Life On Hold: Neurodivergent people and healthcare experiences November 2023
West Yorkshire Voice and HealthWatch invited feedback from people with experience of neurodivergence to talk about some of the key issues in healthcare. They offered a chance for neurodivergent people and carers to have their [...]
AutistiCon 2024 – Leeds Autism Event
AutistiCon, our annual autism information event for Leeds, is back for 2024! The date and venue have both been confirmed for this year. The event will take place on Tuesday, 11 June 2024 from 9.30am [...]
Growing Strength in Communities – Build the skills of your staff and volunteers
Do you want £1,000 to build the skills of your organisation's staff and volunteers? LCAN (Leeds Community Anchor Network) and Forum Central would like to invite you to apply for funding and capacity building to [...]
Share Your Experiences of Home Care Support with Leeds City Council
Do you receive home care support or support people who do? If so Leeds City Council (LCC) would like to speak to people who have home care support arranged through LCC, to share their experiences [...]
Check out the IDODP Highlights Videos
IDODP ‘23 influenced and included around 900 people in its extended pan-disability scope this time around. To celebrate this, we've created two videos to highlight; what happened on the day at the marketplace event and [...]
Employment Task Group features in Community Living Article
Our Learning Disability Development worker, Shaun Webster MBE and the work of our Autism and Learning Disability Employment Task Group has been featured in an article in the Community Living magazine. The article focusses on [...]
Orange Travel Wallets Scheme for West Yorkshire
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has recently launched a new initiative called the Orange Travel Wallet scheme, to help people with communication difficulties or disabilities to use public transport. The bright orange wallet is a [...]
Safeguarding Adults training for Volunteers
Leeds City Council have developed a free Safeguarding Adults training course for volunteers across Leeds. This training gives an overview of Safeguarding Adults specifically aimed at volunteers in Leeds. It covers: What safeguarding adults is [...]
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 [...]
30 Nov 2023 International Day of Disabled People Marketplace Event IDODP
Transformative, Inclusive, Innovative and Collaborative! Linda Nield, Senior Commissioning Officer at Working Age Adults Commissioning Team: "It was a very bustling event, wasn’t it? Really well attended I was pleased to see!" The International Day [...]
IDODP Marketplace event is almost here!
That's right, the Leeds For All International Day of Disabled People event is approaching fast - we hope you're as excited as we are. With only a week left to go, we wanted to update [...]
SEND Survey for ethnically diverse young people
Do you work with SEND children and young people from minoritised ethnic communities? If so, SEND Youth Voice would like your help in their research project. They are conducting a survey interested in looking at [...]
Any Work that Wanted Doing: Exhibition Tours
An exciting exhibition is now open as part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, linking the past and present through the work of several disabled artists. Any work that wanted doing features new artwork by [...]
Free Safeguarding Adults Training for Volunteers
Leeds City Council are providing free Safeguarding Adults training courses for volunteers across the city. The courses cover: what safeguarding adults is and why it is important the role and responsibility of the volunteer in [...]
A Travel Blog from LOPF’s Jenni Scott
Leeds Older People's Forum Administrator Jenni Scott has written an article about the complexities of technological advancements in transportation. Jenni speaks about how these advancements can leave even the most tech savvy feeling confused. And [...]