Community Champions project extended
The Community Champions project has been extended until the end of March 2022, with the aim of continuing to recruit volunteers to share accurate health messages around Covid-19 and the vaccine with our communities. There [...]
End Violence Against Sex Workers
We stand in solidarity with and remember sex workers affected by violence as part of the annual worldwide Campaign around Ending Violence Against Sex Workers. From 01 Dec, Basis Yorkshire is running 17 Days of [...]
LGBT+ Mapping update
This LGBT+ mapping report was launched in 2016. It has recently been updated but we would like to know if there are any gaps, missing information or if anything on the listing is out of [...]
Skills for Supporting Digital Inclusion
100% Digital Leeds are running a free course to give you the skills you need to be able to support the people you're working with to engage with digital and get online. Attend this fun [...]
Mitzvah Day Collections for Leeds Women’s Aid
Leeds Jewish Housing Association is collecting donations for Leeds Women’s Aid and they want your help. Mitzvah Day, the Jewish-led day of social action takes place on 21 November this year. Leeds Jewish Housing Association [...]
02 Nov | Communities of Interest Evaluation
Join Forum Central on Tuesday 02 November 12.15pm for the results of the Communities of Interest Network evaluation. The Communities of Interest Network was established by Forum Central to ensure the flow of information and [...]
15 Oct | I Choose Joy
As part of Black History Month 2021: The Leeds BME Hub Present – ‘I Choose Joy’. An immersive wellness event, centring culturally diverse communities. Finding peace amid unrest Between protesting and demonstrating following the 2020 murder [...]
21 Oct | Diabetes care working group
In Leeds, we want to ensure people within communities of interest are empowered to lower their risks associated with diabetes and access healthcare when they need to. What is diabetes? Diabetes is a condition that [...]
Welcome: Freedom4Girls
We are delighted to welcome Freedom4Girls, one of our latest members to join Volition and Forum Central. Freedom4Girls is a UK-registered charity fighting period poverty. Founded by Tina Leslie in 2016, they have been working [...]
Mental health inequalities experienced by young people from minority ethnic groups
People from minority ethnic groups are more likely to experience mental health problems and less likely to receive good quality, timely support that meets their needs. This update provides an overview of the work taking [...]
Changes to the Healthy Start Scheme
Healthy Start, the free scheme which gives payments to parents every 4 weeks to spend on healthy food is going digital and opening up to people with no recourse to public funds. Digitalisation of the scheme The [...]
Tackling Health Inequalities in Leeds
Join the Healthy Communities Together Partnership for their series of Adaptive Action events focused on Tackling Health Inequalities in Leeds. The events focus on the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees, sex workers, Gypsies and [...]
ABCD Community Pathfinder Grant Funding
Leeds City Council is looking for organisations with a commitment to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to work with them to deliver new pathfinder schemes in Leeds. About the funding Four grants of up to [...]
Root Out Racism
Everyone at Forum Central and its partners Volition and Leeds Older People's Forum proudly support root out racism, the anti-racism movement launched today by West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP). [...]
Support for CEV people in Leeds
The routes to support for clinically extremely vulnerable people in Leeds has been updated. Details of this citywide support delivered by our member organisations can be read above or downloaded here.