YMCA Burton celebrates 135 years of work in the local community
This year, we are celebrating 135 years of work in the local community. We have planned some events to mark this special occasion and one of them was a heritage walk, curated especially to take in the sites of special interest within the YMCAs history. The walk, which is around 4 miles in length takes […]
End of YMCA Burton Easter Campaign
This year, YMCA Burton’s Easter Campaign focused on raising money for their Foodbank. Whilst the Foodbank relies on donations made by members of the public, businesses, schools, colleges, churches, and community groups; there are still other costs that need to be met such as buying additional food, storage, carrier bags and utility costs. Currently, an […]
Fashion & Shopping event
We had a fantastic evening at our Fashion and Shopping event. A lovely venue, lots of amazing models, rails and rails of gorgeous clothes and a never ending raffle – all makes up for a wonderful evening raising funds for our Foodbank. Thanks to everyone who came along and to our brilliant volunteers – we […]
YMCA Burton issues record number of foodbank parcels
YMCA Burton has issued a record number of foodbank parcels this January. 344 parcels where given out which equates to around 4,700 meals. Each foodbank parcel contains enough food to feed someone three meals a day for three days. The parcel contains items such as soups, noodles, pasta, pies and tinned vegetables, as well as […]
Sleepout 2021 total
All the sponsorship money has now been collected and we can now reveal the final total raised for this years Sleepout is…. £29,238!!!! Thank you to all who took part – we have loved seeing you all again in person and virtually and thank you to the sponsors and donators – you are […]
Award winning YMCA Burton
A number of staff and volunteers attended the Annual Youth Matters Awards Ceremony hosted by YMCA England & Wales on Friday 5th November. Over 350 people gathered in a Central London Hotel representing YMCAs from across England & Wales. The host for the event was Paul Sinha one of the masterminds from “The Chase”. He very […]
New vacancies!
We currently have the following vacancies: -Support and Engagement Worker -Positive Move On Worker -Night Support Supervisor -Night Support Worker Please send an email to Maxine at maxine.bennett@burtonymca.org for more details, https://burtonymca.org/work-for-us/ #Charity #CharityJobs #CharityWork #YMCA #YMCABurton
YMCA Burton is calling on community for support after being nominated or three top prizes at national youth charity awards
We are celebrating after being nominated for the following awards: YMCA of the year Family work project of the year for our Mediation and Counselling services COVID Community Hero for the work done by YMCA Burton Staff member Tom Foster. We will be attending the highly anticipated return of YMCA’s Youth Matters Awards in November, […]
Tom Celebrating 25 years of service
Our Tom is celebrating 25 years of working at YMCA Burton today!!! For all those that know him, they will understand what an amazing man he is – always so thoughtful and helpful and super knowledgeable about everything! Thanks for all that you do for us Tom! #Charity #CharityWork #CharityWorker #YMCA #YMCABurton
We need your vote!
We have been selected as one of the charities to vote for in the Asda Green token giving campaign this month. Instead of the usual green tokens you get given in-store, you can now vote online so we would appreciate a little vote from you if possible! https://www.asda.com/green-tokens/store?store=4230… Thank you! #Charity #CharityTuesday #AsdaGreenToken #YMCABurton #YMCA […]
