Achievements
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2011 – EYST awarded largest funding (to date!) from the Big Lottery People & Places Programme to deliver the My Space Project – to develop the EYST Drop In Centre into a multi-functional community resource centre serving and bringing together diverse sections of the community. |
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2011 – EYST wins Welsh Assembly Government’s Outstanding Youth Centre Project Award in the Wales Youth Work Awards 2011. | |
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2010 – EYST organises and holds first ever National BME Youth Conference in the Liberty Stadium in Swansea, to highlight issues affecting ethnic minority young people in Wales. Over 100 delegates attend from all over Wales, and conference is opened by Wales’ most senior police officer Chief Constable Peter Vaughan. … | |
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2009 – EYST formally opens the Urban Youth Drop Centre in Swansea – a State of the Art Youth Drop In Centre with Gym, IT Suite, Pool Table, Table Tennis Mentoring Rooms, and much more. … | |
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2009 – EYST expands its constitution to also serve young ethnic minority females…. | |
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2009 – EYST wins Best Community Safety Project and Overall Best Project in Swansea Lord Mayor’s Community Regeneration Awards 2009…. | |
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2007 – EYST goes head to head with the Scouts and wins Public Telephone Vote in Big Lottery Fund’s People’s Millions Competition to win £49,000 to refurbish and create a new Youth Drop In Centre – to meet its growing client numbers. | |
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2006 – EYST ‘Highly Commended’ in Swansea Lord Mayor’s Community Regeneration Awards Outstanding Youth Contribution. | |
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2005 – EYST is constituted by a group of ethnic minority young people in Swansea. EYST were awarded their first funding of £5,000 from Swansea Development Fund…. and grew from there. |