Halesowen and Dudley Yemeni Community Association (HDYCA)

Halesowen and Dudley Yemeni Community Association (HDYCA) seeks to represent and meet the particular needs of Yemeni, Arabic speaking communities and ethnic groups in the Borough of Dudley as well as extending its services and activities to other disadvantaged communities within the local area.

HDYCA achieves this by providing services to those available in the mainstream sector and also by acting as an interface/contact point between the community and various service providers.

Our services and activities are benefited by those who tends to be of low employment and of low skills base due to language and cultural barriers which make it difficult for them to access mainstream services and organisations. HDYCA works together and has partnerships with local authorities such as Dudley MBC, West Midland Police, DCVS, NHS and local Schools, colleges and churches. Our services and activities deliver in our centre  include:

• Advice and guidance 

• Arabic GCSE 

• Social and recreational gathering/awareness  

• Health and fitness awareness sessions for women

• Job Search

• Youth club 

• Room hire facilities

• Quran and Arabic classes for young women 15-25 years old

• (ESOL) classes for women 

• IT learning suite for women

• Family mediation

• Friday (Jumma) sermon prayers and awareness lecture 

• Quran pronunciation and recitation classes

• Skills development programmes

• Confidence building workshops

• Translation/interpreting  

• Bereavement support

• Volunteering and mentoring programmes

• Community outings

• Quran and Arabic Classes for women

• Third party reporting centre 

• Halesowen Cultural Centre Registered a Venue for Islamic Marriage ( Nikah) and Civil service .

• Slimming World  

• Step to work workshop