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Present Drive from Lift
Thank you so much to the management, staff and users of Lift Gym at Chesser in Edinburgh for once again supporting the Youth Agency at Christmas time. Thanks to their generosity we have collected and distributed countless presents, selections boxes, pyjamas, toiletries and treats to the young people and families...
Healthy Respect in the Park
Our staff on streetwork teamed up with Healthy Respect on Friday to support a visit of their mobile drop-in bus at Sighthill Park. The result was a very busy, but productive, night with lots of young people supported to access sexual health services. Accessing support and information relating to sexual...
Pyramid Fun
It’s been a busy few months at the Pyramid. Autumn has well and truly progressed with shorter, colder days but that hasn’t stopped the fun happening – both inside and outside – at the Pyramid. Young people took on the staff in a Beat the Staff Challenge which saw staff...
Our festival favour
It was so exciting to welcome Edinburgh International Fetival and the guys from Spectrum Arts to the Pyramid last week for a special drop-in session. The Youth Agency were lucky enough to be selected for one of the Festival’s festival favours, a programme new for 2021 which takes artists and...
Fabulous Summer of Fun
As autumn beckons we wave goodbye to what was a fabulous summer of fun at the Pyramid drop-in. All of our age groups – even the big kids – got involved and had a super time along with the staff. ...
Healthy Respect bus visit!
It was really fabulous to work with our friends from Chalmers and have the Healthy Respect bus visit our patch recently. While the bus parked up at Sighthill Youth Agency staff were happy to team up with Healthy Respect to provide a great and much valued service for young people...
BBC Scotland Drivetime
It was a pleasure to welcome BBC Radio Scotland Drivetime presenter John Beattie to the Youth Agency last week. We had a wide and varied chat with John discussing the Youth Agency, our place within the community and the difference that youth work can make to the lives of young...
Summertime Fun
Happy summer everyone! Our drop-ins have been operating outside as much as possible. As well as keeping ourselves, the young people and their families as safe as we can it’s been great to enjoy the fresh air, sunshine and play some fantastic old school games. We’ve also been...
Pyramid Rings With Young People Again
It has been wonderful to welcome young people back to the Pyramid drop-in and, for staff, it’s been especially delightful to see them running around and hear the sounds of their excitement, chatter and laughter as they enjoy time with their friends. We’ve been spending our drop-in sessions outdoors getting...
Junior Drop-in Open for Business!
We are beyond delighted (and excited) to be opening our drop-in doors tonight for the first time since December. We’ve enjoyed the many messages, chats and Zooms we’ve had with young people over the last few months but nothing beats meeting our young people face to face and seeing them...
Company Shop Vouchers
Our heartfelt thanks to The Company Shop Group for their generous donation of £1000 in vouchers for their Edinburgh store. Located in Wester Hailes, their shop is just a hop, skip and a jump from our own building and we’re so grateful to them for reaching out to us and...
Pass the Torch – it’s Purple Friday
Today is Purple Friday! Which, of course, means a chance to celebrate the LGBT community, to be the best allies that we can be and just generally to make Scotland a great and inclusive place for everyone to grow up and live. For obvious reasons we can’t get together to...
In Conversation with…..
February is LGBT History Month and, to celebrate, LGBT Youth Scotland and LAYC have hosted a short series of In Conversation With events. Joining LGBT Youth Scotland over three conversations were Scottish Borders Rape Crisis Centre, Healthy Respect and, of course, young people. During these conversations a whole host of...
Merry Christmas from everyone at the Youth Agency
Merry Christmas from everyone at the Youth Agency. It has, of course, been a very strange and, at times, worrying year but we’ve ended it on a high with festive fun and Christmas parties. Sadly Santa wasn’t able to visit this year but our staff were happy to step in...
Partnership Funding in the SW
We are excited to announce we have secured funding from the Scottish Government’s Youth Work Education Recovery Fund. A partnership of youth work organisations, drawn from the South West Edinburgh Youth Providers network, have come together to provide a comprehensive programme of accessible youth work activities up to August 2021. ...
Our Thanks to Arnold Clark
We are very grateful to staff and customers of the Arnold Clark Motorstore in Sighthill, Edinburgh for their recent donation of £854.24. We are particularly grateful to the staff member who nominated the Youth Agency to receive this fantastic donation from their Change for Charity initiative. It means such a...
Streetwork Update
Don’t forget, Youth Agency staff are out and about on streetwork across the area. We’re available to work with any young person on the issues they are facing in their lives. Whether it’s just for a chat, you have something on your mind or feel like you would like some...
Impact of Youth Work – Report Available
The Impact of Community-based Universal Youthwork in Edinburgh is a new report that launched today. This report pulls together research that aims to understand that impact of youth work on young people in Edinburgh and to understand what made that impact possible. At the Youth Agency we’re proud and priveleged...
