SignHealth, the health charity for Deaf people, has translated the Coronavirus (COVID-19) information from Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care into British Sign Language (BSL). You can find the videos here: www.signhealth.org.uk/coronavirus/
Healthwatch Leeds is currently looking at developing their workplan for the next year. They are asking for feedback on what you think they’ve done well and what they might do better. This is also an opportunity to tell Healthwatch [...]
Careview is an app used by people working in the community. It's used in Leeds to look for links between social isolation/loneliness and things that can be observed when walking through a neighbourhood. You can find out more about [...]
Scope, the disability equality charity in England and Wales, is running a programme called Starting Line in Leeds, aimed at helping support people who may be further away from the job market get into work. Starting Line [...]
The Jigsaw Club is a new local, friendly support group for anyone living in Cookridge, Tinshill, Holt Park and Ireland Wood to attend - regardless of age, ability or disability or background. Kirstie Lewis has set up the [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 13 - 19 May and MindWell is marking the week with the launch of a wellbeing guide for Leeds employers. MindWell, the award-winning mental health website for people in Leeds, commissioned [...]
We are delighted to announce that MindWell – the mental health website for people in Leeds – has won the Tech4Good Award at Leeds Digital Festival (LDF) Awards on 30 April. The LDF Awards celebrate the success of [...]
News from Armley Helping Hands, August 2018: Armley Helping Hands are happy to announce that we have secured three years funding with Time to Shine to run “Don’t Call Me Old “ ( July 2018) "The “Don’t [...]
Have you heard of Bee Together? It's a project funded by the Time to Shine Project, aimed at Older People with Learning Disabilities (OPLD). Bee Together aims to connect with socially isolated and lonely OPLD and find [...]
We are delighted to hear that MindWell - the mental health website for people in Leeds - has been named in the BusinessCloud.co.uk Health Tech Pioneers list of the UK's top 51 health tech digital innovations in [...]
MindWell, the mental health website for people in Leeds, is delighted to have won a national Plain English Award. The awards are given to individuals, organisations and websites which champion 'clarity, accessibility and commitment to clear, useful [...]
Physical and Sensory Impairment (PSI) Network and Volition have merged. This is a message from David Blythe and Tessa Denham, co-chairs of the PSI-Volition board: We are pleased to announce that the proposed merger between the PSI [...]
The Centre for Ageing Better has launched a new web resource for communities. It offers information and insight into ways communities can respond to our ageing society and provide a better later life for their residents. The [...]
Women’s Aid, the national domestic abuse charity, and Facebook have launched a new guide to empower women to stay safe online. The guide by Women’s Aid and Facebook provides advice helping women and girls understand online risks, [...]
A report and tips about supporting working carers have been issued by Think Local Act Personal. Leeds City Council’s Adults and Health Directorate has been involved in the project working with colleagues across Yorkshire and the North [...]
The Together Women Project (TWP) is starting up a new one-to-one key-working service based in Leeds. They have an all-female client base, and are keen to make sure female asylum seekers and refugees, and also women from [...]
The Voice of Older Leeds Tenants (VOLT) are looking to recruit new members to their group. They are particularly interested in hearing from BME (black and minority ethnic) tenants over 55, living in a LCC property who [...]
Does your organisation work with expecting parents and parents of young children? Leeds City Council and the NHS in Leeds have produced two new resources to support you when working with families during pregnancy and early years, [...]
We thought we'd draw your attention to an interesting blog on the Airport Parking Shop website. Mental Health and Me: What it’s like to travel with a mental illness contains some interesting figures and quotes from the website's research [...]
from Sarah Howells, Feel Good Factor Feel Good Factor, the health and wellbeing organisation based in Chapeltown, Leeds has announced a second wave of Big Lottery Funding for their partnership project Healthy Lives, Healthy Homes (HLHH) which focuses on [...]
An introduction to the skills required to live a more independent life. This Independent Living programme is designed to support members to develop transferable skills for increased independence and improve their knowledge of the key components required to [...]
You probably already know that local authorities have a duty to safeguard vulnerable adults from abuse. Do you know that this includes financial exploitation, such as scams, fraud and doorstep crime? West Yorkshire Trading Standards is on [...]
