Contact Details
Woking YMCA
Chobham Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 6JD
Tel No.
01483 757160
Fax No.
01483 763269
VAT Reg No.
879 3560 71
Woking YMCA Ypod News and Events
Exciting times for dynamic dance class 'Boppin'!
I have been busy at the Big Brother house at Elstree studios as the official BB choreographer doing all of the dance tasks that go into the Big Brother house over the last year! The housemates have already had to dance for their shopping budget doing 'Me old Bamboo' from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 'Thriller' and the Eric Prince video 'Call On Me' (which I did for the celebrity Big Brother) I will be doing more exciting things for the housemates during their time in the house.
Boppin runs dance classes at the YPod in Woking on a Saturday morning as follows 9am - Bop 12+yrs, 10am - Baby Boppin 3-5yrs, 11am Mini Boppin6-8yrs, 12noon Teenie Boppin 9-11yrs and our Adult classes are on a Tuesday evening at 8pm. Local teacher and professional West End dancer Cathie Carday will be running Summer Workshops open to all children on the following Tuesday's 10am-1pm during the holidays on the 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th of August. The workshops will be fun packed with arts and crafts sessions, games and lots of dancing! The themes for the workshops will be Grease, Fame, High School Musical and Hairspray For more information go to www.boppin.co.uk or chloe@boppin.co.uk, 07855 944671.
June 2009
Brand new DJ Workshops and Under 16 club night. Workshops run 6-8pm every Monday night and the very best local talent will be selected to DJ at our massive under 16's event, the third Friday of every month.
January 2009
The Ypod lis launching its new youth theatre for 12-18 year olds every Monday from 6-8.30pm with Lisa. Its free and there will be free food to, why not come down and try it out?
September 2008
The Ypod does the business! Read the testimonial below and see how coming to the Ypod can turn some young people's lives around.
'Hi Terry
I’m not sure who said it, but some great business mind said that an unasked for testimonial is worth 100s that come at your request. I believe that you certainly deserve the accolade of an unrequested testimonial of the service you provide!!
Some time ago you sent out an email asking for volunteers for your youth council at the YPOD. My friend has a son who has had some problems (with the police, drugs, fighting) but is a real talent musically. His parents are often saying that they wish they had the money to be able to fund his musical ambitions, that if perhaps he had a positive focus then things would be different. So I recommended the Ypod and the Youth Council to him. He didn’t jump at the chance! It took some time but he eventually phoned and made arrangements to visit you. The change after that visit was instant! You have given him hope, pride, ambition and a direction. Instead of fighting on the streets, he’s practising his music with guys of all backgrounds. And he’s really proud of what he’s doing. His mum, of course is delighted and I’m thrilled to have been instrumental, albeit in a very small way, in helping this promising teen. He is now a regular visitor at the YPOD, he looks forward to it, plans and prepares for it – it’s fantastic!
The effects of what you do at the YPOD are far reaching. By giving young people a focus, you are preventing petty crime and stupid fights that spring from misunderstandings and boredom. WHAT AN ACHIEVEMENT!
Thank You so much
And thank you to your team at the YPOD – words really can’t express how grateful my friend and I are for your help.'
June 2008
'Professional Footballer' taster course.
Woking YCMA, in association with Aimhigher Surrey, will be taking a small group of 10 to 15 young people from the Ypod centre on three activities intended to help young people who are interested in ANY kind of sports related career to understand more about the various career paths and courses available to them.Aimhigher is a national project which encourages young people with ability to think about higher education opportunities and shows them that, by completing a higher education course, their job prospects are considerably improved.
The first activity will be a day in Kingston University's fitness laboratories, testing their fitness, power and lung capacity.
For more information about this activity please contact Paul Langrtee on 01483 21 51 21 or email paul.langtree@wokingymca.org.uk.
December 2007
Happy Christmas to all our young people! Thanks for being amazing - Have a great Christmas break. Don't forget the Ypod will shut on Friday 21st December and reopen on Thursday 3rd January.
October 2007
We are starting a new Young Parents Group at the Ypod THIS THURSDAY, 25th October from 12.30pm-2.30pm.
We want to encourage young parents to become all they can be. We will offer you support, friendship, social opportunities and activities and we also plan to offer courses shortly.
Please drop in and see us. The group which launches on Thursday 25th October, will run every Thursday from 12.30-2.30pm at the Ypod centre.
