St Margaret’s

ST MARGARET’S · RAINHAM

FIND YOUR PLACE.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Bring your ideas, your care and your enthusiasm.
Help make St Margaret’s a place where people feel welcome,
young people flourish and our community comes together.

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A ground-level view of St Margaret’s church tower framed by trees
OPEN OPPORTUNITY

HELP YOUNG PEOPLE FIND THEIR VOICE

SESSIONAL YOUTH GROUP LEADER

Plan activities, build relationships and help secondary-school-aged young people discover a love of God, themselves and each other through XP3.

3 HOURS WEEKLY – TERM TIME ONLY£45 PER SESSION

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NOT SURE WHERE YOU FIT?

You don’t need to have it all worked out. Tell us what you enjoy and what you’d love to bring to church life. Let’s start a conversation.

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ST MARGARET’S · RAINHAM

SESSIONAL YOUTH GROUP LEADER

OPEN OPPORTUNITY

THIS ROLE IS OPEN. PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH FOR THE LATEST APPLICATION ARRANGEMENTS AND CLOSING DATE.

JOB TITLE:   Sessional Youth Group Leader

LOCATION:  St. Margaret’s Church, Rainham

HOURS:   3 HOURS WEEKLY – TERM TIME ONLY

SALARY:  £45 PER SESSION

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Preparing and delivering a varied programme of activities for young people who attend  XP3,  which meets on a Monday evening, and is a group for secondary school-aged young people.  It meets during term time from 7 – 8.30 pm. 

XP3 stands for the three experiences we hope every young person will discover with us:

The successful candidate will need to be a practising Christian.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

WHEN AND WHERE YOU WILL BE DOING IT:

You will be working in St. Margaret’s Church, Rainham.  There will be occasional outdoor activities.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE (DBS) REQUIREMENTS:

You will require an Enhanced DBS check and barred list.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

Safeguarding:  Basic awareness, Foundation, Leadership, Domestic Abuse.

Other relevant training as required, ensuring all activities are in line with good safeguarding and health and safety policies and procedures.

OTHER INFORMATION:

There is a genuine Occupational Requirements under the Equality Act 2010 for this post, that the successful candidate is a practising Christian as this post carries with it the specific responsibility for promoting a Christian identity.

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ST MARGARET’S · RAINHAM

PRIVACY POLICY

LAST UPDATED: 19 OCTOBER 2026

We want you to feel welcome at St Margaret’s and confident about how your personal information is used. This notice explains how we handle information connected with rainhamchurch.co.uk, church communications, enquiries, bookings and giving.

QUESTIONS OR A PRIVACY REQUEST?

Email office@rainhamchurch.co.uk, telephone 01634 362023, or write to the Church Office, St Margaret’s Church, High Street, Rainham, Kent ME8 7JH.

1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St Margaret’s Church, Rainham is responsible for personal information used for the parish website and parish administration. “We”, “us” and “our” in this notice refer to the parish acting through its PCC. Please send privacy enquiries to the Church Office using the details above.

Clergy, the Diocese of Rochester and external organisations may be separately responsible for some records or services, including statutory registers, safeguarding casework and transactions you make directly with another provider. Where that applies, their own privacy information also explains their responsibilities.

2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE RECEIVE?

We normally receive information from you. We may also receive relevant details from someone arranging an activity on your behalf, a booking or giving provider, church officers or authorised organisations. If we receive information about you indirectly, we provide privacy information as required by law, unless a lawful exception applies.

3. WHY WE USE IT AND OUR LAWFUL BASES

You do not have to give us optional information. If you do not provide the information needed to answer an enquiry, complete a booking or administer Gift Aid, we may be unable to provide that particular service. We do not use the website to make solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on you.

4. SENSITIVE INFORMATION, CHILDREN AND SAFEGUARDING

Information about religious beliefs, health or certain other matters has additional protection. Where we need it, we must identify both a lawful basis and an appropriate additional legal condition. Depending on the circumstances, that may include explicit consent, the lawful activities of a religious not-for-profit body, or conditions supporting safeguarding and other legal duties. Membership of a church is not a blanket permission to use or share sensitive information.

Please only include information that is relevant to your request. Avoid sending sensitive information through the newsletter form. Safeguarding concerns should go through the reporting routes on our Safeguarding page, so the appropriate people can respond.

When an activity involves children, we handle their information with particular care and seek appropriate information and permissions from a parent or person with parental responsibility where needed. Information may need to be shared without consent where there is a lawful safeguarding or safety reason.

5. NEWSLETTERS AND YOUR CHOICES

Our website newsletter form sends the name and email address you enter to our existing Mailchimp audience using a confirmation process. You can unsubscribe using the link in an email or by contacting the Church Office. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing.

We may retain the minimum information needed to respect an unsubscribe request and avoid adding you again by mistake. Mailchimp may process delivery, engagement and technical information in accordance with the features enabled for our account and its own privacy information. A subscription does not mean that all church correspondence is marketing: we may still need to respond to your enquiry or send essential information about a booking.

6. WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH

Access within the parish is limited to people who need information for their responsibilities, such as authorised clergy, staff, trustees and volunteers. Service providers may process information to host, secure and operate the website, send email or support administration.

Services used or linked from this site include WordPress.com/Automattic and Jetpack, Mailchimp, Humanitix, MyHallWizard, JustGiving, Vimeo, Google Maps and churchyard or heritage services. Some act on our instructions; others are independent organisations responsible for their own processing. Which organisation receives information depends on the service you choose to use.

For example, an event organiser may receive booking information from Humanitix, a donation provider may share donation or Gift Aid details with the benefiting charity, and a hall booking provider may pass relevant booking details to the venue. Payment details should be entered only through the relevant payment provider’s own secure process.

We may share relevant information with HMRC, diocesan or church bodies, safeguarding professionals, regulators, insurers, professional advisers or law-enforcement bodies where we have a lawful reason or are required to do so. We do not sell personal information.

7. INFORMATION PROCESSED OUTSIDE THE UK

Some hosting, email, booking, payment and embedded-content providers operate internationally. Where we arrange a transfer of personal information outside the UK, it must have an appropriate lawful safeguard, such as an applicable adequacy arrangement or approved contractual safeguards with any further measures required. Providers acting independently describe their own international processing in their privacy notices.

You can ask the Church Office for information about the safeguards relevant to your information. We do not promise that every service stores all information exclusively in the UK.

8. COOKIES, LOCAL STORAGE AND WEBSITE STATISTICS

Cookies and similar technologies can store or read information on your device. Different rules apply depending on their actual purpose; a technology is not essential simply because it is useful to us.

You can clear stored website data or change cookie settings in your browser. Restricting storage may affect preferences or some functions. Use any provider or website privacy choices offered for the service concerned, and contact us if you want to object to our use of information for statistics or need help understanding a particular technology. Browser controls alone do not replace consent where consent is legally required.

9. LINKS, EMBEDS AND SHARING

Our site links to independent websites and includes some embedded services. Their operators have their own privacy notices and settings. Please check these before submitting personal information to them. Opening an embed can make a connection to its provider even if you have not submitted a form.

The Share button uses your device’s sharing facility where available. Its alternatives let you copy a page link or open email, Facebook or WhatsApp. Copying a link does not itself send a message; choosing an external sharing service means that service receives the information you choose to share and relevant technical information. Take care not to share private information in a public post.

10. PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMING AND PUBLIC RECORDS

Church news, event coverage and online services may include photographs, voices or video recordings. How these are used depends on the purpose, the circumstances and the appropriate permissions or other lawful basis. Please contact us if you have questions about an image or recording of you or a child you are responsible for, or want to request a review of published material.

Parish and churchyard material may include historical names, dates and plot references. UK data-protection rights relate to living individuals; historical records can nevertheless include information about living people. We consider correction and privacy requests, while taking account of archival, statutory and other legitimate requirements. A request to remove material does not automatically require deletion of an official register.

11. HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION

We keep information only for as long as needed for its purpose and applicable legal or record-keeping duties. The period depends on the type of record, whether an enquiry or matter is still active, and whether there is a safeguarding, tax, contractual, archival or legal-claims reason to retain it.

Contact us for the retention criteria or period relevant to a particular record. Backups and restricted records may remain until their normal expiry or where retention is legally required.

12. HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION

We use appropriate organisational and technical measures, including access controls, secure connections and the security facilities provided by our systems. Access should be proportionate to the person’s role. We assess and respond to suspected personal-data breaches, including notifying the regulator or affected people where required by law. No website or email service can guarantee absolute security.

13. YOUR RIGHTS

Depending on the circumstances, you can ask to access your personal information, correct it, have it erased, restrict its use, receive certain information in a portable format, or object to processing. You can withdraw consent where processing relies on it, and you can object to direct marketing at any time.

These rights have conditions and exceptions. For example, we may need to retain statutory, safeguarding or tax records. Contact office@rainhamchurch.co.uk with enough detail to help us find the relevant information. We may need proportionate confirmation of your identity. Requests are normally free and are handled within the applicable legal time limits, usually one calendar month, with permitted extensions or adjustments explained where relevant.

14. QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS

Please contact the Church Office if you are concerned about how your information is used. We will consider your complaint and keep you informed. You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO); you do not have to complete our complaints process before contacting the regulator.

CONTACT THE ICO

15. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

We review this notice when our services, practices or legal requirements change. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Where a change materially affects how we use your information, we provide further information or seek fresh consent where required.

Parish Paper comments

If you submit a comment, we store the name and message you provide with the story and submission date. Church administrators review it before publication. Only approved comments are displayed publicly. You do not need to provide an email address. Please do not include private contact details or sensitive information. Contact the Church Office if you would like your comment removed.