North Staffordshire YMCA News & Events
Welcome to North Staffs YMCA onlineFor all the latest news and events taking place at the YMCA, visit the YMCA News Section
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Quick page links: Our Board of Directors, Our Organisation's Structure, Our Company History, Our Board Minutes, Friends
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Anna Lewis - Chair
Paul Haslam - Treasurer
Daniel Flynn - Company Secretary
Directors: Norman Prophett, Ray Owen, Kirsty Scullion, Margaret Hardcastle, Lynn Tindale, Keith Haywood, Glenn Handforth, Nigel Barrett, Stephanie Poulter, Linda Freeman, Paul Haslam
Our Organisational Structure
To see a copy of our Organisational Structure click here
The YMCA was started by George Williams in 1844, it is now based in 138 countries around the world with 150 local associations in England and Wales. There has been a YMCA in various forms in North Staffordshire since 1895.
YMCA North Staffordshire (formally Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffs YMCA) has been in operation since 1973 and opened Edinburgh House a 95 unit accommodation project in 1976. Over the next 20 years the organisation developed its programmes and became a “foyer” offering training services to homeless young people in 1994. The organisation responded to the emerging homelessness numbers in that time and those issues and agendas began to dominate the development of the organisation.
The current CEO took up post in January 2003. The initial task was to move the organisation back into the community, redeveloping is reputation as a service to the community focusing on the needs of young people, their families and their communities. The organisation became to look at prevention strategy rather than crisis. Customer service became to predominant delivery philosophy and a new business plan and strategy we launched.
The organisation is an incorporated limited company, registered with the charity commission and the Housing Corporation. The organisation has 92 units for accommodation now employs over 102 individuals.
Click here for a detailed attachment explaining the development of the YMCA.
Board Minutes
Board minutes will be available for downloading from this page in the near future.
Friends & Networks
Visit some of our friends and our networks below:
YMCA England supports and represents the work of 135 YMCAs providing professional and relevant services that make a difference to the lives of young people in over 250 communities. Collectively, we reach out to over 1 million young people each year.
Supporting People is the government's long term policy to enable local authorities to plan, commission and provide housing-related support services that help vulnerable people to live independently. Click on the logo to visit Stoke-on-Trent City Council's Supporting People's pages.
Church Without Walls is discovering God at work in our world beyond the 'walls' of our limits (and divisions). We're exploring what it means to follow Jesus Christ today and how God is calling us to reshape 'church' in line with his mission of reconciling the world. We come from Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Visits our friends at West Bromwich Network Church, perhaps one of the youngest, if not the youngest church in the Church of England. Reaching out to young people in creative new ways. Their focus is on providing a completely relaxed and informal, friendly atmosphere, wanting church to be based on relationships rather than traditions, and contemporary worship and teaching which relates to our real lives, rather than reflects a 17th century version of England in the 'good old days'.
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Faithworks seeks to empower and inspire Christians and churches to develop their role at the hub of their community, to challenge and change public perception of the Church and encourages unity and partnership.
Visit the official website of our friends at the Ghana YMCA.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice. Read their research by clicking on the logo.
Sacred Space invites you to make a 'Sacred Space' in your day, and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is established by law as the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Its aim is to provide the best possible regulation of these charities in order to increase charities’ efficiency and effectiveness and public confidence and trust in them.
Olivia's Shop engages in the retail of unique and gift products, mostly of African origin.
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