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Do you have a flair for fun and adventure? Why not become a master of music or skateboarding for our skill clinic masterclasses this summer!

Huge congratulations to Nottinghamshire YMCA’s Lead Youth Worker and Young Creatives Coordinator, Ben Felsted, on being awarded the Nottingham Roosevelt Memorial Scholarship!

10 miles, 20+ obstacles, and mud… glorious mud... Charity supporters tackled this year's Tough Mudder challenge to raise awareness of Nottinghamshire YMCA's frontline services.

What do Maid Marion, Friar Tuck and Little John all have in common? They're all rides in some of the most beautiful locations that Nottinghamshire has to offer!

Gary Sivier, Maintenance Joiner at Nottinghamshire YMCA, shares how working with the organisation has proved so much more than just a job by explaining what being part of our local charity movement means to him…

Nottinghamshire YMCA is taking families from the across the county on exciting camping expeditions with the charity's Adventure Guides programme.

Residents at Nottinghamshire YMCA's city centre hostel are benefitting from enormous food donations generously supplied by a local Tesco branch.

Our team of tenacious charity representatives turned out to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week (7 - 12 May 2018).

As part of our Health and Fitness team, Lazaros Fotopoulos shares what it is like delivering Couch to 5K sessions at the YMCA Youth and Community Centre in Aspley.

Residents at Nottinghamshire YMCA's hostel at Commercial Gate, in Mansfield, put their creative skills to the test by creating a 'thank you' cake for Greggs bakery as part of a local initiative.

Nottinghamshire YMCA is delighted to launch their 'Fair Pay Rate' scheme in a bid to promote social responsibility and a greater quality of life for local workers.

Green-fingered staff members from Nottinghamshire YMCA marked this year's 'Volunteer Day' by grabbing their garden gloves and cleaning up Newark's Balderton Park.

Nottinghamshire YMCA's Camp Williams project will be debuting advanced skills sessions, including skateboarding and music, for children aged 8-15 years old at Nottingham Emmanuel School in West Bridgford throughout August 2018.

Nottinghamshire YMCA is delighted support the creation of two new Adventure Guides circles for families in Newark and West Bridgford.

New General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will soon impact the ways in which we can communicate with you and our other charity supporters. Under new GDPR rules, we cannot contact you with news updates or information about our services by phone, email or post unless you explicitly give us permission.

We are teaming up with students from New College Nottingham to offer FREE reflexology/massage sessions at your YMCA Gym!

On Friday 23 February, Nottinghamshire YMCA gym braved the 'Beast from the East' and headed out into the cold to host a couple of Light Night 2018 events.

Massive congratulations to YMCA Outdoor Education and Adventure Services Manager Gavin Barker, who came 6th place in World Kayaking Championships with the GB Freestyle Kayaking team in San Juan.

We are delighted to announce that we have been granted planning permission to build a unique multi-million pound Community and Activity Village on Bowbridge Road in Newark.

We've been getting some great feedback at YMCA gym recently! We wanted to share some of the lovely things you have said...

The creative juices flowed in the training kitchen at Peachey Street, where people living in our Shakespeare Street hostel and transitional homes took part in six weeks of useful and inspiring cooking sessions.

Last week, we opened the YMCA gym doors to our awesome new 1871 membership! The membership, which has CrossFit and strength and conditioning at its heart, is programmed by our coaches and takes place in our new purpose built space.

We are super excited to announce that we have four BRAND NEW skills clinics lined up for Camp Williams this summer! 

We are looking for some awesome and inspiring people to become Camp Leaders at this summer’s Camp Williams!

I spoke to Steve Scott, Children & Family Support Manager at Nottinghamshire YMCA, about sailing across the Solent with young people from our hostel in Mansfield. Here’s what happened on their voyage of adventure, learning, and most importantly, of self-discovery…

Ricardo Whyte is 23 and has been skating for over ten years.

Steffen Benbow - Camps and Adventure Services Manager at our YMCA, reflects on almost two years of skills clinics at YMCA Camp Williams; how he chooses them and what the team have learnt so far...

See what we got up to at our Best Companies party

This marks a great milestone for the exciting £8.5million project, for which Newark and Sherwood District Council has selected us as its partner to develop.

We're celebrating after being recognised as one of the top 100 not-for-profits to work for!

YMCA residents have art displayed at the internationally acclaimed Nottingham Contemporary, in a special celebratory exhibition.

Newark and Sherwood District Council has announced Nottinghamshire YMCA as its partner for a multi-million pound Sports and Community Village in the heart of Newark.

Steve Scott, Children’s & Family Support Manager at our YMCA, has worked with YMCAs all over the world. From Greater Hartford's legendary Camp Jewell in America, to Victoria YMCA's Camp Mayung in Australia and Fairthorne Manor in Southampton - Steve is a bit of an expert when it comes to YMCA camps and holiday clubs. We asked Steve why he thinks camp is so great. This is what he said... - Kersti Fourcin, Nottinghamshire YMCA

- Dan Orange, Nottinghamshire YMCA

In 2014, Rebecca was recruited as a volunteer and since then progressed in to a Personal Navigator role, working on our Building Better Opportunities programme. We spoke to Rebecca about her journey with our Housing team.

Hannah has been scaling great heights with the YMCA. She has proved herself to be a passionate climber, with her dedication to practise and amazing willpower.

Alison has achieved some incredible things with YMCA gym and running club. We caught up with her to talk about her journey. 

Marcus is a regular Robin Hood at archery skills clinics. Find out more about what he's been up to...

This year our members feature front and centre in our New Year gym campaign.

Danny started a twelve week work placement with us almost 3 years ago. He is now 5 months into his role as Duty Manager at YMCA gym. We asked him a few questions about his time with us and what makes his job so great...

It’s crazy how fast May Camp flew by. Camp Fire Friday was an amazing end to a brilliant week filled with smiles, laughs and fun throughout. It sets the scene so well for the Summer, which we’re all really looking forward to here at HQ. But, for those of you who aren’t sure what to look forward to, let me take you back to the first morning of May camp 2016 at Camp Williams...