Space Youth Services

Space Youth Services receiving a cheque for garden enhancements in Barnstaple

Youth centre garden gets a blooming boost

Enhancements will soon be made to the garden at Space Youth Services youth centre after a collaboration with Barnstaple in Bloom dug up access to funding.

The revamp of the outside area at Georgie’s in St George’s Road could help the town to regain gold status in the long-running RHS Britain in Bloom campaign, which considers how different parts of a community - including young people...

CEO of charity

New CEO for Space Youth Services

Devon charity Space Youth Services has announced the appointment of Angela Coton as its new CEO.

It’s the start of a new chapter for the charity, which delivers high quality services and programmes to young people across Devon through eight youth centres and a special school in Dawlish.

Angela has 10 years of experience in the non-profit sector and a proven track record for...

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Smashing the Creative Jam!

Space Youth Services digital marketing apprentice Maddie Aylward from Exeter was thrilled to be in the winning team at this year’s International Creative Jam in Nantes.

Her team designed the top-rated prototype project addressing issues faced by young people in the Atlantic European area.

The three-day Jam was organised by the Atlantic Youth Creative Hub (AYCH), an initiative...

National Lottery funding for digital youth work services

We are proud that we’ve been successful in securing funding from The National Lottery’s Coronavirus Community Support Fund, which will enable us to continue our online support for young people across the county.

Since we closed the doors of our youth centres in March 2020 we have developed online alternatives, which can now be extended and developed during our transition to reopening...