Following guidance from the Government and the NHS regarding COVID-19 we will be temporarily suspending all our drop ins and groupwork from 9pm tonight. We will continue to monitor the situation with a view to reopening as soon as it is safe and responsible to do so.
We are working to put in place ways the Youth Agency can continue to support young people. We will have more information on this next week. In the meantime if you are a young person who requires support please contact us on:
Facebook: WesterHailes YouthAgency
Twitter: @WHYouthAgency
LIFT gym collection
A huge and heartfelt thanks to the managers, staff and members of LIFT gym in Chesser for choosing to support the Youth Agency throughout February. With the enthusiastic support of staff, the members of LIFT gym collected box loads of essential toiletries for us to pass on to those in ...
Purple Friday and Rainbow Pancakes
What do you do when Pancake Day happens to be the same week as Purple Friday? Well, here at the Youth Agency that means breaking out our purple photobooth and making rainbow pancakes of course! We had a fantastic week last week dressing up in ...
Sexual health work and more
It’s been a busy start to the new year and the new term here at the Youth Agency. All of our groups have been back up and running for several weeks now and, thanks to the hard work of the young people involved, are making real progress. We’ve also been ...
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to one and all from everyone at the Youth Agency. We look forward to 2020 and sharing our news and adventures with you. ...
Festive frolics
The Pyramid was full of festive fun and merry mayhem this week as our Christmas parties took place. Our younger group enjoyed lots of fun party games but with a festive twist including musical elves, pass the stocking and pin the carrot on the snowman. Our older groups had a ...
Beginning to look like Christmas
As the song says, it’s the most wonderful time of the year and we have had a wonderful time over the last few weeks celebrating Christmas here at the Youth Agency. We’ve enjoyed Christmas parties with all of our groups in school, decorating trees, playing our favourite festive games and ...
Sexual Health Work with S5’s
It’s been a busy few months but we love what we do here at the Youth Agency. We have just completed a block of sexual health work in Forrester High School with all of the amazing S5 pupils. After feedback from the pupils about what they felt they wanted to ...
MVP in school
Our Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) sessions finished in Forrester High School last week. We have so much admiration for our amazing S6 MVP mentors. After weeks of preparation, planning and hard work they successfully delivered MVP sessions to all S1 pupils in school. These sessions focused on bullying and ...
Health Drop-in at WHEC
We are delighted to be in Wester Hailes Education Centre every Thursday to support WHEC pupils. Since August we have been running a health drop-in for pupils. These take place at lunchtime in the reading room and offer information, advice and signposting on a whole range of health related topics, ...
Explosive Science Festival Fun
We always have fun at the Pyramid but this week has been even more exciting than usual as we welcomed our wonderful and talented friends from the Edinburgh Science Festival. They paid a visit to our junior club to whizz us through some amazing science experiments. We learned how to ...
