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Woolston Nursery break-in – bringing the community together to make a difference

We were saddened to discover that, in the early hours of Thursday 4th July, a break-in occurred at YMCA Woolston Nursery causing much damage and theft. As a result the Nursery had to be closed for a day causing...

Design a Daycamps Badge!

It’s time to get creative! Our friend, Walice the Fox, is looking for a new design for a YMCA school holiday Daycamps badge. Can you help him? We will select one winner who will receive a standard ...

YMCA Fairthorne Group Gender Pay Gap Report 2018

YMCA Fairthorne Group has today published its Gender Pay Report for 2018. Organisations with more than 250 employees are required to publish specific gender pay data, as required by the UK Government. Chris...

First Ofsted inspection for YMCA Andover Nursery

YMCA Andover received an overall rating of ‘Good’ from Ofsted following a visit in November. The 121 place Nursery opened in September 2017 and this was the first Ofsted visit for the branch. Particular prai...

YMCA Newport Nursery awarded ‘Outstanding’

We're delighted to announce that our Newport Nursery has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating in its most recent Ofsted inspection. We are thrilled with this result and would like to thank all the team, chi...

Walice’s 60 Days of Positivity

Happy New Year everyone! We're starting 2019 with a smile by bringing back our "60 Days of Positivity" campaign - this time hosted by our friend YMCA Walice the fox! Click here to visit our blog where we wil...

YMCA Reverse Advent

Join us this December as we ask those that can to donate an item a day to one of our community branches to support a family in your area this holiday season. We will be collecting from Monday 3rd December th...

YMCA New Milton Nursery – opening April 2019

We're excited to announce that we are adding New Milton to our list of Early Years locations! Opening from 23rd April 2019, our nursery will offer high quality childcare for children aged 0-5 years in the loc...

Christmas Card Competition winners revealed!

A huge thank you to everyone that entered our Walice the fox Christmas Card competition. Everyone's designs were amazing and we loved hearing what Christmas meant to you! We are excited to announce that the 4...

YMCA Christmas Card Competition

We know it seems a bit early to be talking about "The Big Day"... but Christmas is only 99 days away (not that we're counting!) We're so excited about it that we've launched our Walice the Fox Christmas Card ...