Christmas and New Year 2025–26 Support in Leeds
The Christmas and New Year period can be challenging for many people. Services may operate with reduced hours, routines can change, and pressures around health, money, housing or wellbeing can feel more intense. Leeds Autism [...]
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 [...]
Plan Your Prescriptions Ahead for Christmas 2025
With the Christmas and New Year bank holidays approaching, the NHS in West Yorkshire is encouraging people to plan ahead to help reduce pressure on services and avoid unnecessary stress. Winter is already a busy [...]
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 [...]
Ageing While Black
The experiences of Black Caribbean older people in England A new report from Age UK, Ageing While Black, highlights how racism, discrimination and inequality experienced across a lifetime continue to shape outcomes for Black Caribbean [...]
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… [...]
15 January | Mens Health and Wellbeing
Thursday 15 January 2026, 12 midday till 1pm Nearly all the reasons men experience early ill health are preventable, yet men are often less likely to seek help or access support early. This lunchtime session [...]
Purple Patch Arts and Pyramid Work With Turner Prize Winner Nnena Kalu
Sculptor Nnena Kalu has made history as the first learning-disabled artist to win the Turner Prize, one of the most recognisable awards in contemporary art. Her win, announced in Bradford on 9 December 2025, is [...]
Introduction to the West Yorkshire Insight Library with Murray Forrest
Discover, connect and collaborate with the West Yorkshire Insight Library. We’re hosting a webinar to introduce the West Yorkshire Insight Library — a new regional hub for sharing engagement insight. Murray Forrest from the West [...]
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 [...]