Long-term experience in the United Kingdom - 2025-2026

Greetings from the Savio House Community, Bollington, the Salesian Residential Youth Retreat Centre of the British Province. I trust you are well.
 
Our retreat centre welcomes over 2000 young people each year for a 3-day residential retreat and we also welcome young lay volunteers, male and female, to live in the community and to work together as a team providing the retreats. Often our volunteers are straight from school (18 years) or after university. It is a great opportunity for them to grow through sharing in community life, to improve their language, youth work skills and experience of Salesian mission.
 
I am writing to you in your role as Youth Ministry Delegate to ask your help in promoting Volunteering at Savio House to your young people, Salesian contacts and animators. Information and application forms can be found on our website: www.saviohouse.org.uk If you are no longer the Youth Ministry Delegate, I would be grateful if you would pass this letter to your successor. Thank you.
 
We have a long history of volunteers at Savio House and are very keen to strengthen our team from the wider Salesian network. This year we are fortunate to have volunteers from Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, and Slovenia. Their presence has really emphasised that some of the ‘magic’ atmosphere and energy of Savio House definitely comes from the volunteers; it is their presence which makes the difference to the community and the retreat experience.
We are currently an international community of SDB and lay volunteers, numbering 9 members from 9 different countries!
 
If you have any suitable young people, can I ask you to encourage them to think about a volunteer year at Savio House for 2025 -26, and to apply as soon as possible. We are able to sponsor Religious Worker Visas to the UK and will process all of that for them. We provide all accommodation for the year (September – July), a subsistence allowance of £50 per week, and travel to and from the UK in September, at Christmas and Easter, and at the end of the year.
 
If you need any further information, please just get in touch, either by email to [email protected] or [email protected] or by Whatsapp to +44 7754 057074.
 
Thank you for whatever support you can give us in our recruitment of volunteers for next year. It is a great opportunity for our Salesian young people.