YMCA EDINBURGH
Our YMCA Edinburgh Mission is to empower young people, children, and their families in Leith and across Edinburgh to transform their lives. We offer needs led, relationships focused services for children, young people, and families.
WHO WE ARE
YMCA Edinburgh is part of a global movement that gives all, especially young people, space, and opportunity to belong, contribute and thrive.
We offer a range of tailored programmes including outdoor play, holiday play schemes, sports activities, health and wellbeing groups, mentoring services for young people and
family support.
YMCA Edinburgh is part of an inclusive global Christian movement that gives all, especially young people, space and opportunity to belong, contribute and thrive. We are open to people of all faiths and none.
Whats new
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The Promise – Youth Participation Stories
Cable Wynds, known affectionately as the Banana Flats, is an iconic building in Leith. A diverse community resides there and they have been actively trying to make much-needed improvements to the building, one of the most frequently voiced issues was the lifts in the building often breaking, being unreliable and people getting trapped in them.…
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Friday Night Lights
The project directly responds to local needs by delivering a sports-based youth work session to young people at a crucial point in the week. Following concerns raised by police around levels of anti-social behaviour on Friday evenings and the vulnerabilities local young people have to being led into organised crime, a partnership between the Community…
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Solomon’s Story
Solomon’s Story The project has provided an opportunity for one local young person to develop and grow through a volunteer role in the project. New to Scotland, Solomon faced apprehension in travelling around the community due to concerns over incidents of violence following a stabbing in the local area. With the encouragement of a school-based…