As of Tuesday 1st September, we will reopen our community centres in Redditch Malvern and Upton. This will enable our centre activities to resume including room hire, youth clubs and community group meetings. If you are looking to attend a particular event please check with the event organiser for further details. We are blessed at…
Young people have volunteered over 600 hours for local causes in Worcestershire as part the NCS keep doing good initiative which aims to reach 1 million hours. As the traditional programme that was planned for this summer couldn’t go ahead, young people decided to pledge their time to support their local community. Over 40 young…
We joined forces with funders, local partners and the community to spread a little joy this week. Recognising that this a summer like no other for Worcestershire families, the charity joined forces with Worcestershire Children’s First, Worcestershire County Council and youth and community partners across the districts. YMCAs Youth Work, Nursery and Employability teams planned…
As we welcome back more children to our nurseries after lockdown, Our Early Years and Childcare teams have been taking all the necessary steps to keep children, parents, and our staff team safe. We are following Government and NHS guidelines in all our nursery and childcare settings and have gathered valuable experience in our nurseries…
For Mental Health Awareness Week YMCA spreads sunflower seeds across Worcestershire to our nurseries, housing, youth and employability programmes. The campaign aims to spread joy and represents the importance of looking after our mental health. By nurturing the plants we enable them to flourish. Those taking part have taken photos and posted on our social…
We are very excited to announce that the Great YMCA Bake Off is back. Great YMCA Bake Off is a community event that invites all bakers to bring there bakes along on the day to be judged to become Worcestershire’s Star Baker. There are 4 categories you can enter in to classic bake, cupcake creation,…
It is is a sad to think that young people who live in Worcestershire go to bed each night and might be hungry. When more than ever families are accessing food banks because they can’t afford food for their family. 152 young people stay at YMCA each night many of them have experienced crisis and…
YMCA Chaplaincy provides pastoral, emotional and spiritual support to staff, residents and anyone who has contact With Worcestershire YMCA. This care and support are open to all, regardless of faith, background or circumstance and is confidential and non-judgemental. Our Chaplains seek to make Christ and His values present throughout the YMCA by listening to people,…
Shaw Trust, in partnership with St Basil’s and YMCA, was awarded £1.5m by The Big Lottery Fund in 2014 to support young people in Worcestershire who are struggling the most to find career opportunities. Many of the young people on the programme have experienced barriers to work such as social exclusion, learning difficulties and homelessness….
