Fast Track City Training
In 2023, Leeds became a Fast Track City, committing to reach zero new HIV, TB and viral hepatitis transmissions by 2030. This webinar will strengthen your understanding of these conditions and how we can work [...]
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance Innovation Award: VCSE Early Diagnosis Funding 2025/26
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance has opened applications for its Innovation Award Scheme 2025/26, with funding available to support VCSE-led early cancer diagnosis activity. This year’s scheme aligns with the local Early Diagnosis [...]
Fruit Works Co-operative 2025 Survey
Fruit Works Co-operative is a social enterprise working across Leeds and Bradford to help communities plant, care for and learn about fruit trees. Their mission is simple and powerful: to enable more people to grow [...]
Radcliffe Trust UK Heritage and Craft Projects Funding
The Radcliffe Trust’s Heritage & Crafts Scheme is open to applications from UK organisations working to support and sustain heritage skills, traditional crafts and related training. The scheme offers funding for specific, clearly defined projects [...]
Shine Bright Long Term Funding
The 7stars Foundation has opened applications for Shine Bright Long Term Funding, offering significant, unrestricted support to charities working with vulnerable children and young people across the UK. This fund is aimed at organisations delivering [...]
Free frontline training to better understand self-harm
Leeds Mind is delivering a series of free workshops designed to support frontline staff working in community settings to develop a deeper understanding of self-harm. The workshops have been shaped by lived experience and informed [...]
Three-week Autism Friendly Festive planner
The Christmas and New Year period can be a busy and sometimes overwhelming time. For many autistic people, the changes to routine, additional social events and uncertainty about what is happening day-to-day can make the [...]
Grow Wild Community Funding 2026
Community and voluntary groups across the UK can now apply to the Grow Wild Community Programme, which is offering grants of £2,000 to help transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife. The [...]
8 January | Leeds Recovery College Taster Afternoon
Try Something New Thursday 8 January 2026, 1pm – 3pmJamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds, Clyde Works, Ingram Road, LS11 9RQFree event – all welcome Leeds Recovery College, in partnership with Arts & Minds, is hosting a [...]
Indices of Deprivation 2025
Why this data matters for the VCSE sector The English Indices of Deprivation (IMD) 2025 have now been published, providing the most up-to-date official measure of relative deprivation across England. For voluntary, community and social [...]
2025 Festive Message
As we look forward to 2026, we’d like to share a message reflecting on 2025, a year of collective successes and challenges. We know this can be a tough time of year for many, for [...]
Healthwatch Leeds Update
What good and bad looks like in local health and care Healthwatch Leeds has been looking at what good and bad experiences of health and care look like for people across Leeds. This work draws [...]
13 January | The Visioning Group Celebration Event – Pyramid
Tuesday 13 January 2026, 12.00pm–3.00pmArtspace, Leeds Art Gallery Pyramid is hosting a major celebration event this January to bring together organisations that took part in IDODP 2025, alongside the public launch of Pyramid View On… [...]
Winter Preparedness: Keeping People Well and Warm
A new 15-minute bitesize winter preparedness webinar from Leeds City Council Public Health is now available. It’s designed for anyone supporting vulnerable people – including VCSE organisations, housing providers, frontline staff and volunteers. You can [...]
Leeds Power of Communities Report – Supporting Health and Care in Neighbourhoods
Volition, lead partner in Forum Central have commissioned a report, reflecting on the Leeds Power of Communities programme of work one year after the majority of project elements have been completed. Reflections on the programme [...]