This weekend The Shows Must Go On celebrates Michael Ball’s legendary career on the West End stage and the full performance of his Past & Present show live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Join Michael Ball as he belts show-stopping hits from the musicals including Gethsemane (Jesus Christ Superstar), Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (Les Miserables) and Love Changes Everything (Aspects of Love).
Premieres tonight (Friday 2nd Oct) at 7pm and then available for 48 hours
Rainbow Junktionhave been doing a phenomenal job for our community in keeping people fed during the Covid-19 crisis.
They rely on donations, and we have been overwhelmed by the response to the last food bank donation drives, but sadly the longer the crisis goes on the more help people need.
We are teaming up to make this our biggest collection yet. 18 donation points around Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse!
You will be able to drop donations off between 5pm-8pm THIS Sunday, and 9am-2pm THIS Monday.
If you’re financially stable and doing a shop for yourself between now and then, please consider spending a few quid on a few items to donate – or alternatively go through your cupboards and see if there’s anything you’d like to donate there!
Donation locations, which will all have a box outside to put donations in will be at;
73 Alma Road
13 Ash Grove 13 Ashwood Villas 14 Balbec Avenue 7 Beulah View 5 Blenheim Square
The Cardigan Centre 40 Eltham Drive
4 Granby Road 80 Hartley Avenue 50 Kings Road 30 Langdale Avenue Leeds Grand Mosque 17a Moorland Avenue 20 Newport View 7 Orville Gardens 24 School View 5 Walkers Mount
At 2pm on Monday we will be going round and collecting all donations and taking them across to Rainbow Junktion. Huge thanks to those who have offered to host a donation station!
Please promote this to your friends and neighbours!
Changes to bus services from 4th October 2020
First and Arriva are changing bus services in Leeds from Sunday 4th October due to the reopening of The Headrow in the city centre. Specific changes that will affect Leeds 16 are that the number 1 bus will terminate at Lawnswood and a new service the number 8 will service Lawnswood to Holt Park.
For full details of changes https://www.
“This year’s theme is Age Proud: time to feel good about ageing
This theme is about celebrating ageing and challenging the perception of older age and turning the perceived negatives into positives. It is about raising awareness of the diversity of activity for older people adults across Leeds and supporting the ambition for Leeds to be the Best City to Grow Old In”
COVID-19 has really affected everyone and feeling good about ageing can be harder to imagine as it has had a huge detrimental impact on our wellbeing due to lockdown and shielding. It does feel more important than ever in light of this that we continue to celebrate IDOP in whatever ways we can that are safe and practical. As we didn’t know what the situation was going to be due to COVID-19 in October we looked at offering an online option this time in place of our usual celebrations and gathering together.Last year a large group of us were at the Vue Cinema in Leeds followed by a cuppa and discussion about the film and others we would like to watch.
For safety reasons we have not been able to host another film afternoon in person this year, yet we have been able to resume them online. The last one went well, so for October we have another film evening planned that includes sharing our early evening meal together (virtually) from the comfort of your own home. It is a secret cinema yet we hope you will enjoy the choice (from one of our members), and if not you we would love your suggestions for further film evenings. And there may be a treat delivered beforehand if you let us know you are joining us.
Early Evening Meal and Film (Virtually) – Wednesday 7th October 2020 @ 5pm
Please email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call on 07436 530073 if you wish to discuss/ or join us.
ps. If you don’t have zoom I can go through this with you, we may also be able to supply some devices for you if lacking IT devices is a problem (limited numbers on these). We are not the experts and tend to help and share our knowledge with each other and as such we do the best we can given the situation.
Dear all
Last week, thinking it time to return to action, we took a ground-breaking trip to the Humber estuary. Almost immediately, the Prime Minister told us that the policy on breaking ground had been revised and we had better get back behind the barricades, or at least the facemasks.
We had been on a guided tour of Spurn Head, a narrow spit of land extending about three-and-a-half miles on the northern side of the Humber estuary. Both my partner Lynne and I share the belief that, as members of an island nation, we need regular trips to the seaside, where, as a bonus, fish and chips always taste better. It’s our heritage.
Not that Spurn Head has a chip shop. It has a cafe and visitor centre run by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, a disused Victorian lighthouse, a working lifeboat station and lots of curious ruins from the First World War, when big gun emplacements, barracks and searchlights were installed to protect the vital Humber shipping lanes and then left to rot. What’s protecting Humber shipping now, I don’t know.
