News

Following the Scottish Government’s recent announcement relaxing some of the restrictions relating to Covid-19 we are very pleased to say that we are now able to resume some of our face to face services. We have resumed streetwork services this week and our youth workers will be out and about in Wester Hailes, and the surrounding area, to meet with young people in the areas that they use. We have also been given the green light to resume face to face to work with the most vulnerable young people and our 1-1 support service has resumed in school.

In order to comply with the ongoing restrictions our Pyramid drop-in will, for the time being, continue to run online. We look forward to opening the building and welcoming young people back to the drop-in when it is considered safe to do so and are hopeful that this will be some time soon.

Updates to our service delivery will be posted here and on our social media pages. Alternatively, for information on any of our services or if you are a young person who requires support please contact us on:

E: info@youthagency.net

Facebook: WesterHailes YouthAgency

Twitter: @WHYouthAgency

Instagram: westerhailes_youth_agency

Youth Snappers Are Live

15th September 2020

Our young people and staff enjoyed a wonderful collaboration with WHALE Arts last year and earlier this year on a fabulous photography project. For obvious reasons the project had to be put on hold along with our plans to host an exhibition of their work. However, the work they produced ...

Individual Support in School

8th September 2020

We’re really delighted to be back in Forrester High School resuming individual support with young people. While we’ve been busy over the months of lockdown offering individual support and group work online it’s absolutely fantastic to be back in school and to meet young people face to face. Sadly, but ...

Summer Fun

29th July 2020

Someone may have forgotten to tell the weather that it’s summer but here at the Youth Agency we’ve not forgotten. Our summer activities, of course, look a bit different this year but we’ve had lots of fun. We’ve been meeting online with young people throughout the summer and delivering packs ...

Personal Achievement Award

29th June 2020

The Youth Agency was so pleased to participate in the first ever Forrester High Shool virtual award ceremony last week and we were even more delighted to present the Youth Agency Award for Personal Achievement to S6 pupil Jason Howie. We do, of course, celebrate all of the young people ...

A Little Round-Up!

1st June 2020

As we all know it’s been a challenging, strange and confusing time recently. Like everyone, we here at the Youth Agency have been busy adjusting and adapting but we want to reassure everyone that we are very much here, doing what we do and helping to support the young people ...

Comfort Packs Available

14th April 2020

The Youth Agency has comfort packs available to any local young people and families who need them. The packs contain essential hygiene products such as shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant and sanitary products. We will begin distributing these packs from the Youth Agency office on Dumbryden Drive on Wednesday 15 April ...

Close Shave for Staff

14th April 2020

Two of our staff members, Val and Francine, are sporting new super short new hairstyles this week. After being sponsored last week to shave their heads Val and Francine have, to date, raised £2,390 for the Youth Agency. Thank you so much to everyone who donated; your support is massively ...

Thank you Asda!

10th April 2020

A huge thank you to staff at the Asda Straiton store for their support this week. At the Youth Agency we are committed to supporting young people and their families through this difficult time. When it became apparent that some families were struggling to get a variety of hygiene products ...

Virtual Drop-In

6th April 2020

We’re adding to our virtual drop-ins. Our senior drop-in will go ahead as usual. Please see below for details of our junior and intermediate drop-ins. As ever, please contact us if you need more information – Facebook and Twitter details are on the poster or email info@youthagency.co.uk. ...

Work During the Coronavirus Outbreak

3rd April 2020

Like most of us, Youth Agency staff are physically distancing themselves from others BUT we are working from home. Our one to one support service is continuing remotely using a combination of video messaging, telephone calls and messages. Our staff have been in touch with young people who currently use ...