Some feedback from a Positive Care Programme service user… Just a few lines to show my appreciation to the Positive Care Programme, which I have just completed. First and foremost I feel I am a much more positive person both in body and mind. When I fist attended the programme I had been off work [...]
Job vacancy: Relief Administrative Staff
Touchstone is looking for bank staff with previous administrative experience to work within the Administration service in Leeds. Bank staff will be required for short term assignments that may range ...
Interviews with Positive Care Programme participants
The following excerpts are from interviews taken with Positive Care Programme clients as they neared the end of their time with the Programme. Mac: “Be totally open minded about it ...
New software brings speedier response
From the 1st April 2012, if you have an individual keyworker with a Touchstone service you will find that your records will be kept on a new computer system called ...

Positive Care Programme – “I wake up every morning wanting to experience life to the fullest”
Tom Taylor, a former Positive Care Programme participant gave this presentation at Touchstone’s 2011 AGM. I was in a horrible position a year ago, suffering from low self-esteem, long periods of sadness and depression. I found it so hard to get up some days after not sleeping properly the night before and used to dread [...]

Positive Care Programme – “There is now a purpose in what I am doing”
Testimony from a previous participant in Touchstone’s Positive Care Programme… Walking through horizontal rain driven by disdainful gusts that whip across my face I try to remember why I am spending two hours on a Thursday just to get to the Postive Care Programme in Leeds. Three months ago I would have avoided it like [...]

Translating Touchstone’s website
Touchstone offers services to people from many different communities and countries. To help people access the information on this website, we’ve added a tool from Google Translate to the front page. Pick the language you need from the list and click “Translate”. (Translations are done by machine, so may not be perfect. However, they will [...]
Our Services
- Carers Support Project
- Community Development Service
- Community Support Team
- Community Volunteers Project
- East Leeds Health for All Project
- Housing Service
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service
- Kirklees Advocacy Service
- Personality Disorder Managed Clinical Network
- Positive Care Programme
- Self Directed Support and Individual Budgets
- Sikh Elders Service
- Step Change Project
- Support Centre
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Service User Guide
Our Service Users Say…
“I like that you want to involve me in groups and that you help me to achieve my goals”Raymond Mulhall, service user.
"I still have many problems plus I do not know what my future holds, but because of Touchstone and its staff I don’t have to face it on my own."Gavin, service user.
"The staff make me feel included… they have made me think and reflect about my life and have given me goals to look forward to."Lorraine, service user.
"The good thing is that Touchstone don’t take it all away from you and do things for you. They support you to do things."Gemma, service user.
"It’s the best support and aftercare that I have ever had. It makes me feel more confident just to know that Touchstone is there."Linda, service user.








