Our offices are now closed for the festive season returning on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.
Sending you some kindness and support throughout the holiday season from all at Caring Together. Wishing you all a peaceful and safe holidays.
All Leeds households will have their bins collected a DAY EARLIER the week before Christmas.
If you are due a collection on Boxing Day Monday, that collection will be made on Christmas Eve (Saturday) instead.
After Boxing Day your bin will be collected on your normal, scheduled days.
Don’t get caught out this year, check the schedule below:
Following our Annual General Meeting we would like to share with you our 2022 Annual Report
If you would like a paper copy please let us know and we can send one to you.
Caring-Together-Annual-Report-2022
There are 74,000 unpaid carers in Leeds. If you look after a partner, relative or friend who is disabled or ill due to physical or mental health, you are a carer, even if you don’t think of yourself as one.
Caring Costs unpaid carers in many ways, from carers’ wellbeing and ability to access health services, to costs to their finances and employment options, to the current cost of living crisis which is being felt even more acutely by carers throughout the UK.
Find out about the emotional, practical and financial support available to you. https://www.carersleeds.org.uk/
Caring Together, in partnership with Leeds Older Peoples Forum are pleased to be able to offer to members an invite to a Let’s Talk Transport Event
This will be held on Monday 28th November and will involve a Visit via electric bus to the White Rose Shopping Centre:
Pick up will be from Charing Cross in Woodhouse at approx… 10am, arriving at the White Rose at approx… 10.30am. The return journey will start at approx… 1.30pm.
The bus can accommodate one stationary wheelchair and multiple fold up chairs with passengers seated on seats.
There are spaces available for 9 more people. These are likely to be taken up very quickly so contact us soon if you are interested.
Visit to consist of:
NOTE: This is not a shopping trip and staff will be unavailable to attend on the day.
Our latest newsletter is here along with some inserts, lots of information and upcoming activities, events and outings
You can also see previous newsletters here
Issue-98-Winter-2022
• Winter fuel payments – to those who were at state pension age on 26th September 2022. This year it will include an extra £300, so the total payment will be either £500 or £600 per household. You will get this automatically into the same bank account as your pension and they should mostly be paid in November or December. If you are eligible and have not received the payment by 13th January 2023 you can contact the Winter Fuel Payment Centre on 0800 731 0160
• The second instalment of the cost of living payment is due to be paid between now and 23rd November. This payment is £324 and is paid to people receiving Pension Credit, Universal Credit, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support. It will be paid automatically. For people receiving only Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit the payment will be a bit later and will start from 23rd November.You must have been entitled to the benefit on at least one day in the qualifying period – 26th August -25th September 2022.
….our window seems to have been taken over by creepy creatures!
Some of our members had fun making these last week.
If you want to know more about other activities please get in touch
Light Night Leeds is the UK’s largest annual arts and light festival and returns on 13th and 14th October 2022.
For the past 17 years, over two incredible nights in October, some of Leeds’s most recognisable indoor and outdoor spaces have been transformed by spectacular artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists.
The streets of Leeds will be transformed into an incredible illuminated playground with more than 50 spectacular light installations, dynamic projections and interactive artworks.T
his year’s event will have the theme of Playful City, with some of Leeds’s most recognisable landmarks and locations hosting spellbinding installations aimed at encouraging visitors to engage and interact with the city in new, fun and innovative ways.
Highlights will include a thrilling, large scale projection on The Queen’s Hotel, which will take the people of Leeds on a futuristic, digital rollercoaster ride.
At Leeds Civic Hall, a homage to the classic video games of the 1980s will see visitors take control of a high tech augmented reality experience, played out across the historic building’s impressive façade.
At Leeds Art Gallery, local artists Akeelah Bertram and Adam Glatherine’s installation will turn sounds into a cascade of colour and light across a network of eight-foot tall pipes, while at the Leeds Playhouse, a giant, luminous slinky will tumble end over end from the rooftops around the city’s famous theatre.
The popular Spark drummers will also be back with a unique performance at Trinity Leeds, while the historic lifting tower on Wellington Place will be the backdrop for a projection that will give a modern twist to the tale of Rapunzel.
See https://www.lightnightleeds.co.uk/ for more details of when, where and what is going on and including details of where you can get a printed guide
Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse Councillors will be at Caring Together premises today between 5pm and 6pm for their monthly advice surgery.
This is open to all residents in the area and no appointment is needed so you can just call in if you would like to speak to your local councillor.
Caring Together – 127 Woodhouse Street (Charing Cross), Leeds, LS6 2PY
