Welcome to the News section of our website – here you will find a selection of our latest activities and news. Anyone interested in learning more about our work can use the contact page, email us at info@youthagency.co.uk or call us on 0131 442 4015.
The Pyramid is Open!
After the long months of lockdown we were delighted to finally open the Pyramid drop-in and welcome young people back in to the building last week. It was, of course, fantastic to keep up with so many of our young people virtually during lockdown but nothing beats being able to...
Streetwork Update
Just a reminder for local young people that Youth Agency staff are still out and about on streetwork. We’re out several times a week covering the extended area from Broomhouse and Sighthill up to Clovenstone and from Longstone along to Calders and all areas in between! Our staff are happy...
Youth Snappers Are Live
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
