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Summer 2025: LGBT Sports and Movement Programme
We’re excited to announce our LGBT Summer Sports and Movement Programme! MYPAS is running a sports and movement programme this summer with LGBT and questioning young people who are 12-21. A wide variety of activities will be offered to offer supported sessions of a variety of activities. LGBT young people have a different relationship with movement than their…
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Kind²Mind Big Give: one donation, twice the impact
MYPAS is delighted to announce that we have been selected to take part in the 2024 Kind²Mind match funding campaign, organised by the Big Give. The Big Give is partnering with over 150 amazing mental health charities, helping people to feel seen, heard, and supported. Donate to MYPAS once and have twice the impact during…
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Looking after your Wellbeing during Assessments
Fran, MYPAS’ Business Development Manager offers her top tips to help young people reduce the stress and anxieties brought on by assessments, deadlines and coursework. Spring is upon us. Spring is also the time in which many young people across Midlothian and East Lothian are submitting coursework and revising for SQA assessments during the Easter…
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Setting Running Goals for 2024
Alison Binns, MYPAS Board member, shares her journey going from someone who hadn’t run before to someone who enjoys running regularly. Alison reflects on the importance of exercise and its benefits for your mental health and wellbeing. I started running regularly in my early 40s. It was so hard at the start, the first 10…
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Job Vacancy – Counsellor (Young People) – 17.5 hours per week
£33,137 to £35,034 pro rata Contract for six months Based in Dalkeith. The postholder will be responsible for providing counselling to young people aged 12-18 within a holistic service. The postholder will also develop and promote further therapeutic work both within and outwith MYPAS. Qualified to Diploma level (or equivalent) in a counselling therapeutic discipline,…
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2024 Bluebell Trail Run
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 The Bluebell Trail Run Committee is thrilled to announce that the Bluebell Trail Run is back for 2024! Lace up your shoes and get ready to hit the trails with us. Entries are now OPEN! 🏃♂️🏃♀️ Enter here: https://www.bluebelltrail.co.uk/ Whether you’re up for the challenge of the 5k or aiming to…
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Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2024
Edinburgh Marathon Festival is BACK for 2024. After a successful EMF2023 we want to make 2024 event BIGGER, and we need you to make that happen! Pick your distance, lace up and take on the challenge. Join in one of the UK’s most popular running events and experience the Edinburgh Marathon Festival on 25/26 May…
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Mental Health is a Universal Right. World Mental Health Day 2023.
When designing and delivering our services, MYPAS works hard to ensure that the rights of children and young people are protected as well as meaningfully involving young people and their families in our service design. Such an approach seeks to ensure that our services are available, accessible, acceptable, of high quality, and participative, with a…
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Nitrous Oxide: the risks are not to be laughed at
Nitrous Oxide (more commonly known as Laughing Gas) is in the news. Once again, a high profile English Premiership footballer has been photographed appearing to inhale what appears to be Nitrous Oxide from a balloon. More importantly, however, is the UK Government’s announcement that Nitrous Oxide is due to be banned for illicit use. It…
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Positive Approaches to Risk
Guidance for those working with young people around risk taking behaviours MYPAS is holding two FREE webinars for professionals working with young people in the Midlothian local authority area, exploring themes in the Positive Approaches to Risk handbook. In October 2020, partners across Midlothian, including Midlothian Council, NHS Lothian and the Third Sector, launched the…
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