Local Burton MP Jacob Collier Appointed Parliamentary Patron for YMCA England & Wales
Local Burton MP, Jacob Collier, has been appointed Parliamentary Patron for YMCA England & Wales. Last month, Jack Chesterman & Caroline Foster presented him with a certificate to welcome him to the role whilst at Westminster Abbey. The parliamentary patron programme is there to create advocates for both the national YMCA and local YMCAs within […]
YMCA AND LOCAL MP LAUNCH £75,000 AUTUMN APPEAL
Burton and Uttoxeter MP Jacob Collier is calling on local businesses and residents to support the town’s YMCA as the team launches their autumn fundraising campaign. With a target of £75,000, the programme has three core areas of focus – the food bank, the annual sleepout and Christmas. Jacob Collier MP recently visited the main […]
Sleepout tickets are now LIVE!
That’s right! You can now buy your Sleepout tickets!!! Here’s a photo of our facilities manager Shaun to let you know that now is the time to grab your tickets and join us on Friday 25th October! Click here to get yours today!
Outreach heroes
It was a very early morning start for volunteers Ruth, Coral, Margaret and Steve who joined Stuart from YMCA for outreach this morning.Thank you all #YMCA #YMCABurton #VolunteersImage description: a couple of our outreach team
Vote for us! YMCA Youth Matters awards
We are over the moon to be a in the semi-finals of the YMCA Youth Matters awards!!! We need your help, could you drop us a quick vote? https://campaigns.ymca.org.uk/page/154397/survey/1?ea.tracking.id=y%20hub and scroll down till you see: Health & Wellbeing Project of the year and please do give us a vote! Thank you! #YMCA #YMCABurton #YouthMattersAwards Image […]
Longest serving staff member at YMCA Burton retires
A stalwart of our charity, Tom Foster, has finally retired after 28 years of dedicated service. Facilities manager, Tom has been with since 1996 which makes him the longest service member of staff within YMCA Burton’s history and he will be sorely missed by his colleagues. On his last day, Tom was surprised with a […]
Local firm Rushton Hickman are running for charity
The Burton 10k run has been an annual event for the town for the past few years and this year, a team of runners from Commercial property agents and Chartered Surveyors; Richton Hickman are taking up the challenge for charity and hoping to raise money for YMCA Burton. The course is renowned for being hilly […]
Sleepout 2024! Save the date!
We are happy to announce the date for this year’s Sleepout is…. – FRIDAY 25th OCTOBER – Please do save the date and join us. Tickets will go on sale in September, please send us an email to register your interest and be the first to know when they go live! Email: fundraising@burtonymca.org Thank you! […]
Burton Barrel roll art trail
The Burton Barrel roll art trail is the talk of the town this summer! Some of our staff went for a walk to spot some this week and loved all the designs they saw. Congratulations to everyone over at Making Trails for another fantastic trail – it is on all summer and the Maps and […]
YMCA National Conference
We had an amazing time at last weeks National Conference – it was wonderful to catch up with our YMCA family and hear from guest speakers such as: Mark Gifford, Chief Executive of the National Citizen Service, Paul Brown, Chief Executive of YMCA Leicestershire and National Board member, Ben Page, Chief Executive of Ipsos, Soheila […]
