We offer affordable childcare in Derby and Derbyshire. Including nurseries, breakfast, after school and school holiday clubs.

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Family & Youth Work

We support youth and communities with a range of health and wellbeing activities including therapeutic counselling, community green spaces and activities focused around mindfulness and social connection.

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Health & Wellbeing

We provide a home and personalised support services for a fresh start in life through our supported housing pathways.

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Housing

We provide opportunities to gain qualifications, skills and employment.

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Training & Education

We offer support and advice for people at risk of homelessness and poverty at the Padley@YMCA Derbyshire Day Centre.

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Support & Advice

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Family & Youth Work

Creating positive outcomes with children and young people in their communities, and support for families with nursery, day care, holiday and year-round programmes.

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Health & Wellbeing

Community hubs for classes, social connection and collaborations.

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Housing

Providing a home and personalised support services for a fresh start in life.

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Training & Education

Opportunities to gain qualifications, skills and employment.

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Support & Advice

A safe place to talk and get help through guided groups, mentoring, counselling, and mental health services.

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Make a Donation

By making a regular donation, you will enable us to continue providing the specialised support we believe every young person deserves.

Find out more about how you can support YMCA Derbyshire and Padley below:

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Everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are and what they can become.

At YMCA Derbyshire, we believe there are essential building blocks for a full and rewarding life, such as a safe home, physical and mental health, and access to real opportunities. Many young people have never known these things and others have lost one or more as they grew up, but we all need them. All of us.

We provide these critical foundations for a fresh, strong start for young people and a better quality of life in the community. We believe in fairness and opportunity and focus on the following key areas of work: Health & Wellbeing, Support & Advice, Family & Youth Work, Training & Education and Housing.

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Meet Donna

At YMCA Derbyshire, our Housing Navigators are at the heart of the support we provide to young people and community members.

Working directly with those living in our accommodation, housing navigators build relationships, help to achieve goals, organise assistance and support individuals to gain confidence and independence to move onto permanent residence.Now, he’s flourishing in ways he never thought imaginable.

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Auris Ear Care become a YMCA Derbyshire partner

Auris Ear Care have kindly supplied a backdrop to YMCA Derbyshire to help us raise awareness for our charity at events. Thank you so much for supporting us! About Auris Ear Care Auris Ear Care are the UK’s leading home visit ear care service. Founded by Dr Riaz Rampuri in 2018 the company

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PDS Ltd Conquers the Yorkshire Three Peaks for YMCA Derbyshire

This incredible feat involved scaling In an inspiring act of solidarity and charity, the team at PDS Ltd recently took on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to support YMCA Derbyshire. This incredible feat involved scaling the three highest peaks in Yorkshire within 12 hours, showcasing not only their physical endurance but also their commitment to giving back to the community.

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Our Peoples Stories

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Meet Alfie

Alfie joined YMCA Stepping Stones in 2022. His guardian recently wrote to the team at the nursery to express their gratitude for the care he has received.

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Meet Nathan

Having spent two years living a reclusive life, Nathan didn’t communicate with anyone – he’d given up and had no motivation. Find out how YMCA Derbyshire provided him with friends for life and dramatically increased his confidence.

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Meet Sophie

Due to polycystic kidney disorder, growing up was already difficult for Sophie. Then, when she was 13, she was diagnosed with a global learning disability, meaning life got even more complicated for her. Find out how we have helped Sophie with her education.

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