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Cleeve House Youth Program (CHYP) England is designed to give you the most creative time of your life. Based on your personal interests you can spend time achieving what you barely even dared to dream before.
CHYP has come about through the understanding of the need for our church youth to do a year of public service and to provide them with a wider option of programs to take part in, while at the same time giving them the opportunity to contribute to the movement at large especially in a creative way. CHYP provides a transition period between Family life and college challenges. It encompasses the components of internship, study and volunteering.

The program consists of 4 elements: Internal Development, Event Management, House Improvement and your Interest Development Project. It provides a unique opportunity for participants to challenge themselves and grow internally while being supported by a caring family structure.

“CHYP helped me a lot with developing my faith and becoming more public minded. I experienced the incredible feeling of working together as a team for a higher purpose. My time on CHYP also gave me experience in the fields of service, house maintenance, and renovation. I learned that you don’t always need a collage degree to make a difference.” –Anna Freeland, former CHYP member.

Cleeve House Youth Program is and ongoing program, so it is never too late to apply.

For more information, feel free to contact Cleeve House staff: info@cleeve-house.com

Hey everyone – Alex Shaw giving a report here on MBU FC’s last two games and its interesting turn of events. On Saturday 31^st October we played a team of big Irishman called ULA. We had already lost 3 games in a row so there was a lot of tension built up already for this game. We really needed a win. At first we started off OK with good possession of the ball and early attacks but after a swift counter they scored giving them an early lead. An all too prevalent formula since we have never had the lead before in previous games. Immediately this changed the mood of the players as we tried desperately to gain a goal back. This came to no avail as they scored again which really created a lot of stress and tension in the team as we thought in our heads “We’re gonna lose again!”. Our team members were really starting to get agitated with the other team and with each other. As the game went on we got worse and worse, our heads started bobbing down and we become more disunited.  By half time the score line was 3-0.

At half time no one really knew what to say. The performance was bad, and we felt like crap. Steven tried to give us a talk to get our heads up but in that situation not much could change it. The second half was quite a massacre. We were fighting with each other, there was no teamwork. This resulted in one of the players storming off the field leaving the whole team in disarray. At the end of the game we managed to pull ourselves together a bit more and score a goal leaving the score line at 7-1 by full-time. Quite a thrashing. The end was really emotional for the team. Many people released a lot of inner frustrations and pains with some even saying they don’t want to play for this team any more. I felt this couldn’t be it, we’ve got to keep going.

There is a saying that when you hit rock bottom the only way is up. We could see the weakness in our team from the last game – we needed to become more of a “team”. So the Friday before the next game we had a movie night together in LG; 300 - oww yea. So Saturday 7^th November we had our first cup game against a team called SSS FC. That day the team felt so much more relaxed, as if we had nothing to lose. The game started and within a few minutes Toby scored the first goal. We had never been in the lead before. Suddenly the whole team got uplifted and was on fire. Everyone was playing with smiles on their faces as quickly the score line became 6-0.

Even we hadn’t been trashed this badly before. This was a better result than we could have hoped for. At half time instead of seeing downed faces, you saw a team of joy and energy. There was no need for a talk this time we just had to keep playing the way we were.

In the second half we became more complacent and so it wasn’t a massacre in the second half. The game ended with a score line of 8-3.VICTORY!! We had won our first game. Afterwards we all want to McDonald’s and had a nice victory meal. Through really fighting through we could finally achieve a great victory. Hopefully from here we can keep going up.

Gathering together before the crashes....

Early arrivers

Julian's Protec Extra 300L 3D aerobatic flyer

A group of us met at Cleeve House for a model flying weekend. We had helicopters, a 3D aerobatic plane and gliders. We decided to take a group photo BEFORE we started – which was just as well, since none of us escaped without a crash!

Julian’s Protec Extra 300L 3D aerobatic flyer really flew well – mostly because the pilot knew how to fly well too! The plane is made from lasercut Depron with a brushless direct drive motor. Once the sun had set on the first day, we settled down to watch The Aviator, based on Howard Hughes’ life story. The second day was a little more windy, but we still managed to get out a few times. Just to be in the countryside was great!

There will be another meeting this summer. Contact us if you want to join in!