YMCA Cork Launches Joy’s Room

On Monday 12 February, YMCA Cork hosted a launch event for Joy’s Room, our new sensory space designated for young people

Good Relations and Peacebuilding with Belfast YMCA

Peacebuilding has been a core part of Belfast YMCA work for many decades. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Belfast YMCA was involved in grassroots work to create opportunities for dialogue and mutual understanding.

Summer Programmes with the YMCA

It’s always an exciting time across the YMCA movement as the school term finishes and we look forward to making some incredible summer memories!

Hope Away From Home – World Refugee Day 2023

Welcome is at the heart of YMCA, and along with our values of opportunity, wellbeing and peace & justice – we care passionately about being an inclusive and welcoming organisation to everyone. 

Sport Has The Power To Change The World

The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), which takes place annually on 6 April, presents an opportunity to recognize the positive role sport and physical activity play in communities and in people’s lives across the globe.

Strategic Plan Launch

YMCA’s World General Secretary, Carlos Sanvee, welcomed the new strategic plan for YMCA Ireland that will be based on four values of welcome, opportunity, wellbeing and peace and justice, at a series of events across Ireland with the message that the ‘world needs the YMCA more than ever’.