We hope to meet you soon.
September 2007
We are now open on Saturdays from 11am-1pm for drop in!!! Cheryl is leading this session so come down to our first weekend drop in!!!
Woking YMCA celebrated its 1st anniversary in style at the HG Wells Centre on 28th September. During the evening we honoured 3 VIP's from the commuity - Ray Morgan, Chris Ingram and Jid Hussein. We also awarded special awards to 3 of our distinguished young people - Callum Rodgers, Jacon Wilson and Melanie Atkinson. We also had dance and music performances from our young people. Here are some photos of Jacob, Callum and Mel getting their prizes!
August 2007
New Street Dance Class in Woking
Boppin
Woking YMCA is delighted to announce the launch of our brand new dance classes on Saturdays for children and young people.
Boppin is all about having fun, enjoying dance and is suitable for all abilities. Here is our class timetable:
Baby Boppin 10-11am 3-5 years
Mini Boppin 11-12pm 6-8 years
Teenie Boppin 12-1pm 9-12 years
Bop 9-10am 13 years +
Classes will start on Saturday September 8th 2007, but come down to the Ypod on Saturday 1st September between 10am-11.30am for our official launch morning. We will be welcoming the Mayor of Woking, the Woking Mascot "Stanley the Tiger", guest celebrities and the Woking Boppin team!
Cathie Cardy will be teaching the classes. Cathie comes to us with a wealth of experience in musical theatre. As a West End dancer she has appeared in shows such as "Chicago", "Fame", "Rat Pack" and "Fosse"
Boppin was founded by Chloe Bell in 2005 and now has two other schools in Hampshire.
For more info visit www.boppin.co.uk
July 2007:
So, it's July already, I can't believe its gone so fast - hope you are all gearing up for an awesome summer, I know we are!
BATTLE OF THE BANDS: Sins Deep won the Battle of the Bands in Friday 20th July and went home with £100 of Andertons vouchers (www.andertons.co.uk).
SUMMER CAMP: Paul and I will be running a week-long summer camp from 18th-25th August. There are 10 young people from Woking, 10 from Germany and 10 from Italy and every year we travel to one of these countries and spend a week doing lots of activites, including conservation work and lots of social activities. This year the camp is in England and we will be staying in Dorking. It's really great fun and costs only £100 for the week. We still have 2 places left to fill so if you are between 16-20 and would like to come, drop me a line at hannah.robinson@wokingymca.org.uk
I'll post more soon!!
love Hannah x
June 2007:
Happy June to all our young people!!!! Hope you are all doing good...
Lots of exciting this happening this month to tell you about, firstly...we've changed our opening times!!! Because lots of you wanted to stay later on Tuesday evenings we are now going to be open till 9pm every Tuesday!!! On Fridays when we don't have a gig on we will be shutting a little earlier (8pm). This is because lots of you go down to the Christchurch drop in on a Friday night.
As you may know we are having an awesome Battle of the Bands on July 20th. We are now holding auditions, so if you're interested please visit the gig page for more info on how to apply.
Also, for those of you who go to Winston Churchill School, you can now usually see either myself (Hannah!) or Paul on a Wednesday during your lunch break. If you see us standing around come over and say Hi, it's nice to see a familiar face!!!
It's an exciting time for us as we continue to build more activities into our programme. Thanks for supporting us along the way and being awesome young people!!!! Oh, and well done to all our incredible year 11's who've finished their GCSE's - congratulations!!!!
Keep smiling and come see us soon! Hannah x
May 2007:
We have a brand new website! We hope you like it! Its going to have all our latest news and events, info about upcoming gigs and other activities.
“The Noe” is launched on a Monday night! The Noe is for 11-14 year olds and runs on Mondays from 4.30-6.30pm. Its run by CJ, Cheryl and Hannah and we will be doing loads of fun activities and hanging out. So come along and join in! Big thanks to all you guys who have helped set it up. You know who you are!
We’ve got a pretty packed gig schedule for the coming months, have a look at what’s coming up and read some recent reviews under the Music page!
We’ve launched our stencil graffiti workshops on a Tuesday evening from 5-7pm. They are being run by the lovely Ivor and Mel - if you’re thing is art then come down and learn from the best. See the link on the left for more info.
What would you like the Ypod to offer you???
Go to the contact us page and let us know! We are always wanting to hear your views and ideas!
April 2007:
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