Living Potential Community Garden
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 [...]
Be A Winter Friend
Would you like to sign up to become a Leeds Winter Friend and support those around you who may be more vulnerable at this time of year? What is a winter friend? A Winter Friend is [...]
Compassionate City award for Leeds Warm Spaces 22/23
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 [...]
Armley Helping Hands Presented With Award
Armley Helping Hands has been presented with Directorate nomination for Adults and Health Award of Excellence 2023 for partner of the year. The Board of Trustees, Staff and Volunteers had the opportunity to attend the [...]
Food and Homelessness Provision Over the Festive Period
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 [...]
Men’s Health Unlocked in Parliament
Read all about MHU in Parliament and more in the December newsletter here!
Welcome to our new members: Season Well CIC & Meshebah Community Interest Company
We'd like to give our newest member organisations a warm welcome to the Forum Central partnership! Season well CIC Season Well is a social enterprise whose purpose is to inspire and enable more people to [...]
Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Healthy Leeds Plan
On 7 December the Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board and Leeds Health and Care Partnership are launching plans aimed at making Leeds a healthier city and tackling health inequalities. The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets [...]
System Pressures and Financial Position Updates
Key updates about ongoing system pressures and finances have been shared with Forum Central by our statutory partners. The source information has been added to this post as links. We've also included a brief overview [...]
Winter Wellbeing Messages for the Older People Workforce
The risks for vulnerable groups during winter increase. To raise awareness of this and to increase understanding of services and support available for those most at risk Leeds Older People's Forum and Public Health hosted [...]
Research study into Inflammatory Arthritis
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 [...]
Remembering What’s Forgotten 2024
New hybrid exhibition amplifying community and lived experience narratives to inspire racial justice in Leeds mental health services announced today A new 12-month hybrid programme and exhibition championing community and lived experience narratives to tackle [...]
The Feel Good Group
Feel Good is a group delivered by Women's Health Matters in partnership with People in Action. It is a course for women with learning disabilities and autism that explores topics such as healthy relationships, looking [...]
Synergi-Leeds awarded Mental Health Innovation of the Year
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
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 [...]