https://gygyc.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/87b7a5fc-1cd7-40f2-8286-00c4309546d7/Beach+5.jpg Home - What do we do? GYGYC as a charity aims to offer a seamless support service to young carers across the borough of Great Yarmouth. Through age-specific Peer support groups, one to one mentoring also counselling. Young carers (YC, aged 5 -16) and Young Adult Carers (YAC aged 17 to 19) are described as young people who are either support their parents/guardians who have an illness, disability or issues around drugs or alcohol, or support their parents/guardians to look after a sibling or another family member. This caring role can have a dramatic effect on their lives, their physical and emotional health. The younger carers also miss out on the normal parent and child relationship and the activities and trips this incorporates. The groups offer a break from the intensity of their caring role, through support, respite, fun and learning opportunities by delivering a programme of positive activities, either in house or trips to local attractions through the empowering model ensuring every young person has a voice in the planning, delivery and evaluation therefore the development of the charity, ensuring they no longer feel isolated. The Youth Workers and Young Carers Support workers offer them different role models and support regarding coping mechanisms and strategies and assist them through the transitions they face from Junior to Secondary School, from Secondary School to Further Education, training or Employment. Therefore, supporting the young person's wellbeing and mental health during their growth and development, but especially during the key transition periods of change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/91921762-1ef5-43b5-a1ae-5203fadb7e1f/website.jpg Home - History In 2011, the organisation was established by Terry Macrowan (was Wood) and with succeeded funding, the Young People’s Committee was developed. Further funding led to the first peer support group opening in November 2011. Since then the organisation became a charity in May 2013 and has had continued success with grants to enable us to open more Peer support groups during term time and with donations, young people’s fund raising events and additional grants to support a school holiday activity programme. In April 2015 we appointed a full-time Manager and were able to add an Admin assistant in March 2018 to the staff team and as the number of referrers grew in January 2019 we were successful in obtaining funding to employ two Full-time and two part-time Youth Workers/Support Workers to start to offer our one to one mentoring scheme. https://gygyc.co.uk/news daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/32c8df01-bc54-48d4-85de-fa233c33a790/Group+1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/2d4c3bd1-66bf-49a7-a39a-2a05e3dade0d/Darren+2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/dacf9ccd-412d-4b66-9ec3-085d98cd2592/Darren+1.jpg https://gygyc.co.uk/our-team daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/554de096-a493-4cac-946a-54f023f3911c/Terry+picture.jpg Our Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/fec032f3-cf14-4554-a556-2788240681b9/Niamh+picture.jpg Our Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/d34da9f4-5174-47fa-8470-232e89b8893c/Ricly+picture.jpg Our Team - RICKY Well hello there, welcome My Name is Ricky Buckland I’m 26, baby of the staff team I believe, however I have personal experience of who and what a young carer is and a young adult carer, Due to having been and now as an adult carer, I care for my sister as well as my mum, I would do the weekly food shopping, fetching medication, cooking for the family while trying to do homework and course work, when I was at school one of my regrets is not telling the school I was a young carer because I was scared of what the outcome would be, however now if I could go back in time, I would shout it from the roof top that I’m a young carer. In my spare time I like to travel so far, I have travelled around Thailand, East Coast of Australia, I have also done a safari in South Africa. I also like to sing in the car – PS I’m not the next Adele! Talking of Adele, I’ve been lucky to see her live! – It was an incredible experience! Coming on to how I got involved with GYGYC, before they closed the youth services back in 2009, I was a young person who attended a young carers groups that Terry had ran for Norfolk County Council and I was on the young people’s committee and we said to Terry, ‘why do you need Norfolk county council’ can’t you open up your own young carers groups...? 6 months later, Terry had opened up an organisation to run some peer support groups for young carers, I volunteered at these groups for 4 years before I was offered a paid role within the organisation. 10 years later… we’re here today! I say let’s see what the future holds for Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Young Carers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/4471f782-8f61-4f5b-9b47-cb3f99109467/kIM+PICTURE.jpg Our Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/79ff8e96-2f46-4ffc-bf00-a5db22c14f1e/DLM+picture.jpg Our Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://gygyc.co.uk/materials-for-learning daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://gygyc.co.uk/contact-us daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602286a8e856a911d79220a5/5107f4d2-450e-49ec-9871-a81120d8e70a/Beach+1.jpg Contact Us - Contact us. 01493 650056 07925851849 info@gygyc.org.uk GYGYC Office Shrublands Youth and Adult Centre Magdalen Way Gorleston Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 7BP Facebook Twitter 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