Sarah and Heather fundraising in memory of Mark at Big Sleep Easy 2019 One night in November 2019, almost 200 staff, managers and directors from businesses and organisations across Dorset are expected to brave the cold and take part in the YMCA Bournemouth Big Sleep Easy to raise awareness of homelessness and the funds to…
A belated congratulations to the three staffmembers who won our ‘Going the Extra Mile’ (GEM) Award for their contributions to the ongoing success of YMCA Bournemouth. The winners were Kerry Smith, the manager of Teddy’s Pre School; Rosie Wingrove, a relief practitioner at the YMCA Bournemouth Child Contact Centre; and Laura Giles, the manager of YMCA Lifewise Gym, Bournemouth and YMCA…
This summer, the HealthBus, a healthcare outreach service for rough sleepers operated by Boscombe’s Providence Surgery and supported by YMCA Bournemouth, received significant recognition of the value of its work when it was awarded a grant of £47,993 from the Nationwide Community Grants programme. The money will fund GP costs, insurance, nursing salary, drug/alcohol and…
Lauren Cooper, who is taking part in our Big Sleep Easy ‘Sleep Rough So Others Don’t Have To’ event on 16 November this year, was attending the British Insurance Brokers Association conference (BIBA 2019) when she entered a prize draw run by Q Underwriting, of which aQmen Underwriting is a part. As charity, faith and…
One of the UK’s leading construction and development companies, Watkin Jones, has donated £500 to YMCA Bournemouth’s youth work in Townsend, Bournemouth. The funds were raised as a result of the company introducing a weekly parking levy on contractors working at their site, The Helm (Telereal), in Bournemouth. Money raised by the scheme is distributed…
YMCAs across the country celebrated on Thursday 6 June 2019 to mark 175 years since 22 year-old draper George Williams joined 11 friends to organise the first Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), a refuge of Bible study and prayer for young men seeking escape from the hazards of life on the streets of London. That…
Did you know that the Bible is, ironically, the most commonly stolen book in the world? Did you know that it has been translated into well over 2000 languages across the globe, that over 100 million copies are printed each year, or that the Guinness World Records estimate it to have sold approximately 5 billion…
“How can you say that your truth is better than ours?” – Mumford and Sons, ‘I Gave You All’. There are a handful of Mumford songs that I really like, including ‘I Gave You All’, but as much as I enjoy this song, this particular lyric highlights a genuine problem that exists in our world…
Prayer is a concept that I imagine pretty much all of us are familiar with. Yet can any one of us actually explain what it is and how it works? I know I can’t, not properly anyway. I get the idea that prayer is a way that I can communicate with God, which is what…
Hello and thank you for taking a little time out of your busy day to read our very first Chaplaincy blog! Many of you have probably stumbled across the Chaplaincy department at some point, in one way or another, but for those of you who might not be as familiar with who we are and what we do,…
