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2014 was a brilliant year for Student Linkup. Here is a little look back to a few of our highlights and best bits.  - 92% of students who used Student Linkup found and stuck with a church at uni (We have now linked up well over 20,000 students since Student Linkup launched)  - The Student Linkup app was released  - Student Linkup Sunday ran...

A few years ago I watched the London fireworks. Not on tv, not from a distance and certainly not from a warm house overlooking London. I watched them up close and personal. I was stood directly opposite the London eye for 5 hours in the absolute freezing cold waiting for midnight. When midnight came the atmosphere was electric and the fireworks were...

When I was a student I was hugely passionate about a whole range of issues, but slowly I began to realise that I hadn't always been strategic about where I had turned up the volume. I’d been loud about dropping the debt. I’d been loud about making poverty history. I’d been loud about stopping the traffic and climate chaos. But gradually...

This Christmas and New Year has seen a lot of change in my life. Change that I didn't necessarily expect. Don’t get me wrong it's exciting, but it got me thinking…how is it possible for me to do this? I heard God’s voice so clearly in that instant…Go in the strength that you have.  I wonder if there is anything facing you...

When I lick my finger and hold it up in prayer to try and get a sense for where God is moving and his Spirit is blowing I believe student mission is about to get a whole lot more exciting. I sense that holy breeze coming from two directions. Firstly, Christian students capturing and embodying the adventurous and wild Spirit,...

Your students that headed to uni this year will be making the long train journey back to you to celebrate Christmas. It's the end of the first term, which is normally the most exciting and draining. Give them a quick text to check in with them and to invite them over for a cup of coffee. It might be the little encouragement they...

I think it sounds a bit like a computer game or an Indiana Jones film, but in actual fact ‘Temples and Towers’ is an exercise I made up when thinking through the culture we live in and the universities we are placed in as the people of God. I’ve ended up using this exercise on the road with bunches of...