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Consultation on Trans Guidance in Schools

By |12th January 2024|Communities of Interest, Health & Care, Inclusion, MailChimp, News|

The Department for Education is running a consultation to get views on the content of a non-statutory guidance for schools and colleges to help them make decisions in relation to gender-questioning children. Aim of the [...]

Independent and Confidential Support for the Leeds Health and Care Sector

By |12th January 2024|Communities of Interest, Cost of Living, Health & Care, MailChimp, News|

The Welfare Officer at Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) can offer help to any staff members of the Leeds health and care sector who may need support during stressful and uncertain times. The support they [...]

Welcome Spaces Call for Expression of Interest for 2023/24

By |9th January 2024|Communities of Interest, Harnessing the Power of Communities, Health & Care, Local Care Partnerships|

January 2024 Update: Second call-out for expressions of interest in specific communities of interest and location. To help ensure there is good spread of Welcome Spaces across Leeds and in relation to specific areas of [...]

Household Support Fund Leeds – Cost of Living Grants

By |3rd January 2024|Communities of Interest, Cost of Living, Funding, Harnessing the Power of Communities, Health & Care, MailChimp, Older People|

The Household Support Fund (HSF) is a Central Government fund to help people in need pay for food and fuel.  Applications have now closed. This funding was administered by Forum Central for organisations to distribute [...]

Community Ownership Fund

By |20th December 2023|Communities of Interest, Cost of Living, Funding, Health & Care, MailChimp|

The next application window for the Community Ownership Fund (round three window three) will opened on December and will close on Wednesday 31 January 2024. The government is providing funding over four years to support community groups [...]

Living Potential Community Garden

By |18th December 2023|Communities of Interest, Health & Care, MailChimp, Mental Health, News|

Living Potential, based near Wetherby, is setting up a Community Garden to support volunteers. They are open to referrals for adults experiencing low confidence, anxiety, depression or social isolation to volunteer and receive informal support [...]

Compassionate City award for Leeds Warm Spaces 22/23

By |18th December 2023|Communities of Interest, Cost of Living, Health & Care|

Warm Spaces 22/23 wins Community Project of the Year at Leeds Compassionate City Awards. The Leeds Compassionate City Awards recognise the outstanding individuals, groups and organisations who make a difference to their communities. This year’s [...]

Food and Homelessness Provision Over the Festive Period

By |15th December 2023|Communities of Interest, Cost of Living, Health & Care|

Leeds Food Aid Network (LFAN) has created a document which provides information on the different groups providing food and homelessness support over the festive period. The document contains dates and locations of the provisions from [...]

Research study into Inflammatory Arthritis

By |1st December 2023|Communities of Interest, Harnessing the Power of Communities, Health & Care, MailChimp, News, Older People, PSI|

Do you or someone you know have inflammatory arthritis? If so, a team from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) would like to hear from you. They want to talk to people about how [...]

16 Days of Activism and White Ribbon Day 2023

By |22nd November 2023|Communities of Interest, Events, Health & Care, MailChimp, News|

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that commences on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights [...]

Synergi-Leeds awarded Mental Health Innovation of the Year

By |20th November 2023|Communities of Interest, Featured, Harnessing the Power of Communities, Health & Care, Inclusion, MailChimp, Mental Health|

Forum Central is enormously proud to be part of the Synergi-Leeds partnership. We'd like to congratulate everyone in the team and beyond who have worked so hard - it's a fantastic achievement. We look forward [...]

Leeds Cultural Investment Programme

By |14th November 2023|Communities of Interest, Funding, Health & Care, MailChimp|

The Leeds Cultural Investment Programme (LCIP) replaces the arts@leeds and Leeds Inspired funding schemes. It builds on the strengths of these long-running programmes and offers both project (one-off) funding and revenue (ongoing) funding for creative [...]

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