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YPCS Awarded Children In Need Funding

Young People’s Counselling Service has been awarded funding of £65, 000 from BBC Children in Need to deliver play therapy, counselling and expressive arts over the next 15 months. This will help us to continue to deliver our services in the Whittlesey and Yaxley and also extend our services into the Wisbech area.

Through this funding:

60 children and young people will be able to receive up to 12 sessions of free integrative psychological therapy
62 families of children and young people receiving YPCS services will be able to attend targeted support groups to help them understand the challenges their child faces and how best to support them at home
108 children and young people will able to participate in a programme of expressive arts including art, performance, story telling and music with the added opportunity to achieve an Arts Award.

YPCS Chair of Trustees, Alison Graham said “We are delighted to have been awarded this funding from BBC Children in Need. It will not only support many children, young people and their families, but also enable us to work in partnership with 20Twenty to deliver expressive arts and involve our patron, actor and artist Annabelle Davis, in supporting arts delivery.”

Patrons Meet Garden Designer

Dream of sensory garden for local charity becomes a reality . Today Annabelle and Warwick Davis had the pleasure to meet Artist and Garden Creator Jeni Cairns. Meeting at the Annabelle Davis centre (ADC), named after Patron Annabelle, who plays Sasha in CBBC show the Dumping Ground. The ADC is home to local charity The Young Peoples Counselling Service (YPCS) a Child and Family Mental Health Hub, which provides Counselling, Play therapy, Wellbeing groups and Family support groups in the North Cambs and Fenland area. The centre which opened in September 2020, was missing that final touch, thanks to Hunts DC and Persimmon Homes East Mids the dream has become a reality, Jeni was able to share her inspiration for the garden with patrons Warwick and Annabelle and Vice Chair of YPCS Michelle Lay. Now the centre can offer Face to Face sessions again, the garden can now also be used by the YPCS team, clients, and their families as an therapeutic area to relax between sessions or spend time before leaving the centre. Yaxley, Peterborough Saturday 17 October 2020. Picture by Terry Harris.

Our patrons Warwick and Annabelle Davis also met with artist and garden designer Jeni Cairns, who designed our stunning sensory garden. This healing space can be used by families between sessions and is such a wonderful addition to the Annabelle Davis Centre.

Thank you to Jeni for all you have done to bring this space to life.

We would also like to give a big thank you to Persimmon Homes and Huntingdonshire District Council for funding our sensory garden. We are very grateful for your kindness and generosity.

See more of Jeni’s work @ Juniper House Emporium

Photographs by Terry Harris @ Terry Harris Photography

Charity Champions Conquer the Coals

The Stilton Firewalk results are in and what a spectacular night it was!

Thank you to our firewalkers, YPCS volunteers, YPCS trustees, sponsors, raffle donors, Young Technicians CIC, Kayleigh Stephens and Yaxley Youth Club, the The Talbot Inn, Stilton, Kitty Devereux, Tim Alban District Councillor, Shelley Jude, Tony Chard, Clark Howe, Howsafe and everyone else who supported the event.

You helped us raised £5761.71 to support young people!

Runners Brave Torrential Rain to Run the GER for YPCS

On Sunday, 14th October 2017 YPCS formed its first every running team to run the Perkins Great Eastern Half Marathon & 5km Fun Run. The weather was torrential rain for the entire event but despite the challenging conditions, everyone completed their run.

Supported by Equiniti Plc, who provided the running shirts, the team has already raised over £5,000 which is an incredible amount that allows YPCS to counsel another 13 young people during 2018.

A massive thank you to everyone who took part in the event & to Equiniti Plc for their support.

Conquer the Coals for YPCS

Firewalking is an ancient ritual that has existed for thousands of years in many cultures around the world. As a demonstration of courage and faith it has traditionally symbolised an acolyte’s ability to conquer both inner doubt and a primordial fear of the destructive power of the flames.

In 2018 YPCS invites the brave to take the challenge and raise money for young people at Stilton’s famous Talbot Inn. This friendly village pub, once home to the rituals of Stilton’s Ancient Order of Foresters will host the fiery spectacle on the 20th October.

Participants will take a barefoot walk over red-hot embers measuring around 800 degrees and younger guests and pyrophobes will be able to walk a virtual firewalk created by Young Technicians CIC.

Spectators will be treated to a stunning fire show by Kitty Devereux, a performer who has entertained crowds at some of the UK’s biggest festivals.

If firewalking is on your bucket list and you want to help us to help local young people, please download a registration form and start fundraising. Just £100 sponsorship gets you a pass to the path of fire! You can register your support on Just Giving or click here to download a sponsorship form.

Thank you to the Letter B

Good Luck to everyone cycling 54 miles from the Letter B Pub in Whittlesey to Heacham on 14th July to raise money for @YPCS10 and other local charities. A massive thank you and best of luck to all riders taking part from all our Volunteers and Trustees at YPCS.

The Letter B Public House is one of the Town’s best known Public Houses for live music and quizzes. It hosts two Bars with an excellent choice of real ales and real ciders in both.

Run for Young Mental Health

YPCS is pleased to have been listed as a charity be a Great Eastern Run 2018 listed charity. If you would like to run for us in this year’s event you can start fundraising now on Just Giving.

The Perkins Great Eastern Run in Peterborough is growing in reputation and is one of the fastest growing half marathons in the country.

The route passes through Peterborough’s historic centre and is a BARR Gold Grade event on a flat and fast course which is ideal for achieving a personal best.

YPCS will provide running shirts for our runners and will be there at the start and finish to cheer on our champions.

The event takes place October 14th 2018 at 10:30am. Don’t forget to register on the official website.