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This website is primarily to promote the housing and homelessness work of the Cardiff YMCA Housing Association. The more “traditional work” such as youth and community work and leisure activities is undertaken by the Cardiff YMCA which is a separate organisation, even though both YMCAs are based in the same building. The Cardiff YMCA is working on its own site which will eventually be linked with this one. In the meanwhile we have included pages on their work under the heading "YMCA Activities".

Cardiff YMCA
Housing Association

ANNUAL REPORT: 2006—2007
The Cardiff YMCA Housing Association aims to provide and develop a range of accommodation options for people in housing need. It will offer a supportive environment to those using its services and provide a flexible support service to identified clients. It also aims to reflect the changing housing requirements of the community by liaising with other appropriate agencies and responding to local and national initiatives.
Download the Cardiff YMCA Housing Association: Annual Report.

My name is Donna Cowling ...

I am 35 years of age and have lived at the YMCA hostel in The Walk for nearly a year. Before I came to the hostel I had had my own tenancy, but had suffered a very scary burglary which left me too frightened to go back there. When I left I spent 2 nights literally on the street. I had never slept (if that’s the right word) on the street before and even though I’ve been no angel myself in the past, I was terrified of being out and on my own.

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Cardiff YMCA Job Swap
Mandy Smithson, 05/08/2008
Senior managers at a Cardiff housing association recently traded places with their colleagues on the front-line to find out what its like to deal first hand with the association’s tenants and suppliers.Cardiff YMCA Housing Association ran its Job Swap pro ...
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