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                                      Employment Vacancies

    Chaplain to Bolton Town Centre        

 Bolton Town Centre Chaplaincy is looking for an experienced and pastorally gifted part time chaplain (2.5 days per week), based in Bolton town centre, to work alongside the retail, business and civic community.  You will take the lead in developing and delivering a high quality chaplaincy service, which has forged excellent links with the local community over the past four years.

Your varied and challenging role will range from pastoral care to project planning.  As an excellent communicator at all levels, you will have the ability to motivate and organise an existing team of committed volunteers, as well as relating to a wide range of staff employed in the town centre.  Someone who enjoys working beyond the boundaries of your faith community, you will care for those of all faiths and none, while engaging with people in an open, inclusive way.  You will be good at team working and at exploring how theology relates to the world beyond the church.

Full support will be provided by the proactive Management Group, which has members from the churches and the wider town centre community.

Remuneration Package: Circa £25,000 per annum (pro rata) or to match denominational package

To request full application pack please apply                        

in writing or by email to:                                                          David Tomlinson

Chair of Management Group

Bolton Town Centre Chaplaincy

                                                                                                c/o The Victoria Hall

                                                                                                Knowsley Street

                                                                                                Bolton

                                                                                                BL1 2AS

                                                                                                victoria.hall1@virgin.net         

 Closing Date for receipt of completed applications:       Friday 15^th August

Interviews for short listed applicants:                               Thursday 22^nd August

Voluntary Vacancies

Project promoted by Christians Together in Bolton Town Centre, the Town Centre Chaplaincy and Bank Street Unitarian Chapel

Night Time Cafe

OPENING on 5^th July 2008

at Bank Street Chapel, Bolton

You can be a vital part of this in one or more of the following ways:

ü  Be a trained regular helper every/any Saturday 8pm till 2am during the pilot period starting July till the end of September OR be on our rota for just part of these evenings according to your own availability (we need people to serve in the tea bar/to be good listeners/to offer practical support)

ü  Spread the word amongst night clubbers and visitors to town centre bars to let them know we are there for them if they need a drink of coffee or tea or a piece of toast to help them sober up! We’ll supply “spikys” to protect their drink bottles from being tampered with (Provided FREE on our opening night)

ü   Include the work of the Night Time Cafe in your prayers – that a safe space will be created for young people in the town centre on Saturday nights

 For more information about Bolton ’s Night Time Cafe

 leave a message on our special phone line:

07593538721