Youth Work

The youth work department of Nottinghamshire YMCA specialises in delivering creative arts and digital media provision to disadvantaged to young people in both the City and the County. We pride ourselves on offering unique and innovate programmes to young people from all ages and backgrounds. Our main aim is to use informal education as a tool to help teach young people new skills as well as valuable life skills.

YMCA Digital

YMCA Digital is able to provide multimedia programmes inclusive of...

• Radio broadcast training
• Video production
• DJ-ing skills
• Personal development training
• Creative lyric writing
• Music technology

We utilise the creative arts and digital media to bring together young people who are at risk from exclusion in schools. All of our youth work is based around progressive learning and our goal is to empower young people to critically analyse the perceptions of themselves, and create a platform to debate and facilitate their viewpoints and real positive change.

Delve into the world of YMCA Digital at www.ymcadigital.com

The Aspley Centre YMCA

Also known as North West City YMCA, the Aspley Centre works in partnership with many organisations within the Aspley area. We provide an outstanding service to a variety of diverse groups, from all faiths and ethnicities. We run many effective activities and informal training programmes to help empower young people; providing a diverse range of innovative services and solutions that captivate and challenge hard to reach young people in areas of social deprivation...

Youth specific projects based at the Aspley Centre are...

The Zone Youth Project

Working with young people aged 11-19, on the streets, in the local schools and wherever young people gather in areas of Nottingham defined as being under multiple deprivation. It aims to interface with young people ‘at risk’ through street networking, school contact, drop-in facility and small interest groups. Email Ian Joddrell

Nottingham City Youth Service (Area 3 Team)

The Youth Service is available for 11-25 year olds and ensures there are places to go, things to do and someone to talk to for young people in Nottingham.
Nottingham City Council's Youth Service has a dedicated team of youth workers who provide young people in Nottingham with:

• Places to go - safe and welcoming;
• Things to do - challenging and rewarding; and
• Someone to talk to - trained, qualified and professional youth workers

 

The Sessions

• Dispelling social stereotypes and encourages community cohesion through their creative expression
• Fosters conversation through intergenerational groups and through socio-economic boundaries in their community
• Uniquely providing young people with state-of-the-art mobile equipment at their location, the work we do encourages teambuilding, communication, and hard skills in media technology.

Recent News

• The YMCA Digital Department recently received funding of £19,433 to run an innovative new youth programme both in the City and in the County.  The programme is called NG Fuzion and will bring together the vocal/creative music-making elements of choral singing, beatboxing, MC-ing and rapping.  Different groups from around the County will learn the new skill taught by industry professionals and come together to do a number of high profile performances to the public as a celebration of their learned skills.
  
  
• The Department is running programmes at a Framework Youth Hostel at Fritchley Court in Mansfield making a music video and a documentary with homeless young people who live in the hostel.  The two videos are aimed to tackle gun and knife crime issues which take place in the area.
  
  
• YMCA Digital has also been running sessions sponsored by the Media Trust.  It was commissioned to make three films with young people about issues which really matter to them.  The films will soon be screened on the Community Channel on Sky Television.

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