Community supporters scaled new heights this week as the YMCA Village hosted a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony together with R G Carter construction to mark a development milestone of the youth charity’s main community building ahead of its opening in Spring 2022.
Guests donned hardhats for the occasion, which took place inside the YMCA Community and Activity Village on Lord Hawke Way, in November, and saw visitors enter the new venue for the first time.
To mark the development moving to its next phase, project construction lead R G Carter’s time-honoured tradition paid respects to the structure by pouring beer over a yew tree branch at the building’s highest point during the event.
The main building will be home to a variety of facilities, including everything from a climbing centre, childcare provisions and rentable offices/desk spaces to therapy rooms, a full digital suite and a community café. These provisions will form part of a wider social mobility agenda to bring jobs and apprenticeship opportunities to the surrounding communities.
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