Leeds Health and Care Partnership Future in Mind
The Leeds Health and Care Partnership is looking for a provider to support the Future in Mind: Leeds Programme Board. The service provider will support a team of ‘MindMate Ambassadors’ (up to 8 young people, [...]
Director of Public Health ‘In Our Shoes’ film and report
Report (published July 2023) highlights work ongoing in Leeds to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people’s health and wellbeing. The ‘In Our Shoes’ film and annual report by Leeds City Council’s [...]
Health and Care Leaders Meeting Notes
We were delighted to host the Health and Care Leaders meeting on 3 July 2023 in person. It was fantastic to feel the positive energy in the room, after so many Zoom meetings! It's the [...]
Arts Organisation Development Programme
This programme is designed to help community groups get started, get involved with arts & culture, build community participation and access funding. Voluntary Action Leeds (VAL) will be running 20 free workshops at community venues [...]
Statement of Common Purpose
Leeds City Council and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust have released a Statement of Common Purpose. About the statement Following a long and shared history of joint working to respond to the needs of the [...]
Become a Health and Wellbeing Champion
Access free training to become a Health and Wellbeing Champion Leeds Health and Care Academy is aiming to create 800 Health and Wellbeing Champions to enhance employee health and wellbeing in the workforce. To help [...]
LGBTQIA+ Crisis Tools
Crisis Tools have created a guide which explores the unique challenges and obstacles young LGBTQIA+ people face when accessing mental health crisis support. What is included in the guide? The guide includes: An exploration into [...]
New Films for Health and Care Staff to Help Prevent Suicide
A group of volunteers with direct experience of the impact of suicide have created a series of short films to reinforce good practice amongst staff working in health and care. The short video ‘Preventing suicide: [...]
Small Charities, Large Impact: A Blog from LOPF CEO Jo Volpe
As part of Small Charity Week 2023, which took place on 19-23 June, Leeds Older People's Forum (LOPF) CEO Jo Volpe wrote a blog which reflects on LOPF's role and impact as a small charity. [...]
Funding Opportunities Available for UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Leeds City Council will have funding opportunities available under the ‘Communities & Place’ category for the new UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). The Council envisages that in the first round of funding they will be [...]
Compassionate Leeds Strategy
Compassionate Leeds has finalised their strategy titled: ‘Compassionate Leeds: Trauma Awareness prevention and response strategy for children, young people and families’. Read the Compassionate Leeds Strategy 2023 - 2031 (pdf, 41 pages). This strategy is aimed [...]
Contribution of the VCSE sector in Yorkshire and the Humber – report
Durham University, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has conducted research on the roles charities have played in health and care, across West Yorkshire. The research was conducted to analyse the [...]
Your Home, Your Choice Campaign
West Yorkshire Housing Partnership launch the 'Your Home, Your Choice' campaign. This campaign has been launched in in partnership with Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Wakefield and District Housing, and Together [...]
Adverse Weather Guidance
This guidance offers advice on caring for people most at risk during hot weather. It is part of a wider collection of documents providing guidance on how to minimise the health effects of adverse weather and to [...]
New Sustainable Community Challenge Fund
ChangeX, supported by Accenture, has launched a £36,000 fund for projects that help build thriving and sustainable communities The fund looks to support groups that want to build thriving and sustainable communities across Leeds. These [...]