Women Friendly Leeds: Covid-19 Women’s Questionnaire
Women's Lives Leeds have launched a survey to gather insights into women's experiences during the lockdown and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women. This important, anonymous information gathered will be fed to decision [...]
LCF Resilience Fund Now Open
Leeds Community Foundation (LCF) have opened up their Resilience Fund for expressions of interest, prioritising and proactively approaching those organisations working with under–represented communities. In the weeks after the COVID-19 crisis started to develop in the UK, LCF moved fast to [...]
Communities of Interest Virtual Session Notes & Recording | 28 May
Through the Communities of Interest network we are hearing about the queries, issues and resilience experienced across communities, and exploring the experience of intersecting identities. Listen back to the most recent virtual session held on 28th [...]
An Unsafe Distance: The Impact of Covid on Excluded People
Doctors of the World has launched a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excluded people in England. Based on a Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) carried out at the height of the COVID-19, An [...]
Coronavirus Pre-booked Community Testing
A Covid-19 walk-to testing facility has launched for people living within walking distance of the Bridge Street community centre, Rider Street, in the LS9 7BQ postcode area of Leeds. The facility is part of a [...]
Devolution – a message for Leeds
A message from Councillor Judith Blake CBE, Leader of Leeds City Council and Tom Riordan CBE, Chief Executive, Leeds City Council We hope you and your families are keeping well. It continues to be a [...]
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Third Sector in Leeds
During the COVID-19 emergency, Leeds has been widely recognised as having responded rapidly and flexibly to the needs of people and communities. Working with strategic partners, the third sector has been at the centre of [...]
10 June | Leeds Employers Forum Virtual Roundtable
Leeds Employers Forum is hosting a free virtual roundtable discussion to enable employers to share lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, drawing on its experience of supporting employees balancing work with unpaid care to benefit [...]
Communities of Interest Virtual Session Notes & Recording | 13 May
An audio recording and notes from the second Communities of Interest virtual session held on 13th May are now available. The session once again brought together a number of organisations representing various communities across Leeds [...]
Synergi Stories: Covid-19 eJournal Survey
The Synergi Stories: Covid-19 eJournal survey aims to capture and document how ethnic minority people with lived experience of severe mental illness and their carers are coping during Covid-19, which will inform the creation of [...]
Resourcing Racial Justice Fund
The Resourcing Racial Justice fund has established a new UK wide-funding pool to support individuals and communities working towards racial justice. The fund aims to provide financial support to organisations, community and grassroots groups that [...]
21 May – 11 June | Digital Champions Online Training Sessions
100% Digital Leeds is hosting a series of virtual Digital Champions training sessions over the next month, aimed at people supporting particular user groups. Digital Champions help the organisation to reach the digitally excluded in [...]
HSJ: Health Inequalities and Covid-19 – Our Greatest Challenge
An article published by the HSJ highlights the efforts of the NHS, local government and others in West Yorkshire to mitigate the greater threat from Covid-19 to more deprived and excluded groups. Written by Robin [...]
Covid-19: Black African Deaths Three Times Higher than White Britons
BBC News has reported on a study which suggests Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said [...]
Communities of Interest Q&A Forum Audio Recording & Notes | 29 April
A recap of a session held on 29th April which brought together 17 organisations representing various communities across Leeds to hear some of the queries and issues stemming from Covid-19 that are being witnessed and [...]