As one of the only Short Break providers offering clubs over the Christmas period, YMCA East Surrey was full to the brim with children and young people with disabilities. At Yippee, the YMCA’s playscheme for children aged 5-11 years with a range of disabilities and complex needs, there was an average of 30 children per day. The local charity…
Glorious winter sunshine brought a record turnout of runners, with 670 Santas pulling on their red hats and white beards for the popular local charity event in Reigate’s Priory Park. More than 560 children and young people took part in the 1-mile race, many raising extra money through sponsorship to help support YMCA East Surrey’s…
Joe, 22, was incredibly proud to be selected to represent YMCA England at the recent Remembrance Day Parade in London. Having used YMCA East Surrey’s services since he was a child, Joe, who has learning difficulties, feels like a part of the YMCA family. “I was pleased and honoured to be chosen,” he said, after…
The Reigate & Banstead Sports Awards, organised by rb sport, were held at the Old Reigatians Rugby Club in Reigate last Monday 3 October. The awards were aimed at recognising and rewarding talented local athletes, coaches, volunteers, teams and clubs for their outstanding achievements in sport over the past 12 months.
More than 90 young people with disabilities had the opportunity to take part in a variety of inclusive activities with YMCA East Surrey on Friday 23 September. Our second Surrey Super Sports day was hosted at the YMCA Sports and Community Centre in Princes Road, Redhill, as part of Reigate and Banstead’s ‘R&Be Active’ week, running…
Thirty-seven fundraising Firewalkers got more than a little hot under the collar at YMCA East Surrey’s Sports and Community Centre on Saturday 16 July. Led by YMCA Head of Children’s Services, Kristina Lastoweckyi, the group walked on a fire bed measuring approximately 20 feet long by 2 feet wide, burning at a mean temperature of 1236…
Ian Burks, Chief Executive of YMCA East Surrey, was delighted to receive a donation of £24,778 from Cllr Joan Spiers who was Mayor of Reigate and Banstead Borough Council during 2015/2016. Cllr Spiers chose to support the local charity during her Mayoral year and the money raised will go towards the new Inclusive Sports Facility…
The UK will welcome a new Prime Minister tomorrow as Theresa May moves into Number 10. Back in April, Mrs May paid a flying visit to YMCA Hillbrook House in Redhill to see how young people are saved from falling into a life of crime. During her brief stopover she took a tour around YMCA Hillbrook House,…
Keen cyclist Antony Read is used to blunt questions from children. “I just tell them I have a special leg because it isn’t an issue to me. It never has been,” he says. Indeed, it didn’t slow him down at all last weekend, when he was one of a group of 12 YMCA East Surrey…
More than 1,500 runners, a big blue bear, superheroes, a sumo wrestler, SpongeBob SquarePants and a two-man plane turned out in Reigate’s sun-soaked Priory Park for the YMCA East Surrey annual Fun Run on Sunday 1 May.
