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…
Symonne and Claire study at the University of Worcester and are currently working towards a Youth and Community degree. As part of their placement, they work within our support team on a variety of different projects. One of the main areas which Symonne and Claire work on is resident engagement programmes. Some of this includes employment workshops,…
Hi! My name is Claire. I have been a volunteer at the YMCA Worcestershire for a year now and have been working with the staff at the YMCA to organise the #IAMWHOLE campaign for World Mental Health Day. I am very passionate about working with young people which is why I am studying Youth and…
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,…
On June 24th I woke up to my social media filled with a mountain of posts about the EU Referendum results. It was clear those who voted remain shown signs of anger; fear and sadness, either way, the vote for Brexit will no doubt be a defining political movement. I have seen a lot on…
