Outreach in Motion

YHYW Worcestershire

The Worcestershire Your Health Team (YHYW) provides free health checks and advice to people in Worcestershire. It is funded in collaboration with NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Worcestershire County Council and Macmillan Cancer Support and aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population.

The bus visits locations across the county, such as supermarkets, community centres, libraries, and workplaces. Services on offer include:

• Blood pressure checks
• Cholesterol tests
• Diabetes risk assessments
• Weight management advice
• Smoking cessation support
• Alcohol awareness
• Mental health support
• Sexual health advice
• Cancer screening information

To learn more about the Your Health team, or to request a visit for an upcoming event, select an option below. 

Mobile Library

The Worcestershire mobile library is a service that brings books and other materials to people who live in rural areas or have difficulty accessing a regular library. It is a large vehicle that has shelves of books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, and magazines that customers can borrow for free.

The mobile library also offers free Wi-Fi, computer access, printing, photocopying, and scanning services. The mobile library visits 160 villages in Worcestershire every four to five weeks, following a regular timetable that can be found on the website.

Customers can also reserve items online or by phone and collect them from the mobile library when it visits their area. The mobile library is a great way to enjoy reading and learning, and to connect with other people in the community.

Kidderminster District Youth Trust

KDYT run youth clubs, offer individual support, deliver educational support programmes from Kidderminster Youth House. We also work in the community through our detached work, KDYT Youth Bus, attending community events, and through working with local schools, charities, colleges, and other great organisations.

Our work is not time limited, and we have members who have been part of KDYT for many years, our work engages around 250 individual young people each week.

Kidderminster Youth House is open 7 days a week and has several rooms available to hire, including 1-1 rooms, recording studio, a full-sized sports hall, boxing gym, fully fitted kitchen and other useful space.

The KDYT Youth Bus operates all year round providing sessions across Wyre Forest, delivered by qualified Youth Workers and KDYT Young Leaders. In school holidays the Youth Bus visits local parks where it is visited by large numbers of young people and their families.

The Youth Bus has gaming facilities, activities and young people tell us it’s a safe place to be. Many young people engaged through the youth bus, will take part in the range of activities offered at KDYT and often will access individual support through our mentoring programme.

We work with a range of partner agencies who are welcome to join us at any events, partners who have, find this to be a really positive way of engaging hard to reach young people and their families, their repeated attendance attesting to this.

If you would like to get involved, please get in touch.

You can find out more at our website at the link below. We are also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook as @KDYTyouth.

Community Transport Worcestershire

Community Transport provides journeys in volunteer-driven cars, minibuses, and fully accessible small vehicles for those who have no access to or are unable to use other forms of transport for a particular journey.

In Worcestershire, there are 14 main schemes covering the whole county.  Nearly all are run by voluntary organisations, and all are not-for-profit.  Drivers can pick-up passengers from their homes and take them to medical appointments, hospitals for visiting, social and leisure activities to the shops and to other services they need. 

The service could also be used to local destinations, for example, to help people access a mobile visiting service in a community which may be outside at a village hall, church, or pub.  Where several people may need to travel together, a special community bus route could be set up.  CT scheme operators are always willing to look at helping to provide transport where it is needed.

Fares are payable and those with a National Bus Pass can travel at a reduced rate. 

Active Youth Outreach Services

We are AYOS, a community interest company based in the Wyre Forest, predominantly working in Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley. Our work is focused on addressing issues surrounding youth disaffection and disengagement.

We tackle this by running outreach days in the local community and holiday clubs within schools, where we offer a range of fun interactive games such as:

• Crazy Golf

• Archery

• Sucker archery

• Multi sports

• Bouncy castle

• Canoeing

• Bushcraft skills

We also have strong ties to a variety of partner providers, who help us reach our outcomes.

The Music Box

The Music Box is a mobile music technology bus that provides workshops in digital music making in Worcestershire and beyond. It is run by Severn Arts and aims to provide hands on experience for young people, where they can be creative and learn to play new instruments and use music making computer software. The bus visits various locations across the county, such as schools, community centres, festivals and parish halls. Some of the services offered by the bus include:

• Bite Size Jams - Basic music skills taught on a range of digital and traditional instruments
• Music Tech and Digital - Hands on experience using the DJ Decks, Drum Machines and Synthesizers
• Music composition - Compose, Rehearse and Record your own music!
• Sing and Perform - use our vocal booth to record your voice
• Bespoke workshops to suit topics in schools or themed festivals

The bus also provides information and signposting to other Severn Arts services, as well as other bus and education services in the county. The bus is staffed by a team of qualified teachers and volunteers who are all DBS checked.