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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.

For more information on our services or to contact us please visit:

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30th April 2019
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Fun at the Science Fest

12th April 2019
The Youth Agency had a truly fabulous day out at the Edinburgh Science Festival this week. We dropped in on a few of their free activities to learn, experiment and have fun.  We learned all about blood and how different blood groups are identified, we had a go at extracting ...
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Busy March

28th March 2019
It’s been a busy month at The Youth Agency.  As well as our drop-in, health drop-in and individual support work we have been working in Forrester High School with all S2 and S4 pupils covering their sexual health and relationship sessions. In total we have worked with over 250 pupils ...
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Helping to turn Scotland purple!

26th February 2019
We had a great time last week celebrating LGBT History Month and helping to turn Scotland purple.  We threw ourselves wholeheartedly into LGBT Youth Scotland’s Purple Friday celebrations to show our  support for LGBT communities and to stand up to homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in whatever form it may take. ...
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Merry Christmas from all at the Youth Agency

21st December 2018
Merry Christmas from all at the Youth Agency. We’ve had a wonderful week celebrating with lots of young people at our drop-in and different groups. We wish everyone a happy and peaceful New Year and look forward to seeing everyone again in January! ...
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S5 Sexual Health

15th November 2018
Our block of S5 sexual health work in Forrester High School wrapped up this week.  We spent a total of four weeks with each of the five classes looking at healthy relationships, confidence in decision-making relating to sexual health and relationships, risk taking behaviour, STI’s and ways to keep ourselves ...
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MVP Success

14th November 2018
Our Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) programme is nearly complete in school for another year.  Our S6 mentors have worked exceptionally hard over the last 12 weeks learning and practicing MVP lessons.  They have spent the last two weeks working with S1 pupils to deliver inspiring lessons to their younger ...
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Parliamentary Recognition

14th November 2018
The Youth Agency is delighted to receive support and recognition from our local MSP Gordon MacDonald who lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament to acknowledge our achievement in gaining the LGBT Youth Scotland Bronze Charter Mark.  The full motion read as follows: Motion S5M-14370: Gordon MacDonald, Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish ...
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LGBT Bronze Charter Award

17th October 2018
The Youth Agency were so delighted to recently become the first voluntary organisation in South West Edinburgh to be awarded the LGBT Youth Scotland Bronze Charter Mark.  We were presented with our award in the Pyramid.  As promised here are some photos of the event….. Thanks to Ann Marriott who ...
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Our Rainbow Logo!

11th October 2018
You may have noticed that the banner logo on our website has changed.  This exciting, and colourful, change is for one day only and is to celebrate two significant events, both of which are happening today. First up, it’s #Nationalcomingout day and the Youth Agency are delighted to be showing ...
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Avatar Stepping Stones North Edinburgh @ssnorthed ·
August 16

New group work programme live today!Please RT.

If a family you know would like to come along to a group they can message us on any of our social
...channels or get in touch via our info email address.

#northedinburgh #groupwork #earlylearning #peersupport

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August 16

Good luck to everyone starting back at school tomorrow, especially all the new S1 pupils.

We hope everyone has a fab first day and can’t wait to
...hear all about it. 😊 2

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August 15

Another meeting of the Youth & Children’s Work Strategy writing group today ✏️ next stage is consultation with wider sector. Thanks to ...@WHYouthAgency @CitadelYCLeith @PiltonYouthProj @healthy_respect @NHS_Lothian @Edinburgh_CC

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