The latest newsletter from the Sikh Elders Service is available to download and includes articles on “a Nice cup of tea”, the history of Diwali, Leeds Asian Festival and all of the services forthcoming activities (inluding swimming, yoga, computer classes and aqua aerobics).
Next Positive Care Programme starting shortly
The Positive Care Programme (PCP) is a wellbeing programme for people with long-term health conditions or unpaid carers. Once a week for 20 weeks, it is designed to empower people to ...
International volunteering conference in Brno
Jay Silver (manager of the Community Support Team at Leeds-based charity Touchstone) gave a presentation on “Best Practice in Volunteering” at a recent conference held in Leeds’ twin city Brno, Czech Republic. Leeds was also represented at the conference by Karol Thornton from Youth Offending Leeds. The conference on the subject of young people volunteering [...]
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Designing substance use services collaboratively
About a year ago, a group of people drawn from Leeds University, Leeds Partnerships Foundation Trust, South West Yorkshire Foundation Trust and others (including Touchstone, Altogether Better and User Voice ) came together to think about how Health Services in Leeds could be thought about, designed and delivered co-productively. We wanted to find ways of [...]
Refugee and asylum seeker action research project
We are delighted to announce that the Action Research project “Understanding refugees’ and asylum seekers’ (RAS) experiences of accessing and receiving Mental Health support in Leeds” has started on 26th September 2011. The objective of this project is to explore and develop understanding on what successful MH work looks like with RAS clients inside and [...]
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