“Making the Difference” Y’s Men European Convention Arendal (Norway) – June 2015. Ed Eggink President YMCA Europe.
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“Making the Difference”
Y’s Men European Convention
Arendal (Norway) – June 2015.
Ed Eggink
President YMCA Europe
Greetings
to all of you from:
Juan Simoes Iglesias (Spain) our SecretaryGeneral
Our Executive Committee
Our Staff
Some facts
• YMCA Europe is an umbrella organisation.
• With 41 National YMCA’s in Europe as full
member (34) or as co-operating member (7).
• Additionally serving YMCA’s developing in at
least 4 other countries.
• Reaching approx. 1.8 mln. benificiaries per
year
• By approx. 5.600 local YMCA’s
YMCA Europe’s Strategy
2011-2016
Priorities.
• Clear mission
• Relevant programme’s
• Sustainability
Signature programme’s.
• Peace; Justice and Democracy
• Healthy Living
• Inclusive Christianity
Accents.
Accents on work:
• In Eastern European countries (since 1989);
sucessful; now solid YMCA’s
• Now emphasis on developing YMCA’s in Balkan
countries; strengthening existing YMCA’s and
building up new YMCA’s
• Also in Baltic countries
• And in southern European countries
Work in progress !
Support from Y’s Men (1)
• Examples of YMCA projects supported by Y’s
Men
Strengthening YMCA work in Balkan Countries
and in Lithuania.
Programme Initiative Centers in Kosovo;
Serbia; Macedonia; Romania and Lithuania.
Very successful !
Gjakovo (Kosovo); 2 charity shops lead to a
sustainable YMCA Kosovo
Support from Y’s Men (2)
Activity support in Gdynia (Poland)
Plovdiv (Bulgaria); support for office and
activities
Constanta (Romania); support for father/son
educational programme
Baia Mare (Romania); supporting YMCA
activities
Vilnius (Lithuania); support for YMCA
activities
Thank you !!
• These YMCA’s are very grateful for your
support
• As well as we are for your continued support
and for contributing to the Friends of YMCA
Europe Campaign (recently re-launched)
Strengthening YMCA Movements is our
common goal
Developments
Preparing for the next strategic period 20162020.
New impulses for Strengthening YMCA’s in
Europe by establishing an office in Brussels
Working on sustainability
Strategy 2016-2020
• Interactive process started May 2015 and will
lead to adoption of the new Strategy 2016-2020
in May 2016
• Examples of important trends:
Growing radicalisation amongst young people
Growing number of young refugees and asylum
seekers
Still growing youth unemployment
How can the YMCA respond ?
Youth unemployment
Strengthening YMCA’s
• Strengthening our National Movements is a key
priority:
Clear mission about what we stand for
Programmes relevant for nowadays societies
Sustainability to do our work
All for the benefit of young people in Europe !
Therefore: …………………. we want to open an
Office in Brussels (1)
With the tasks:
• To collect; filter and disseminate information
from European Union Institutions and the Council
of Europe for our National Movements
• To assist National Movements in making contacts
• To assist National Movements and YMCA
Europe’s Programme Groups in preparing grant
applications
• To host trainings for Board- and Staff members of
National Movements
Office in Brussels (2)
• To network with other European Youth
Organisations in preparing positions on Youth
Policy issues
• To network with European Union officials and
make the work of the YMCA better known
• To offer a meeting facility for National
Movements and our international
representatives
Office in Brussels (3)
• We aim at a 3-4 years project; after that it should be
self sustainable.
• Total costs per year, including salary; office space;
travels, approx.: € 80-85.000
• For a 3 years project approx.: € 250.000
• Great support from the World Alliance of YMCA’s is
confirmed (approx. € 35.000 for the first year)
• Aiming at a start on 1st. January 2016
Sustainability
Human resources:
• Our “YES network” of young leaders (51 in a training last May;
more than 220 in the network available for their YMCA’s)
• Leadership trainings by programme groups and in projects
• Governance training
Financial resources:
• The Festival in Prague (2013) helped us
• In May 2015 the “Friends of YMCA Europe” campaign was relaunched
• Support from our members; from Institutions and from
private donors
Making the difference
• We have big ambitions and big plans
• YMCA and Y’s Men can make the difference in the lives of
many young people in Europe
• For the unemployed; for the refugees; for the ennemies
because of different faiths; for ennemies for political
reasons; for young people coming from prison; for young
people with health problems; for homeless young people
• We, as Y’s Men and as YMCA, definitely can make the
difference.
• Never think that we are too small to make that difference
because ……………………………
To small ??
Dear friends,
be the mosquito
Looking forward to a continued good
co-operation.
Thank you very much !
• www.ymcaeurope.com
• [email protected]