During our World Culture Day celebrations on 21 May 2022 which were held at our new £8.5M ‘City Gateway’ YMCA centre in Wolverhampton, we were presented with our certificate of achievement for the new international standard ISO 30415 in Human Resource Management: Diversity and Inclusion.
Last week young people and mentors attended YMCA City Gateway for monthly mentor/Mentee mixer as part of our Y’s Girls Mentoring programme. Offering both young people and volunteers the opportunity to get to know each other and engage in group activities. The session was attended by…
PLEASE DONATE Our approach has now changed to Financial Donations only – YMCA Europe can get supplies to affected people, much quicker and more efficiently. We’d like to wholeheartedly thank everyone who have brought physical aid donations to our local ‘drop-off’ locations in support of our Ukrainian Refugee appeal. There has been a huge response….
UPDATED 14/3/21 – Our approach has now changed to Financial Donations only – YMCA Europe can get supplies to affected people, much quicker and more efficiently. Please make your donations here. Working with our partners across the Black Country You can drop off you items at the following YMCA locations Monday – Friday between 9am…
YMCA Black Country Group stands in solidarity with our friends and colleagues from YMCA Ukraine as the awful scenes from Kyiv and across the country are beamed across our media platforms. In this VIDEO, Viktor Serbulov, General Secretary of YMCA Ukraine describes the shock of the unprovoked Russian invasion of a democratic European country, and…
Download the Report here Research released today by YMCA reveals that not only have funding cuts now reached £1.1bn (a real-terms fall of 74% since 2010/11) but annual spend per head on 5-to-17-year-olds in England has plummeted from £158 in 2010/11 to just £37 in 2020/21.
We are proud to be celebrating Black History Month, which celebrates the rich history, achievements and vital contribution of black African and Caribbean people to our shared history. In 1915 at the Wabash Avenue YMCA in Chicago, Carter G Woodson researched and celebrated the achievements of black Americans, this led to him starting ‘Negro History…
Ending Universal Credit uplift will disproportionately affect vulnerable young people in their housing, working and living experiences YMCA research into government figures today reveals the true extent of potential damage to some of the most vulnerable among the 918,000* young people currently claiming Universal Credit if the £20 a week uplift is removed on 6…
YMCA Black Country Group join a collaboration of YMCA’s celebrating securing a 4-year contract to deliver the RAF Benevolent Fund’s flagship Airplay programme! Airplay is approaching its 11th birthday and is designed to help meet the social, recreational and developmental needs of over 11,000 children and young people of the serving RAF family. YMCA Black Country…
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for a number of awards at this year’s #YouthMatters Awards and we’d love for you to show your support; it takes less than two minutes to vote and you could swing it in our favour. You can find out more about the categories and our nominees below; Young…
