The Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) has exceeded its annual targets to train teachers and youth workers

The Loretta Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) has exceeded its one-year targets to prepare teachers and juvenility workers.

Altogether, the charity has seen 3,837 individuals ended its training programme inwards 2021 to go teachers, instruction professionals and practitioners.

Through a compounding of online and face-to-face sessions, YGAM provided over 440 hours of continuing pro developing (CPD) grooming this year.

Based on these achievements, it expects to stretch more than unity meg at-risk young people over the next 12 months.

Kyle Riding, Head of the National Education Programme at YGAM, praised his teams’ work, saying: “Our dedicated squad has performed exceptionally during another difficult year. This ground-breaking programme continues to get through more communities inwards to a greater extent regions every week.

“This year, our team has worked with some terrific organisations including Coach Core, MET Police and the National Education Union, as wellspring as many community foundations connected to football game clubs including Aston Villa, Everton and Newcastle-upon-Tyne United. We’re real proud of our impact.”

The brotherly love claims to hold complete this effort due to its role inward the Whitney Moore Young Jr. People’s Gambling Harm Programme, a articulate travail delivered inwards partnership with GamCare and supported past members of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC).

This is a four-year programme offering educational resources, grooming and assistance to young people crosswise England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and collaborates with likeminded organisations inward Scotland.

Trainees, or delegates as YGAM calls them, receive approach to over 450 resources which it states are intentional specifically for employment with offspring people elderly 7-25.