News

We are delighted to now be operating all of our services supporting young people. The drop-in continues to run for all age ranges and, with guidance relaxed, we are able to open the clubs to more young people whilst also enjoying an ever wider range of activities.

In addition, our staff are out and about on streetwork in Wester Hailes, Sighthill, Broomhouse and Longstone and we are continuing to provide a much needed individual support service to help the most vulnerable young people.

We are aware that Covid-19 is still very much around and are acting accordingly. As before, we continue to run our services with enhanced mitigations to help keep all of the young people, their families and our staff safe.

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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 ...

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, ...

Youth Agency Award for Personal Achievement

5th June 2019

As ever, we were absolutely delighted to present the Wester Hailes Youth Agency Personal Achievement Award at the Forrester High School annual award ceremony which took place yesterday. We love to see young people fulfill their potential however, The Wester Hailes Youth Agency Personal Achievement Award is not all about ...

Lloyd’s Charity Collection

14th May 2019

Many thanks to Lloyd’s Banking Group, and their generous staff, for their recent support. At their most recent charity collection their staff donated and helped to raise almost £150 to support our work with young people. With matched funding from Lloyd’s, we were fortunate enough to receive almost £300 in ...