Please note we need to know your biological sex for room allocation purposes. By law we can only allocate shared rooms to people of the same biological gender.

Note: If your coach of choice is not available, you will be placed on the pilgrimage waiting list.

Travel & Insurance

Travel to Lourdes will be by coach. The total cost of the Youth Pilgrimage is £720. This will include: travel insurance, full-board accommodation in Lourdes, 2 polo shirts. (Not included are cancellation insurance and any meals taken on the journey.) You could reduce this cost by fund-raising, so find out what events you could hold in your Parish, school or college.

It is highly recommended that individuals take out their own travel insurance.

For those travelling with the Youth Pilgrimage, the organisers have a duty of care, for standards to be maintained, ALL who go as part of the Youth Pilgrimage need to accept and comply at all times with the commitment specified on the next page.

Safeguarding

I am committed to protecting and safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults from abuse.

I understand that to knowingly give false information or to omit information will be considered as a breach of trust and could result in the cancellation of any agreements made.

I declare that any information I have given in this application is correct.

I understand that if I am subsequently convicted of any criminal offence, I must declare this to the Director of the Youth Pilgrimage.

I also understand that this position may require an enhanced DBS disclosure, and those details will be entered on a national Safeguarding confidential database and retained indefinitely.

Please tick here to confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the safeguarding section above.

Commitment

I acknowledge that I have read, or can access at a later date, the Code of Conduct for all Liverpool Archdiocesan Pilgrims contained in the Rights, Roles and Responsibilities document.

Where the Liverpool Archdiocese Youth Pilgrimage feels it necessary, failure to meet the obligations of the Youth Pilgrimage Safeguarding Policy and/or Youth Pilgrimage Code of Conduct and/or Youth Pilgrimage Commitment may lead to you being placed on the Pilgrimage Guidance Pathway.

Please tick here to confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the commitment section above.

Passports and Visas

I acknowledge it is my responsibility to check my passport expiry date, my EU entry/exit status (ETIAS), and if I need a visa before travel to France; and accept that refunds cannot be given for failure to check passport, ETIAS and visa status.

Please tick here to confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the Passports and Visas section above.

GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018

In accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018, I give my consent for any information contained in this application to be processed and stored. The information provided is being used for the administration of the Youth Pilgrimage. It is considered the legitimate interest of the organisation and is necessary for compliance.

Please tick here to confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the Data Protection section above.

Use of your information

Information provide in this application will be held for the pilgrimage year (which ends on the day new application forms go online for the succeeding pilgrimage).

Contact information will be shared with the coach leader for the coach of which you have applied. And may be shared with other parties associated with the Lourdes Youth Pilgrimage and relevant and appropriate diocesan bodies and authorities.

Young people that require DBS certificates may be contacted by the diocesan safeguarding team through the year to ensure the form is complete before travel. This could be during exam time and is unavoidable if forms are to be processed before summer.

Information provided may be used to contact you by email, text, letter or phone.

For more information on how your data may be used and our retention policy please see the Privacy Policy.

Please tick here to confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the Use of your information section above.

Download a copy of the commitment

Thank you for choosing to pay your deposit by cash or cheque. Please read the steps below and follow them very carefully. These steps are really important to ensure that we're able to match up your deposit and application.



Prepare your £100 cash or cheque and place it into an envelope (please make cheques out to "AOL Youth Pilgrimage Account").




On a piece of paper, write your unique deposit code and place it in the envelope.
(It's at the bottom of the screen, we've also emailed it to you if you'd like to do it later - please check your spam).




Post it or bring it to our address:

Janice Barton
Lourdes Youth Pilgrimage
Lowe House, 99 Crab Street
St Helens
Merseyside
WA10 2BE


Your unique deposit code:

Thank you !

You're all done for now, and you will receive an email confirmation for your deposit payment shortly - please check your spam.

Your details have been passed onto the pilgrimage team who will review your application and get in touch with you in due course. If your coach choice is unavailable, for any reason, you will be contacted and placed onto the pilgrimage waiting list.

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