Summer Time Out Week 3 – Spaces Available on a Range of Sessions
'Summer Time Out' is in its third week and tickets are available for a range of free, bitesized sessions open to everyone working for/with community, charity, voluntary, and social enterprise organisations in Leeds. Summer Time [...]
Forum Central – Working Together to Overcome Problems during Lockdown and Beyond
Forum Central is featured in this week's Yorkshire Evening Post's Community Focus page, which showcases the work of community groups & charities across Leeds. Volition Director, Pip Goff, spoke to the paper about the strong [...]
Updated Guidance for the Shielding Group in Leeds
Routes to Support This document has been updated to reflect the significant changes to the advice in regards to the pausing of shielding. The document is intended to assist anyone working with people in Leeds [...]
Funeral Guidance Documents
In response to concerns around funeral poverty resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Financial Inclusion team has developed a comprehensive advice leaflet, which contains information on the death registration process, and an overview of the financial [...]
Self-Harm/Eating Disorders Training for Professionals
Battle Scars is offering virtual Q&A-style training for professionals and people who come across self-harm or eating disorders through their work (UK wide). Sessions will take place on the following dates, with further dates to [...]
Leeds’ COVID-19 Volunteers Debrief Service
Additional materials are now available to assist communication around Leeds' Covid-19 Volunteers Debrief Service, established for volunteers who are supporting the Covid response. The support line is operated by a small group of volunteers, managed [...]
Phoenix Health & Wellbeing Counselling & Massage Services OPEN
As of 3 August 2020, the following services are available from Phoenix Health and Wellbeing. FULL-FEE COUNSELLING: Remote Counselling Face-to-Face Counselling Employee-Assistance Counselling To book, call 0113 234 0818 or book online: https://www.phoenixhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/book-counselling/ REFERRED COUNSELLING: [...]
Forum Central’s Laptop Loan Program
Forum Central is currently storing eight laptops available for loan on a request basis to small third sector organisations. Loaner laptops are HP Windows based computers that come with the standard software, power adapter, 6' [...]
Communities of Interest Zoom Session | 6 August
Discussions during the latest Communities of Interest virtual session were focused around a number of issues affecting the communities we work with, including the pause to shielding advice, Test and Trace and the reopening of [...]
Healthy Holidays’ Letter Encouraging Supermarkets to Support Families Over the Summer
As part of the Healthy Holidays Program, FoodWise Leeds and partners from across the city have come together and written a letter encouraging supermarkets to support families over the summer to make healthy choices with [...]
Wesleyan Large Grants Open for Applications
The Wesleyan Foundation was established in 2017 and grants will be considered from charities, constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on: Education – Charities or projects that enhance learning and develop career opportunities. Health [...]
A First ! – LCH and Third Sector Joint Strategy
Briefing paper - 5 minute read The first ever Leeds Community Healthcare Trust Third Sector Strategy 2020-23 Designed to consolidate and increase partnership working, and therefore improve health outcomes for the people of Leeds, [...]
Community & Voluntary Sector Bulletin | 7 August
This bulletin is a system wide resource produced for community sector partners on a weekly basis and designed by our friends at Healthwatch. You can read the latest edition here. In this edition: Our city may [...]
19 August | #SummerTimeOut – Supporting Bereavement at Work
Delivered by Clare Price, an experienced Counsellor and Psychotherapist who has worked in End of Life Care and Older People’s Mental Health. Wednesday 19 August | 1-2.30pm | Zoom This Zoom session focuses on bereavement [...]
Mental Health Paper Resources For People Who Are Not Online
MindWell, the mental health website for people in Leeds, has created a suite of resources which can be downloaded and printed for people who don't have access to online information. The information includes: Finding support [...]