Lent is just a few weeks away. But instead of cutting out sugar this year, why not use Lent to find some silence? Challenge yourself or your community to cut out the noise in life: go without Facebook or stay silent with us.

Sign up now to help young people transform their lives.

Sinead, a student from Manchester is taking up the challenge. Watch her video here.

Getting sponsored this Lent will help us to transform young lives all over the country. So get sponsored to give up Facebook or stay silent this Lent and help us to do something amazing for young people.

You can sign up right now. There are loads of resources for parishes, primary schools and secondary schools on our resources pages.

Whatever you decide to do will make a huge difference to young people’s lives.

siLENT starts on Ash Wednesday: 5 March. Take part for all, or some of Lent.

The amazing team at St Vincent's Youth Retreat Centre in Whitstable have been getting creative, looking at how to get young people going to their centre involved in Million Minutes. Not only have they been baking Million Minutes biscuits but they have put up a fantastic display on one of their notice boards to track their progress! Here is what they've said:

Southwark Catholic Youth Service and St Vincent’s Centre are supporting Million Minutes and are getting ready for the big ‘be quiet’ in a variety of ways.

In the common room of our retreat centre we now have a board devoted to raising awareness and money for our Million Minutes pledge.

As well as helping us to track the money we have raised, it also has space for the visitors to our centre, old and young alike, to write their pledges and take information and resources away on how to get involved. Our hope is that every school and parish group that join us over the coming months will take away an action pack and join in the big silence with us!

We will also be going into the parish of Whitstable once Lent has begun and are hoping to get more people involved. We’ve been practising our baking skills, pledging a Million Minute biscuit for every pledge in the parish we get.

Our community at St Vincent’s are very proud to be supporting such an exciting initiative, although we are all slightly nervous. As a group who struggle to be quiet at the best of times and who are quite attached to our facebook accounts and mobiles, we know it won’t be easy! Let’s just hope that lots of people will join us on the 8th of May when we will be silent for 24 hours.

Thanks for all your hard work! We can't wait to hear more about your progress and have a taste of the Million Minutes biscuits!