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Southend YMCA
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Southend YMCA and me: Marion Simakungwe
Our FYV Youth Commissioner Marion shares her experiences of Southend YMCA and the projects and initiatives she's been a part of... "Being involved with Southend YMCA and the FYV project has been invaluable to me. I have gained so much confidence through meeting new people and discussing ideas for new projects. I have also had some amazing opportunities whilst working with the YMCA." I was able to go gliding at Cambridge Gliding Centre as part of a project to get vulnerable yo
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Southend YMCA
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Help Us 'Get 2020 Wrapped Up'...
Would you like to be part of making local history? All around the world people are documenting this year in some way and Southend YMCA is no different! 'Get 2020 Wrapped Up' is a new project by our initiative FYV - Find Your Voice - which is encouraging the people of Southend-on-Sea to help us tell the story of their town in the year 2020. We are inviting you to participate in the creation of a community patchwork quilt...we want to see the story of Southend 2020 through th
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Southend YMCA
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
UK Parliament Week 2020
UK Parliament Week is an annual festival that engages people from across the UK with their UK Parliament, explores what it means to them and empowers them to get involved. Last year over 1.2 million people took part in UK Parliament Week, in every nation and region of the UK, and countries all over the world. This years UKPW sees the launch of the Mark Your Mark campaign. Make Your Mark gives young people aged 11-18 the chance to select one issue affecting individual nations
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Southend YMCA
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Black History Month & Quiz
Southend YMCA & FYV are marked Black History Month 2020 by hosting a family quiz! Our quiz was aimed to challenge how much people really know about black history and raise awareness of the many important contributions to society by the black community. The quiz was presented by Ashley J, MTV presenter, Live Nation event presenter, Actor and the voice of ‘Jared’ in CBeebies series, JoJo & Gran-Gran. He was joined by Tee-J, who is known for his role in CBBC television show Kerc
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