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Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the announcement by the Scottish Government that we are now operating at above tier 4 restrictions The Youth Agency will be moving all of our youth work services online.   This will include our individual support, groupwork and drop-in services.

As soon as we are able we will resume face to face work with young people.  We are obviously keen for this to happen as soon as possible but will only take this step when it is safe to do so and with the consent of the relevant authorities.  In the meantime, we hope that everyone stays safe and healthy.

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

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

23rd December 2019
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. ...
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Festive frolics

Festive frolics

20th December 2019
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 ...
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Beginning to look like Christmas

Beginning to look like Christmas

17th December 2019
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 ...
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Sexual Health Work with S5’s

4th December 2019
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 ...
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MVP in school

MVP in school

28th November 2019
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 ...
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Health Drop-in at WHEC

11th November 2019
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, ...
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Explosive Science Festival Fun

Explosive Science Festival Fun

24th October 2019
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 ...
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S6 Sexual Health

24th October 2019
We’ve just completed an 8 week block of sexual health work with S6 pupils from Forrester High School.  This work covered a whole range of topics including healthy relationships, risk taking behaviour, STIs and contraception designed to keep young people informed and safe.  We worked hard to cement the knowledge ...
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25 Years Service

25 Years Service

24th September 2019
Massive congratulations to our fantastic manager, Val, who, this month, is celebrating 25 years of working at the Youth Agency. From the staff, partners and the thousands of young people who have worked with the Youth Agency in this time many thanks for the years of dedication, hard work and, ...
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MVP Schools Work

MVP Schools Work

16th September 2019
It’s great to be back to MVP work.  After a successful launch with the whole of S6 at the start of term we have been busy over the last few weeks preparing our mentors to work with their S1 peers. MVP is the short name for Mentors in Violence Prevention ...
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January 10

We know it’s a really hard time for everyone right now, and the news is generally very bleak.

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January 7

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January 7

Happy New Year!

We realise this isn’t quite the start to 2021 we were all hoping for but we are excited to announce that the Pyramid Drop-in and
... one to one support services will resume online from next week.

All the details are below.

Stay safe everyone 💜
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