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The SHAPE of Communities: Strategic Guide 2025 – 2030
This strategy is shaped by what matters most to the people we support. It helps us focus on delivering the services they value, while guiding new ideas and projects. It builds on recent growth and responds to challenges like housing insecurity, mental health, and limited opportunities for young people. In a time of reduced youth funding and change, this plan keeps us rooted in our Christian values and committed to helping young people belong, contribute, and thrive.
Beyond the Brink: The state of funding for youth services
For more than a decade, local authority expenditure on youth services has depleted. YMCA has charted this time and again, highlighting the depth of funding cuts compared to previous years.
YMCA Impact Report 2024
Our Impact Report is brief snapshot of the services provided to communities across the Black Country over the last 12 months.
We are YMCA
This booklet gives an overview of YMCA, who we are, what we do and why we do it.
2023/2024 Annual Accounts
Early Years Funding 23/24
The Early Years National Funding Formula for 2023/24 falls short in supporting early years providers.
Generation Cut 2023
A research report into youth work funding disparities across England and Wales.
Book of Inspirations
This booklet contains stories, poems, songs, bible passages and prayers that have for different reasons been a source of inspiration for 20 YMCA people, young and old, across the UK and beyond. We hope that you will use this booklet to stop, think, and give time for your Creator to be a present part of your day … and that through this encounter, you too will find inspiration.
Inside the Cost of Living Report
This report explores the experiences of young people living on welfare benefits during the cost of living crisis.
Data Protection Policy