YMCA Exeter

We are recruiting! 🔈

Due to internal recruitment and a growing need for our services, we are pleased to be advertising 4 new job roles within our organisation 🤩

➡️ Support Worker (stage 1)
➡️ Support Worker (stage 2)
➡️ Tenancy Support Officer (stage 3 & 4)
➡️ Rent Officer (maternity cover)

You can apply here https://www.ymcaexeter.org.uk/jobs/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=other&utm_campaign=facebook_paid_jobs_advert&utm_term=recruitment

or email [email protected] with any questions ✉️

Lighthouse Training Programme 💡

This is Gemma, who recently graduated from our Lighthouse Training Programme! Gemma has spent time training on our main reception with Vasti, our Customer Service Coordinator, gaining valuable work experience.

We held a graduation ceremony for our Lighthouse graduates where residents and staff gathered to congratulate the residents who had successfully completed the programme.

A massive congratulations to those who took part! 🎉

It's Volunteers week and we are shining a light on Tim, a volunteer in our garden projects! 🪴

Since 2021, Tim has become a fundamental part of the volunteer garden crew.

“When Tim arrived, we were just setting up the Exwick Forest School space in collaboration with Exwick Community Church,” explains Sam Thomas, YMCA Exeter Community Projects Manager. “Tim was a huge help across the whole project, especially leading the build on a living roof timber structure.”

“I would be lost without him,” continues Sam. “At St Davids Hill our 31-bed home for young people who have come out of homelessness he led the installation of a polytunnel in our community garden and started a proper compost system and a seasonal planting succession plan.”

From all of us at YMCA Exeter, we’re so thankful for Tim’s consistent support and knowledge sharing. You can read more about Tim's story here: https://www.ymcaexeter.org.uk/meet-tim-a-gardening-legend/

Happy 10th birthday to CoLab! We are so pleased we were able to pop in with cakes during this special week. We appreciate all that you do! 🍰

Our staff team loved being involved with today!

Over the course of the morning, we:
🍰 delivered amazing locally sourced cakes to essential services in Exeter
🚐 handed out goody bags filled with treats and refreshments for delivery drivers in Exeter
🍪 dropped off luxury biscuits to local housing providers
🛍️ our residents and staff in Paignton packed gift bags and handed them to 100 of their neighbours
🔩 visited our regular supply companies to gift them with sweet treats
🍫 supplied heaps of chocolate to staff and students at our local college

We have loved joining JoyFest by serving our local area with acts of kindness ❤️

Find out more about JoyFest here: https://www.joyfest.org.uk/

Our wonderful staff team in Paignton held a BBQ for our residents last week - with the perfect view of the Red Arrow airshow right on the doorstep of Cove House, one of our supported housing projects!

📩 In our May newsletter we share some reflections from Magnus, who used to live at YMCA Exeter, on his recent trip to a land cooperative project thanks to a grant from South West YMCA Trust Fund.

Magnus returns to YMCA Exeter every week as a volunteer to teach green woodwork skills to residents, and the trip gave him the opportunity to spend time developing his crafting skills.

Pictured are some of the amazing crafts they got to create, including shrink pots and rush hand brooms.

You can read more here: https://mailchi.mp/bb8f26597a01/fields-turtles-and-exam-tips

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Sam, our Community Projects manager had a fantastic time with Devon Rural Skills Trust at the Devon County Show over the weekend! The team demonstrated pole lathe turning and green wood working.

Sam described the experience as "lovely to chat to some of the previous generation of crafts people and inspire the next!"