About Us

You can apply for Youthreach if you:

Are aged
between 15 and 20?

Have you left school
early and need more
qualifications?

Youthreach provides participants with:

  • A second chance to gain education and training
  • A chance to develop new skills
  • A chance to gain national certification and progress to further education and training
  • Guidance support and counselling

What we do

To provide an holistic education, we provide learning opportunities in a formal classroom setting, but also outside the classroom. Events such as industrial exhibitions, art exhibitions, hair and beauty shows are all very informative and worthwhile. Our sporting activities include indoor soccer, gaelic football, swimming, horseriding, bowling, kayaking, archery, rockclimbing and walking. Both our male and female soccer teams were Youthreach All Ireland Indoor Soccer Champions.

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Bus Route Timetable

The Youthreach Bus leaves Castlebar each morning and travels to Westport and from there on to Youthreach Ballinrobe. The bus follows back along the same route again in the evening. Students may be collected anywhere along the route at pre-arranged pick-up points and times.

Evening

Departs Castlebar (Centra, Station Road) 8.00amDeparts Ballinrobe 4.35pm
Departs Castlebar (Shaws /opposite Caseys Centra) 8.10amArrives Partry 4.45pm
Departs Westport (Altamont Street) 8.30amArrives Westport 5.05pm
Departs Partry 8.50amArrives Castlebar 5.30pm
Arrives Ballinrobe Youthreach 9.15am

Student No. 9

Since leaving youthreach i have been to college, i studied motor tech for about 5 month’s or so in Westport, however with not having enough funding to keep up the travel and other expense, i decided to drop out and find full time work for what i hoped would be a year. However i ended up with a full time job as a shop assistant. I went on to being the key holder and taking up the roll as an assistant manager. I then left that job in 2019, i went straight back to education then in the local family research centre. I am currently in level 4 of Information and Communications Technology Skills and also doing my ECDL.

I have to give great credit to everyone at Youthreach Ballinrobe for my progress in life so far. Before joining Youthreach i was a really shy person who struggled in school due to being afraid of asking for help. However with youthreach and all the teacher’s there they made me feel comfortable and very happy to ask questions and learn in a much better way.