News

After the challenges of lockdown we are delighted that we have been able to work with young people face to face across all of our services. We are continuting with strictly applied enhanced cleaning and other mitigations to help protect all of the young people, their families and our staff from Covid-19.

Our drop-in continues to run in the Pyramid and staff are still out on streetwork in Wester Hailes and the surronding areas. We are also continuing with our individual support service to help the most vulnerable young people and those needing a bit of extra support as we move through this challenging time.

We will continue to post any updates to our service delivery 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:

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Summer of Fun

9th September 2019

We’ve enjoyed a sunny summer of fabulous fun at the Pyramid. As well as our usual activities the young people have enjoyed lots of cooking (and eating!) and our younger participants also enjoyed lots of outdoor play to make the most of the sunny weather. As the weather turns cooler, ...