Older People – Leeds Corona Virus Outbreak Plan Grants
Older People - Leeds Corona Virus Outbreak Plan Grants Funding is now available to support and increase the capacity of third sector organisations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Leeds. Funding is provided by [...]
7 – 15 November | Leeds Young Film Festival
Leeds Young Film Festival is taking place in cinemas and online as part of the Leeds International Film Festival 2020 The largest family film event in the UK, Leeds Young Film Festival is now in [...]
3 November | Let’s talk about Facilitation…
Join the Leeds Peer Support Network (LPSN) online meeting to hear what members have been up to and connect with new and experienced peer support practitioners on the topic of facilitation. Date: Tuesday 3 November [...]
CBTU (Community Business Trade Up): £10k Grant & Learning Programme
CBTU is one of the core programmes in the region, that aims to help community businesses recover and become sustainable with a £10k grant, and free learning programme. The SSE in partnership with Power to [...]
Reintroduction of Shielding and Additional Support at Level 3/ Very High Risk
The new three tier risk system announced by Government includes the option for shielding advice to be reinstated in certain cases when an area is at Very High Risk/ Level 3. People in the shielding [...]
Get Help for Your Organisation’s Unmet Needs
Voluntary Action Leeds has recently joined the VCS Emergency Partnership, which can help you get the things you need to help communities. Through its regional structure, the VCS Emergency Partnership (a partnership of big national [...]
Increased Demand on NHS Services: Social Media Messages to Share
The NHS in Leeds has requested help with sharing messages via your social media channels to inform people in Leeds that NHS services are experiencing high levels of demand at present. This means some people [...]
Leeds Cancer Awareness Free Online Training
The Leeds Cancer Awareness team is offering free online training sessions to help raise awareness for cancer signs and symptoms, NHS screening services, ways to reduce risk, screening top tips and the importance of detection. [...]
Covid19: Support and Guidance for Carers | Issue 7
The latest guide to support for anyone looking after a friend or relative with an illness, frailty, disability, mental health issue or an addiction in Leeds is now available: 'Covid19: Support and Guidance for Carers' [...]
Healthwatch Weekly Check-in: End of Life Care in the Community
The latest Healthwatch Leeds weekly check-in is focusing on end of life care in the community (not hospital). This will feed into work the Leeds Palliative Care Network are doing to improve services in community [...]
Health For All’s Raising Aspirations Service
Raising Aspirations, a service from Health For All, is currently recruiting new referrals who may need support in getting into education, training or employment. Raising Aspirations is a whole family approach project offering supportive steps to [...]
Supermarket Offer Toolkit | Updated October 2020
Access the Supermarket Offer Toolkit for the up to date information on supermarket deliveries. Created by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government the toolkit provides information on the policies and pricing of supermarket [...]
#TogetherLeeds Community & Voluntary Sector Bulletin – 15 October
This bulletin is a system wide resource produced for community sector partners on a bi-weekly basis and designed by our friends at Healthwatch. You can read the latest edition here. Please help us get these important [...]
Covid-19 Patient Rehabilitation Booklet
The Post-Covid 19 Rehabilitation team at Leeds Community Healthcare Trust has shared a Covid-19 rehabilitation booklet that aims to help patients that might be struggling with Long Covid symptoms. The booklet can be downloaded here, [...]
Responding to Covid-19: VCS Resilience Survey September 2020
Please complete and share before Friday 9 October! Our first Third Sector resilience survey had a massive impact in raising awareness about the sector - we are now asking what has changed and what next? [...]