Bright Beginnings ensures that children in need are able to start the school year off right with new school supplies, shoes, clothes, and confidence. Our goal this year is to take 5 children shopping for back to school clothes and supplies.

You can help!

• Our goal is $750, we need $331 to meet our goal. You can sponsor a child for $150 but a donation of any amount will help!
• You can also donate school supplies.
• Volunteer to shop with a child!

We will be shopping August 13th.

Call Sheila Pillath at 725-1488 to donate or volunteer.

Youth Super Sports-trained coaches focus on fundamental skills, good sportsmanship, fitness skills, and character development.  Fitness concepts include wellness for the heart, lungs, and muscles, safe play, flexibility, and healthy eating.  Rookies through Winners Levels progress by developing individual skills and adding more skills and rules.

Summer is, by far, the busiest season at the Y.  The pool is overflowing with kids learning how to swim and be safe around water.  Our bays and rivers are hosting our sailing camp kids.  Kids in all our programs are learning about healthy living habits through our 5-2-1-0 initiative-each day, five fruits and veggies, two hours or less of screen time, one hour of physical activity and zero sugary drinks.  Adults are at the ball field knocking it out of the park to get fit while having fun.  Our fitness center and group exercise classes are full of folks working toward their wellness goals-whether it is to lose weight, lower blood pressure, or to maintain enough strength for an improved quality of life.  

Our staff and volunteers are blessed daily to be able to interact with youth, adults and families who are doing their part to be whole and healthy.

But for many, the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive through the Y eludes them for financial reasons.  For one in five Y members and one in ten Y program participants, these same programs and services are available only because we have people in Mathews who understand that in every community there is work to be done and in every heart there is power to do it. They put this belief into action with a donation to the Mathews Family YMCA Strong Communities campaign.

Please help us ensure that kids and adults alike have their best summer, their best year, and their best healthy lifestyle by making the largest contribution you can to the Mathews Family YMCA.  As always, a donation to the Mathews Family YMCA, a non-profit, charitable organization, is tax deductible and benefits youth and families right here in Mathews.  You can mail a donation to the Y, drop it off at the Y, or click HERE and select the Mathews branch. 

Thank you for demonstrating your concern for a whole and healthy community by making Mathews Family YMCA Strong Communities Campaign one of your choice local charities.