YMCA Exeter

We are recruiting! 🔈
Do you have a passion for young people? Due to internal recruitment, we have 3 new roles available serving young people in our local community 🎉

➡️ Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People (in training)
➡️ Support Worker (Torbay)
➡️ Youth and Communities Worker

🔗You can apply via the link in our comments below, or email [email protected] with any questions 📩

Last week, Simon Day weddings (https://simonday.com/) gave a photography taster session for one of our residents in Torbay, covering camera set-up, lighting and portraits! 📷 Our resident was able to take some great headshots of some of the staff team during the session.

We are grateful for business owners like Simon, that invest in our residents as part of our EMOTE programme (Education, Meaningful Occupation, Training and Employment) — a dedicated strand of support for every young person living with YMCA Exeter, Torbay Accommodation.

The EMOTE Programme is a targeted initiative designed to inspire and raise aspirations among the young people who live with us. Its purpose is to create opportunities that many of them may not have had access to while living in unstable or challenging circumstances.

If you are a local Torbay business that has a passion for investing in young people, you can find out more about getting involved with our emote programme here: ymcaexeter.org.uk/emote/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=emote

📣 We're still on the lookout for a Youth and Communities Worker to join the team at !

If you're passionate about supporting young people and helping communities thrive, this could be the role for you. You'll deliver engaging youth work sessions, activities and events for young people across Broadclyst, Tithebarn and West Clyst — helping to create safe, welcoming spaces where they can connect with their community and find the support they need to thrive.

This role is offered on a fixed-term basis for two years from the successful candidate's start date, with the possibility of extension subject to review.

📌 Job title: Youth and Communities Worker
⏰ Hours: 15–20 hours per week
📄 Contract: Fixed Term (2 years)
💷 Salary: £26,227.80 per annum, pro rata
📍 Location: Exeter area (Tithebarn, Broadclyst and West Clyst)
🗓️ Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 6th October

Find out more and apply here: https://www.ymcaexeter.org.uk/youthandcommunitiesworker/

Or get in touch: [email protected]

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Youth and Communities Worker - YMCA Exeter Deliver engaging youth work sessions, activities and events for young people across Broadclyst, Tithebarn and West Clyst, helping to create safe, welcoming spaces where they can connect with their community and find the support they need to thrive.

Today marks 33 years since we first opened here on St David's Hill, officially opened by the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Exeter, Cllr. M.J. Rich, on 24th September 1993.

Since then, this building has been a starting point for hundreds of young people rebuilding their lives after homelessness — a safe place to live, and the support to move forward from there. That's only been possible because of everyone who believed in it: the councillors, staff, volunteers and supporters who got it open in the first place, and everyone who's kept it going since.

If you'd like to help make sure it's still standing for the next 33 years, one of the easiest ways costs you nothing today: you can write or update your Will completely free (worth £90), through our partnership with Octopus Legacy — with the option to leave YMCA Exeter a gift in it, if you choose to.

👉 Write your free Will: https://www.ymcaexeter.org.uk/legacy/

23 miles across Dartmoor, in a day.

Last Friday, more than 30 people from Bishop Fleming's Exeter and Plymouth offices walked the Abbot's Way, the old route across the moor, to raise money towards YMCA Exeter. Some of our team joined them for it.

It's a long, wet, hilly way to support a charity, and they did it anyway. Thank you to everyone who walked and everyone who sponsored them — the money raised goes straight into our work with young people facing homelessness in Devon.

Still time to donate → https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ym7qr0

This came out of our kitchen, not a bakery.

Strawberry cheesecake, from scratch, made by young people learning to cook.

Are you someone who understands what cooking gives you? The independence of it, the pride in putting something in front of people and saying I made that?

£10 a month could go towards our weekly prep and cook group.

Be part of The 100 → https://www.ymcaexeter.org.uk/becomeafriend/

The Big Build 🔨

Last week, 2 groups of volunteers from accountancy firms in Exeter took part in The Big Build, where we spent two days constructing DIY flat pack furniture for Breakwater Place! Our 47 bed property in Plymouth.

Thank you to Life at Bishop Fleming and PKF-Francis Clark for giving your time to help us with this project! 👷‍♀️

Claim your free will today ✍️

YMCA Exeter partner with Expert Estate Planners, Octopus Legacy to offer you the opportunity to write or update your will for free!

You choose how to write it - online at your own pace, or by appointment with an Estate Planning consultant.

There are no obligations or strings attached to this will writing service, however there is the opportunity to leave a gift in your will to YMCA Exeter. A gift in your will could help build a safe place to call home; supporting our work across Exeter and Devon in providing safe, affordable homes for young people experiencing homelessness, and doing meaningful work with youth and children in our community.

Claim your free will here:
octopuslegacy.com/online-will?utm_channel=partner&utm_campaign=ymcaexeterfree&utm_source=ymcaexeterfree&utm_medium=Spring2025Email&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=octopus_legacy_aw26

We are looking for a Youth and Communities Worker to join the team at 📣

Deliver engaging youth work sessions, activities and events for young people across Broadclyst, Tithebarn and West Clyst, helping to create safe, welcoming spaces where they can connect with their community and find the support they need to thrive.
This role is offered on a fixed-term basis for two years from the successful candidate's start date, with the possibility of extension subject to review.

Job title: Youth and Communities Worker
Hours per week: 15-20 hours per week
Contract type: Fixed Term (for 2 years)
Salary: £26,227.80 per annum, pro rata
Location: Exeter-area (Tithebarn, Broadclyst and West Clyst)
Closing date: 8am on 21st September 2026

🔗Find out more and apply here: ymcaexeter.org.uk/youthandcommunitiesworker/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youthandcommunitiesworker
📩Or contact [email protected]

💦Waterpark Fun💦

Last week, our team took 31 young people to in Paignton! The group consisted of young people that attend our Youth Groups across Exeter, and we are so glad they had a great day out together.

Thanks to our Youth Workers and Children's Wellbeing Practitioners for making this day possible!