YMCA Bedfordshire

Youth charity celebrates £320,000 National Lottery funding

A charity working with Bedford's most vulnerable children and young people is celebrating being awarded £326,112 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund...

The sky’s the limit for fundraising 60-year-old

There are many ways to celebrate significant birthdays but it's unlikely most of us would celebrate turning 60 by choosing to 'wing walk'. However, one Bedford resident, Bernice Adeniyi-Jones...

DJs join YMCA Beds to host virtual party raising funds for local victims of domestic abuse

YMCA Bedfordshire has partnered with DJs and promoters MiCasa SuCasa to host a virtual party this Thursday, raising vital funds for domestic abuse...

TK Maxx, Homesense and Nando’s support Bedford’s Food4 project as demand ‘sky-rockets’

As demand doubles, local stores and restaurants have been donating products that would have gone to waste to Food4, a project run by YMCA Bedfordshire...

Bedford’s Old Arcade ‘almost full’ after three new shops are set to open

There is just one empty unit remaining in Bedford's Old Arcade as three unique new independent shops are opening there in the next two weeks.

Bedford’s homeless fight the stigma with art exhibition

This week is the UK's first Homelessness Awareness Week, a series of events in Bedford to highlight awareness of the challenges facing homeless people, the charities helping then and break the...

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