Become a Winter Friend
Want to help older or vulnerable people get the vital support they need to get through this Winter? Become a Winter Friend. All you have to do is visit bit.ly/2OwWTg7 for a 20 min e-briefing, collect free resources [...]
FREE 2.5 hr First Aid Awareness Training
By Don Buxton, Community Engagement Trainer, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Here are further details of the FREE 2.5 hr First Aid Awareness courses which we are currently offering to communities across the Yorkshire Ambulance Service area [...]
DIAL LEEDS Winter Wellbeing
DIAL LEEDS are really pleased to announce that we have been awarded small grants from Leeds Public Health and the Hill Dickinson Foundation in order to offer vulnerable people support this winter. Could you please refer any [...]
Home Office Hate Crime Community Projects Fund Launch
Home Office Hate Crime Community Projects Fund Year 3 Launch The Home Office has launched year 3 of the Hate Crime Community Project Fund. The application window is now open until the 7 December 2018. The scheme funds [...]
The Leeds Directory is Changing
A Message from Leeds City Council Adults & Health Directorate You may be aware the Leeds Directory information service is in the process of changing. The service will be brought back in-house to LCC Adults and Health Directorate [...]
Small Talk Saves Lives
Samaritans in Leeds recently spent time talking to commuters at Kirkstall Forge and Horsforth train stations to encourage the public to act if they notice someone who may be at risk. A new phase of the Small [...]
PATH Vacancies: Project Keyworker & Employment Support Worker
Project Keyworker Responsible to: PATH Business and Project Manager Salary: £22,952 per year, pro rata (plus 5% pension contribution) Hours of work: 22.2 hours per week, Part-time (Working 3 days weekly on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) Period [...]
Touchstone Vacancies: Advocacy Kirklees Advocate (3 posts)
Advocacy Kirklees Advocate Salary: £20,852 pa/pro rata 3 x roles up to 37.5 hours The role will be based in Dewsbury Advocacy Kirklees is a new advocacy service in Kirklees, and brings together the Care Act, Independent [...]
Age UK Leeds Vacancy: Wellbeing Coordinator
Wellbeing Coordinator Connect Well Salary: £21,074 (pro rata) Hours: 17 per week Funded until 31st August 2018 Age UK Leeds are looking for a Wellbeing Coordinator for the Connect Well, Social Prescribing Service. The service is available in North [...]
Connect in the North Moving
Connect in the North will move on 3 December to Unit 42, Sugar Mill Business Park, Oakhurst Avenue, Beeston LEEDS LS11 7DF. They are keeping the same phone number 0113 270 3233. There may be a period on [...]
MAECare Vacancy: Administration and Communications Officer
Moor Allerton Elderly Care (MAECare) wishes to recruit a new Administration and Communications Officer Salary: £17,140 p.a. pro rata Closing Date: 10am Monday 26th November 2018 Reference: MA 103 Hours: 24 per week MAECare is one of [...]
Community Links Vacancy: Dementia Support Worker
Dementia Support Worker £17,391 per annum (pro rata), Variable Hours per week (a minimum of 20 hours is required) Ref: ER155 Compassionate, Caring, Understanding - Does this describe you? We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join [...]
New IAPT Group for Older Adults
Community Links and Leeds Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) are proud to announce our ‘Live Well in Later Life’ group for older adults, a 4 week course for those who may have experienced changes in mood, sleep or worry [...]
Leeds Operational Winter Group Established
Leeds operational winter group established in response to health and care system pressures This is the first message from the newly established Operational Winter Group to all staff working in the health and care system in Leeds, [...]
4 December | Feel Connected: Finding Ways Out of Isolation and Loneliness
Forum Central PSI Event: Feel Connected: Finding Ways Out of Isolation and Loneliness Date: Tuesday 4 December, 12.30 - 3.30pm at The HEART Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, LS6 3HN To celebrate International Day of Disabled People, Forum Central are excited [...]
Big Change Leeds: working together to get people on the streets the help they need
Big Change Leeds is a new scheme that has been launched (partnership with LCC, Leeds Community Foundation, Third Sector orgs working supporting homeless people and Leeds BID). Big Change is a non-profit organisation that connects local businesses, [...]
New Leeds Adult Social Services Workforce Strategy
You can download the new Leeds Adult Social Services workforce strategy which sets out the four key priorities for Leeds: Leeds Adult Social Services Workforce Strategy
Would You Like to Host A Taste of Love and Spice
A feast of dance, music and food to rekindle the senses A Taste of Love and Spice has been developed especially for older people and for performing in community venues such as sheltered accommodation, care homes and [...]
Cascading Leadership Programme 2019
Cascading Leadership: supporting peer-to-peer leadership development in the voluntary and community sector The Kings Fund Cascading Leadership programme is once again open for new applications. The programme is open to leaders from all health and wellbeing charities, from [...]
BAME Dementia Support Group
This group is for those living with dementia, their carers, family and Friends. It offers a relaxed stress free and friendly space where you can discuss topics ans issues about dementia For more details tel: 0113 378 [...]
100% Digital Inclusion Launch
The Council is trying to tackle the issue of digital exclusion, especially with the Universal Credit roll out coming. Led by Leeds libraries there are three officers to offer help and training, 4G i pads (so you [...]
Homelife Leeds are on the Move
Homelife (Leeds) Ltd registered office will be relocating to a new address from 1 November 2018. Their new address will be: Homelife (Leeds) Ltd C/O Leeds Society For Deaf & Blind People, St Marys Street, Leeds LS9 7DP Addresses for individual supported living homes will [...]
Battle Scars Groups and Events
Battle Scars is a small Leeds-based charity focusing on providing support to anybody affected by self-harm: those who self-harm (from cutting, to eating disorders, to self-neglect - any method apart from drugs and alcohol) and those who [...]
City of Sanctuary Mental Health Resource Pack
An excellent resource has been produced by Solace and Freedom from Torture on behalf of City of Sanctuary This resource pack will help you understand the circumstances of refugees and asylum seekers’ lives and how these circumstances affect their [...]
New Online Resource for Carers of People With Psychosis
Are you interested in online support for caring for a friend or family member affected by psychosis? A new online resource for carers of people with psychosis has been developed called COPe-support. COPe-support provides peer support, information [...]
Community Links Training Courses for November
Community Links has a busy month of training courses line up for November They have their brand new ‘Understanding & Working with Loss’ starting. They also have a safeTALK suicide prevention training session and a Mental Health First Aid session funded by Mentally [...]
A Connected Society: A strategy for tackling loneliness
Laying the foundations for change This strategy sets out the approach to tackling loneliness in England. It marks a shift in the way we see and act on loneliness, both within government and in society more broadly. [...]