Posts By: Anna Acland

The YMCA St Paul’s Group West London youth team are celebrating success in two categories at the first ever Young Ealing Foundation Awards. Youth Worker Ryan Kennedy was named winner of the Young Leader Award, whilst the YMCA SPG Crime Diversion Project won the Youth Violence Intervention Award. The awards ceremony, hosted at University of…

As we enter a new year, we are conducting a new youth survey to understand the needs of young people across London. Young people are at the heart of what we do and we want to ensure that our youth services are a direct reflection of what young people are wanting and needing from us to support them to flourish.   As we…

‘Joy to the World’ is one of the most uplifting Carols sung during the Christmas season. This 18th Century rousing Hymn tells of the whole of creation celebrating and being uplifted by the news of the birth of Jesus not in a Palace but in a stable in Bethlehem, an unexpected place. Instead of focusing on the particular characters in the Christmas story ‘Joy to the World’ celebrates that this event is good news for…