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YMCA is an important space for the LGBTQIA community, including the HIV Positive Health scheme. It provides a healthy alternative to the drinking scene and is an essential support to many.
Daniel supported: Save The Central YMCAA lot of people have no family. The Y was their family and life. For many it was more than a gym. Pleaseface your moral obligations … Gerard
Gerard supported: Save The Central YMCAMe and my Wife go here regularly to swim. We re-joined after my wife was subjected to horrific racial abuse at our last gym. The YMCA is such a welcoming place we feel so comfortable here. All the members and staff we have met have been so welcoming. This is place a great asset to the community. It will be a terrible lose.
Simon supported: Save The Central YMCAMe and my wife recently re-joined the Central YMCA. We came back here after my wife was a victim of terrible racial abuse at our local gym. The YMCA is so welcoming and a real pleasure to use. We have felt nothing but love from the staff and the members. To lose it will be a massive loss to the community and the members. I really hope there is a re-think about the impact this will have on people.
Sarah supported: Save The Central YMCAWe don't need another hotel chain in London. We do however need to protect spaces for health and wellbeing that are affordable to the public.
Catherine supported: Save The Central YMCAYMCA is a charity organisation. If I am not wrong, by law a charity organisation needs to have a consultation period and inform it's members and employees before selling it's premises. Unfortunately, this has not happened and we were informed of the sale and closure of this branch. This is just not acceptable.
Ali supported: Save The Central YMCAThe Central YMCA felt unique to me. Where else would one find such a wide spectrum of people of every age, young and old, shaping a local community with a sense of belonging. This all will be lost forever. We were family.
Kale supported: Save The Central YMCAAs an NHS doctor many of my patients use the YMCA gym, classes and social gatherings. It has been used since the 70’s by many groups and have transformed many lives. This should not be closed because of commercial reasons without consultation with our community and the council should not all this change of use without involving the community and NHS
Dr Shane supported: Save The Central YMCAThe CYMCA is so much more than 'just a gym' with the diversity and inclusivity of the community comprising it's Staff and Members making it uniquely welcoming in London. It is important to emphasise that there is great value in these diverse individuals and groups coming together under one roof.
I joined the CYMCA in 2000 when I referred by my HIV consultant to the Positive Health Scheme; at that time I'd just received my HIV diagnosis and was VERY poorly.
The Positive Health Team supported me to recover my physical health over the following months/years with Personal Training sessions and wellbeing guidance. They also supported my recovery and development of confidence in these kinds of spaces.
Until coming to the CYMCA I hadn't felt safe in gyms, didn't feel as a Gay Man that I belonged or was allowed to be in them. The Positive Health Team and the wider CYMCA Staff & Members helped me to understand that I was welcome in this kind of space, that I belonged, and that I could enjoy caring for my self. This has had the most enormous positive effect on my life; both physically and psychologically.
Additional to the work of the Positive Health Team is that fact of the diversity of the Staff and Members of the CYMCA, and the diversity of other health & wellbeing groups that are part of our wider community. It was and still is the incredible richness of our community that I find to be so healing.
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