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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 [...]
Weston Charity Awards 2026 – Strategic Support for Small and Medium Charities
The Weston Charity Awards 2026 are now open, offering a transformational support package for small and medium charities working across the North of England, the Midlands and Wales. The Awards are funded by the Garfield [...]
Project Management in the Voluntary Sector
Starts: Thursday 11 December 2025Format: 2-day live online course Running a project in a charity or voluntary organisation can be complex. Teams juggle limited resources, short-term funding, growing demand and diverse partnerships. NCVO’s Project Management [...]
Innovation in Healthcare Delivery Grants 2025/26
Leeds Hospitals Charity has opened the next round of Innovation in Healthcare Delivery Grants, inviting applications for projects that improve how people move through health and care services. The fund supports practical ideas that make [...]
What the Budget Means for Leeds Health and Care Third Sector
The Budget sets out national priorities around the cost of living, NHS recovery and long-term investment. For Leeds, and for Third Sector organisations who support communities every day, several announcements will shape how people access [...]
Imagine If Bones Could Talk (Visible Project Film Online)
A powerful new film from the Leeds Visible Project – Imagine If Bones Could Talk… The online release follows last week’s premiere event, where survivors, practitioners and partners from across Leeds came together to watch [...]
Want To Know More About… Health in Cities
Chris Whitty’s 2024 Chief Medical Officer Annual Report put a strong spotlight on Health in Cities. It explored how life in urban areas shapes our wellbeing, the pressures that come with rapid growth, and the [...]