July – September | ‘Inspire to Inspire’ community art exhibition
Date: 8 July - 30 September Time: (Tuesday to Saturday) 12 pm – 8 pm Location: New York Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds City Centre, LS2 7BT “Inspire to Inspire” is a free public community art exhibition and [...]
14 August | Stronger Together: Supporting LGBTQ+ Mental Wellbeing
Date: Thursday 14 August Time: 6 pm - 7.30 pm Location: New York Square, Leeds City Centre Join us for an insightful and empowering panel discussion dedicated to exploring the unique mental health and wellbeing [...]
Afrikindness and LMWS Survey: Black Mental Health in Leeds
Calling all people within Black, African, and Caribbean communities in Leeds. Afrikindness, in collaboration with Leeds Mental Wellbeing Services, is conducting an important evaluation of people's experiences, needs and opinions about mental health. We're looking [...]
Leeds City Council: Standing Together Against Discrimination
Leeds City Council has recently launched a campaign taking a powerful stand against all forms of discrimination. "What makes us different, makes us Leeds" This high visibility campaign reaffirms the Council's commitment to tackling all [...]
New: Free MindWell training – Using MindWell to Support Others
Date: Thursday 26 June 2025 Time: 11.30 am Location: Online Want to feel more confident signposting to mental health support in Leeds? Join a free 30-minute online session delivered by MindWell, the city’s mental health information [...]
10-11 September | ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
Date: 10 and 11 September 2025 (2 day course) Time: 8.30 - 16.30 Location: TBC To teach Suicide First Aid skills to raise confidence and knowledge and to familiarise participants with the most widely used [...]
19 – 25 May | Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2025
Creativity and Wellbeing Week is led by the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) and London Arts and Health. This year's theme is 'New Horizons', encouraging curiosity and listening within the Creative Health sector. Creative and cultural [...]
Forum Central Annual Member Satisfaction Survey 2025
Forum Central is a member-led partnership between Volition and Leeds Older People's Forum. Each year we invite our member organisations to share their thoughts to help us understand how we're doing and how we can [...]
Thrive at Work: Free support for Health and Care staff across Leeds
Thrive at Work is a new support initiative for anyone working in health and care across Leeds, including staff in the NHS, social care, primary care and third sector organisations. Thrive at Work is designed [...]
16 May | Mental Health Awareness Week Marketplace Event
VCSE Mental Health Services showcase at Leeds Kirkgate Marketplace Where: Leeds Kirkgate Market, Food Hall - pop up marketplace event When: Friday 16 May 2025, 11 AM to 3 PM For who: Anyone who wants [...]
Call out for designers: Interactive Toolkit and Coproduced cript for Animation
Could you help make the SWEMWBS tool more user-friendly? Forum Central, in partnership with Leeds City Council Public Health invites quotes from creative digital designers for a project centred around the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being [...]
17 April | West Yorkshire Power of Communities VCSE Session
Date: Thursday 17 April 2025 Time: 11 am - 12:30 pm Location: Online The West Yorkshire Power of Communities Programme Board have developed a series of sessions open to a wider set of VCSE representatives [...]
Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board Survey
Help Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) learn more about your experience of working in safeguarding. Third sector organisations are invited to share their feedback in the LSAB survey. What is the focus of the survey? [...]
Learning from 2 years of Transforming Mental Health Grants – The ‘Gold Dust’ Report
Supporting adults with complex mental health needs in our communities: what have we learnt? On 27 March 2025 Forum Central held a learning event to celebrate two years of the Transforming Mental Health Grants, launch [...]
Trauma Informed Community Grants Programme Highlights
In 2022 to 2023 11 community organisations received funded to run activities which boost protective factors in children and young people and families. Watch an overview of the programme which summarises the ambition and organisations [...]