What does YMCA Norfolk do?

The current YMCA hostel at 46-48 St. Giles Street, Norwich provides: accommodation for 90 people in single study bedrooms; 63,000 meals a year for residents, members and guests. It offers all residents an intensive life and social skills programme to include employment advice and pastoral guidance.

Future plans are underway for two new centres. One site is in Norwich city centre near the Bus Station, which will include 34 en-suite accommodation units for both men and women. A second site will be within greater Norwich, with 40 self-contained accommodation units for young people at risk.
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A highly commended independent living programme offered to residents at the YMCA hostel in Norwich

Caring for every aspect of those it comes into contact with is what the YMCA is all about. It is summed up in the famous YMCA red triangle sign, which represents the body, mind and spirit of those it offers its many services to.

YMCA Norfolk has its own faith development officer, Alexis Lloyd, whose role is specifically to look after the spiritual side of its work.
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Provides emergency short-term accommodation to help youngsters from the age of 16 upwards who find themselves with nowhere to go.

 

Currently delivers advice, training and support to local landlords/landladies and direct support to 150 lodgers every year, in a positive caring domestic environment.

 

It is anticipated that the programme will be developed in Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn, Norwich, Broadland, South Norfolk and Breckland.

 

A YMCA facility inside Norwich Young Offenders Institute provides intensive face-to-face contacts with over 1,000 young offenders offering pastoral care, guidance and resettlement advice, often working with young men at serious risk of self-harm.

 

A furniture warehouse in Norwich offers free basic equipment to vulnerable groups across Norfolk. In the last 12 months over £80,000 of furniture has been donated.

 

An Asylum Seekers Advice Worker provides support, advice, guidance and protection to asylum seekers.

 

The YMCA Schools Department delivers pastoral care in 34 Norfolk Schools impacting over 12,000 young people. It tackles issues such as: bullying, self-harm, truancy and anti-social behaviour.

 

A sport facility at Trowse, close to Norwich, provides both indoor and outdoor opportunities for 22 affiliated sports clubs with a membership in excess of 1,250.

 

The corporate office offers consultancy in accounts, human resources, management training, drafting management policies and procedures.