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Supported Housing
YMCA Norfolk has two large accommodation facilities in Norwich and also provides supported housing and lodgings in different parts of the county including Norwich, King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth.The YMCA hostel at 46-48 St. Giles Street, Norwich provides: accommodation for 75 people in single study bedrooms; 63,000 meals a year for residents, members and guests. It offers all residents an intensive life and social skills programme to include employment advice and pastoral guidance. A proposal is currently under way to redevelop the Bethel Street side of the St Giles YMCA to provide 40 self-contained units of accommodation. Click here to read more details.
The Central Norwich YMCA, next to the city centre Bus Station, includes 34 en-suite accommodation units for both men and women and was opened in January 2009. More details …In King's Lynn, two smaller supported housing facilities provide 21 spaces for young people at risk.  | | OUR WORK: Just like a family home | | The YMCA Norfolk house, on Woolstencroft Avenue in King's Lynn, is just like many other family homes, the only difference being it has eight teenagers in residence which, as you can imagine, makes it a lively place to be.
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| REAL LIFE: Street-wise Karla | | Karla may be just 19, but she is pretty street-wise. She knows how to look after herself, because she has had to.
Karla left school at 15 and ended up homeless and sofa-surfing with friends.
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| REAL LIFE: Sarah re-started with a blank page | | Sarah had lived in South Africa and Holland, before arriving in Norfolk with her mum, dad, and older brother and sister. Her parents were British-born, but this was her first experience of the UK, and it wasn't a good one.
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 | | Chelsea and Tammy make plans for the future | | REAL LIFE: Chelsea Evans and Tammy White are both young women making plans for the future. A scenario they could not have imagined just a few months ago when both were homeless, one sleeping on a sofa, the other on the streets of Norwich.
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| REAL LIFE: Building sandcastles in the lounge | | Fifteen years ago, Gus Hawes was a trained preacher, before his financial situation forced him to take stock and rethink what God was calling him to. Now he has discovered a new ministry as a support worker to homeless young men in Norwich.
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| REAL LIFE: Lewis is waiting for the gas man | | Lewis, 35, has made an incredible journey, from growing up on one of the most troubled estates of north London and a life of crime and drugs to, within two years, complete rehabilitation and a new career as a drugs counsellor.
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