Youth Agency Award for Personal Achievement
As ever, we were absolutely delighted to present the Wester Hailes Youth Agency Personal Achievement Award at the Forrester High School annual award ceremony which took place yesterday. We love to see young people fulfill their potential however, The Wester Hailes Youth Agency Personal Achievement Award is not all about ...
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Lloyd’s Charity Collection
Many thanks to Lloyd’s Banking Group, and their generous staff, for their recent support. At their most recent charity collection their staff donated and helped to raise almost £150 to support our work with young people. With matched funding from Lloyd’s, we were fortunate enough to receive almost £300 in ...
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Fun at the Science Fest
The Youth Agency had a truly fabulous day out at the Edinburgh Science Festival this week. We dropped in on a few of their free activities to learn, experiment and have fun. We learned all about blood and how different blood groups are identified, we had a go at extracting ...
Read MoreBusy March
It’s been a busy month at The Youth Agency. As well as our drop-in, health drop-in and individual support work we have been working in Forrester High School with all S2 and S4 pupils covering their sexual health and relationship sessions. In total we have worked with over 250 pupils ...
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Helping to turn Scotland purple!
We had a great time last week celebrating LGBT History Month and helping to turn Scotland purple. We threw ourselves wholeheartedly into LGBT Youth Scotland’s Purple Friday celebrations to show our support for LGBT communities and to stand up to homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in whatever form it may take. ...
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Merry Christmas from all at the Youth Agency
Merry Christmas from all at the Youth Agency. We’ve had a wonderful week celebrating with lots of young people at our drop-in and different groups. We wish everyone a happy and peaceful New Year and look forward to seeing everyone again in January!
Read MoreS5 Sexual Health
Our block of S5 sexual health work in Forrester High School wrapped up this week. We spent a total of four weeks with each of the five classes looking at healthy relationships, confidence in decision-making relating to sexual health and relationships, risk taking behaviour, STI’s and ways to keep ourselves ...
Read MoreMVP Success
Our Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) programme is nearly complete in school for another year. Our S6 mentors have worked exceptionally hard over the last 12 weeks learning and practicing MVP lessons. They have spent the last two weeks working with S1 pupils to deliver inspiring lessons to their younger ...
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Parliamentary Recognition
The Youth Agency is delighted to receive support and recognition from our local MSP Gordon MacDonald who lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament to acknowledge our achievement in gaining the LGBT Youth Scotland Bronze Charter Mark. The full motion read as follows: Motion S5M-14370: Gordon MacDonald, Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish ...
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