YMCA Wirral
Education & Skills
We would like to buy a new greenhouse and raised beds to enable more community volunteers to learn gardening skills and make friends.
About this cause
YMCA Wirral is the main provider of hostel accommodation for homeless men and women aged over 16 years and upwards and have 56 bedspaces in our hostel. Our objective is to ensure that each client is given the opportunity to: -Acquire new skills through meaningful volunteering opportunities leading to employment. -Healthy eating education -Address any drug and/or alcohol dependencies with counselling and support. -Learn new skills and gain self confidence. We also provide a range of other services and activities for the wider communities, -An emergency night shelter for men and women. -A structured volunteer programme. -A canal boat to take individual clients and groups away - A controlled drinking unit for alcohol dependent clients -Street `Y`s environmental improvement activities
How this cause brings people in the community together
The `Y` Garden has successfully provided participants with the life skills & self confidence to enable a number of participants to gain employment or access further education courses. The additional greenhouse will allow more local residents to gain life skills to be work ready & seek paid employment. And the plants will be used to improve the local environment for the whole community.