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:

E: info@youthagency.net

Facebook: WesterHailes YouthAgency

Twitter: @WHYouthAgency

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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 ...

LIFT gym collection

9th March 2020

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

3rd March 2020

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

17th February 2020

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

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. ...

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 ...