World Kindness Day was celebrated on the 13th November. It is a day to promote and celebrate acts of kindness. We had some University students drop off some healthy snack bars. We took them to one of our groups where they kindly shared them with each other.
Our new tablets (funded by 100% Digital) are not just for one to one work. We were able to open them out to larger groups. One of our volunteers kindly shared some pictures with us of her volunteering abroad this summer. And as a group we also viewed our annual party pictures.
Yoga is always popular when we have the opportunity to put it on. Our recent block of sessions in Little London came to an end last week. If you have any particular type of exercise or dance that you would like to try, just let us know. We may be able to organise something.
Caring Together volunteers and staff were beavering away last Monday stuffing newsletters into envelopes and preparing food hampers that will be distributed next month. It was a fantastic team effort. Many thanks to all who helped out.
Volunteering is an essential aspect of what makes Caring Together what it is. If you are interested in finding out about what opportunities for volunteering there are at Caring Together contact the office on:
0113 2430298
As part of the ‘Nature Revealed: Making the Invisible Visible’ project, Caring Together will be working alongside the University of Leeds, Schools, other organisations and various artists which involves coming together at intervals in the year using creative techniques to explore the natural world of migrational and nocturnal birds, hedgehogs and bats etc.
For the past few weeks, at Little London Community Centre, this has involved making lanterns which will culminate in them being used as part of Light Night in October 2020.
I for one cannot wait to see them finished. Watch this space.
Many, many thanks to the Hilmore House staff @Morrisons who generously donated £359.35 in our collection buckets this morning. This is much appreciated by all here at Caring Together and the money raised will be put to good use in organising groups and activities for Older People in Woodhouse and Little London.
Caring Together members recently visited Leeds-based design studio Split to have a go at producing their own public poster featuring their own words using the Peoples Powered Press. Built by JKN OilTools in Batley, the People Powered Press was originally created for These Northern Types and is thought to be the largest letterpress printing press of it’s kind in the world.
The visit was part of a joint project with SKIPPKO and was certainly a great success among those who participated.
A group of us from Caring Together took a minibus out to Wakefield today to visit the Hepworth Art Gallery. And very enjoyable it was! As well as the permanent display of Barbara Hepworth’s own work there was an exhibition of around 45 early paintings and works on paper by Alan Davie and David Hockney, many of which have not been seen publicly for decades.
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There were more pictures from the annual party than we could feasibly put up with the last post. So here are some more. Enjoy.
It was Caring Together’s Annual Party a week last Saturday. Held, as in previous years, at the Jubilee Club in Woodhouse, the afternoon was most enjoyable. A large crowed were entertained by our perennial favourites, Horizon, food and drinks were available and a raffle was held at the end. All reports so far have signalled that the event was a massive success. A huge thanks as always to all of the staff and volunteers whose hard work made the afternoon possible.
