{"id":78,"date":"2016-05-18T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:29:31","slug":"engage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/our-mission-partners\/engage\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage Woking Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/engage-logo-140203-1000px-300x128.png\" alt=\"engage-logo-140203-1000px\" width=\"190\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/engage-logo-140203-1000px-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/engage-logo-140203-1000px-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/engage-logo-140203-1000px.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/engage-assembly-2-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"engage-assembly-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/engage-assembly-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/engage-assembly-2.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Engage began in 1995 as Woking Schools Christian Action Trust (shortened to SCAt). \u00a0It was established by <em>Churches Together In Woking<\/em> following Festival \u201994, a Christian mission to Woking which included assemblies in local schools.\u00a0 SCAt celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014 and took the opportunity of a name change to Engage to reflect its current aims and activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>E<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ngage works in about 35 primary schools, two secondary schools and Woking College.\u00a0 It currently employs one full-time worker, Shelly Blunden, and is currently recruiting a second.\u00a0 In addition, for the 2021-22 school year it is employing Carrie Brown as a part time secondary school mentor to help with the many referrals of children with anxiety and other issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since its inception, Engage has presented the good news of Jesus to almost 50,000 children through their assemblies.\u00a0 In addition, the work includes running or helping with primary school assemblies, lunchtime and after-school clubs, storytelling, anger management groups, detached and mentoring work, RE lessons and \u201cIt\u2019s Your Move\u201d transition classes for Year 6 pupils.\u00a0 Engage supports Christian Unions, school staff and general school activities.\u00a0 It works in partnership with local churches and church youth and children\u2019s workers and has a growing link with the Open the Book primary school teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As well as supporting the work financially, St. Andrews hosts the Engage office, located on the ground floor of our church building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more details of Engage visit its web site<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engagewoking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.engagewoking.org<\/span>\u00a0 <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or its Facebook page:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ENGAGEWokingSCAt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Facebook.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Engage&#8217;s publishes 3 or 4 <strong>ENGAGEment<\/strong> newsletters each year. You can read and download the latest editions below:<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5443297y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGAGEment spring 2022<\/a><br \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/538t7y6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGAGEment autumn 2021<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7cv7yv4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGAGEment summer 2021<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2jpx438a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGAGEment spring 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engage began in 1995 as Woking Schools Christian Action Trust (shortened to SCAt). \u00a0It was established by Churches Together In Woking following Festival \u201994, a Christian mission to Woking which included assemblies in local schools.\u00a0 SCAt celebrated its 20th anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/1201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}