Big Sleep Easy participant chooses YMCA Bournemouth to receive £100, and the presenter of the cheque decides to match it!

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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…

Innovative Parking Charge Helps Watkin Jones Donate £500 to YMCA Bournemouth’s Townsend Youth Project

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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…

YMCA celebrates 175 years!

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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…