Amber is 15 years old and a Team GB kickboxer fighting in the 50kg and under category. With Euro championships coming up in September in Macedonia, she has been training at the YMCA Fitness Centre in Redhill.
The children and young people have enjoyed the good weather throughout the week and taken part in a variety of activities as always. Yippee playscheme for children aged 5-11 years with disabilities welcomed 107 attendances from 51 children over four days. They went on a trip to Tilgate Park, where they were fascinated by an…
Thanks to funding from Active Surrey we were able to put on our third Surrey Super Sports event on Friday 26 May 2017. The event was a great success with pupils from local SEN schools being able to take part in a wide range of inclusive activities.
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.
