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Shine Bright Long Term Funding
The 7stars Foundation has opened applications for Shine Bright Long Term Funding, offering significant, unrestricted support to charities working with vulnerable children and young people across the UK. This fund is aimed at organisations delivering [...]
Christmas Food Provision in Leeds 2025
As the year comes to a close and the cost-of-living pressures continue, support for people facing food insecurity remains critical. The 2025 Christmas food provision documents are now available on the Leeds Food Aid Network [...]
Carers’ stories that reflect real life, not the postcard version
Carers Leeds has built a powerful collection of personal stories from unpaid carers across the city. Written in carers’ own voices, these reflections offer an honest picture of what caring really looks like day to [...]
Free frontline training to better understand self-harm
Leeds Mind is delivering a series of free workshops designed to support frontline staff working in community settings to develop a deeper understanding of self-harm. The workshops have been shaped by lived experience and informed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]