Heroic fundraising and huge community support marked the 18th annual YMCA East Surrey Fun Run on Bank Holiday Sunday. More than 1,600 local people turned out for the event in Reigate’s Priory Park. Among them was Henry McDougall, his brother Teddy and their friend Riley Neath. Henry, 14, who is autistic and has severe learning…
Our Yippee and Yip4Youth holiday schemes, based at the YMCA Sovereign Centre in Slipshatch Road, Reigate, had a packed schedule of Easter activities. We provided specialist one to one care for 40% of the children and young people with disabilities who attended and were ably supported by an enthusiastic team of volunteer playworkers. The holiday schemes took place over…
‘Don’t Lose the Plot’ is YMCA East Surrey’s horticultural project working with young people who have additional needs aged between 14-20 in the local area. We have an allotment in Redhill where we grow fruit, vegetables and flowers, teaching young people about the health benefits of growing your own. We also work with Reigate and Banstead…
Five young people from YMCA East Surrey’s WAVES group had the experience of a lifetime in Westminster recently when they were invited to take part in an all-party Parliamentary group on Youth Affairs. Chloe Cooper (13), Raife Eskisan (13), Elle Wastell (13), Sofia Yermo (13) and Phoebe Jenkins (14), all students at Reigate School, travelled…
It’s a sad fact that some people don’t have a choice about where they make their bed at night, no matter what the time of year or how cold the weather. On Saturday 4 March, 44 people slept rough for just one night at YMCA East Surrey’s Sports and Community Centre in Redhill to help raise…
This half term YMCA East Surrey offered an average of 33 spaces per day at the Sovereign Centre on their Yippee and Yip4Youth schemes for children and young people with disabilities. This totalled just under 1,000 hours of short break care across the week, providing support to a huge number of local families.
A big thank you to Nutley Kitchen Gardens for donating equipment for our ‘Don’t Lose the Plot’ gardening project for young people with disabilities.
We are now proud partners with Fare Share. Working in partnership with Tesco we are getting food which is close to its best before date which we are able to use immediately on sessions. This helps to reduce food waste, encourages young people with disabilities to come up with creative ideas to cook a selection…
Over the festive period the young people with disabilities who access our new whole day services celebrated with a trip out to the Beehive in Woodhatch. The young people involved in the trip have spent the last term cooking, preparing and serving food to members of the public and so this time they had the opportunity…
It’s a sad fact that some people don’t have a choice about where they make their bed at night, no matter what the time of year or how cold the weather. YMCA East Surrey is calling on residents to come together and sleep rough for one night in March to support local, homeless young people….