The ruins are now covered in low-growing scrub, the sandy land not being stable or fertile enough to support decent-sized trees. It’s an edgy, changeable place, suspended between the estuary and the North Sea and in 2013, when a tidal surge tore a huge gap in the spit, its southern tip became an island overnight, only accessible to walkers or specialist vehicles at low tide.
In our case, the specialist vehicle was a former Dutch army truck seating, according to current rules, nine on what the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust called a safari, although the largest wild beast we were likely to see was a rabbit.
Even when we climbed the many, many steps to the top of the Spurn Point lighthouse, where we might have seen many seabirds and marine creatures, the chief sight of interest turned out to be Grimsby.
And much as we admire the sea, we were in danger of overdosing on it. Estuary on one side, open sea on the other and both ready to engulf us during high tides. The flatlands of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire don’t rise much above the sea level and the broad horizons and unconfined sea breezes all around us felt nothing at all like being locked down in Leeds, which, in retrospect, was the point of the outing.
Incidentally, among our safari group was an energetic boy, aged three or four, who charged around with great aplomb, occasionally barging into other people, as children must.
His mother, in apology, said that her boy had actually won a school merit award for his social-distancing abilities. This is how things have changed so suddenly and utterly; six months ago social distancing was an unfamiliar phrase to most grown-ups, now it’s an essential skill for children who have yet to master shoelace-tying.
The Green Homes Grant gives homeowners in England vouchers to help cover the cost of energy efficient improvements to their home – such as low carbon heating systems, insulation or double glazing to replace single glazing.
For most, the vouchers will be worth about two-thirds of the cost of the energy efficient improvements, up to a maximum of £5,000 per household. If you are a private tenant your landlord can apply.
However, if you’re on a low income or certain benefits, you can get vouchers of up to £10,000 to cover the entire cost of installing the measures. (Homeowners only)
Qualifying benefits: income-based/contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, income-based/contribution-based employment and support allowance, income support, pension ‘guarantee’ credit, working tax credit, child tax credit, universal credit, disability living allowance, personal independence payment, attendance allowance, carer’s allowance, severe disablement allowance, industrial injuries disablement benefit and housing benefit.
Vouchers must be used to install at least one primary home insulation, (solid wall, under floor, cavity wall, loft, flat roof, room in roof), or low carbon heating measure.
If you install at least 1 of these, your voucher can also be used to help cover the cost of any of the following secondary measures: draught proofing, double/triple glazing (where replacing single glazed windows), secondary glazing (in addition to single glazing), external energy efficient doors (replacing single glazed or solid doors installed before 2002), heating controls or hot water tank thermostats and insulation. This can only be up to the same value as the primary measure.
All work must be completed within 6 months (by the end of March 2021) so if you want to take advantage of this scheme you need to do so as soon as possible.
There is now a Government website where you can find all the infomation and apply for a Green Homes Grant
Simple Energy Advice has lots of information as well as tools to help you check eligibility and find accredited tradespeople: www.simpleenergyadvice.org.uk Or you can call them on 0800 444202.
Alternatively, if you want to chat to Valerie about this – call 0748 3333 115 or email valerie@caringtogether.org.uk
A course of 12 free workshops for anyone who has experienced mental health/wellbeing challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak.
To book: https://www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/creative-voices-workshops/
Update: there are very limited places left so you will need to be quick if you want to book
The course comprises:
Plus the additional option of either performing or seeing your work performed as a spoken word piece or sung by the Holmfirth Soul Choir (or another local choir) at a special Festival event at the end of March (date tbc).
There are four workshop groups to choose from – simply select your preference from the drop-down menu when you book:
Group 1: Tuesdays 11am-12 noon (start date: Tuesday 6 October for 10 weeks)
Group 2: Tuesdays 1pm-2pm (start date: Tuesday 6 October for 10 weeks)
Group 3: Thursdays 1pm-2pm (start date: Thursday 8 October for 10 weeks)
Group 4: Thursdays 7pm-8pm (start date: Thursday 8 October for 10 weeks)
Please ensure that you are able to attend at least 8 of the 10 autumn workshops before booking.
This project is being delivered in partnership with TSL Kirklees project Words in Mind and is supported by Kirklees Council’s ‘Do Something Now’ fund.
Now is the time Of the retrieving of the jackets From whence they've spent Their summer repose Or The back of the closet So sorry that I'd Forgotten about you Until your warmth Sent me searching Welcome back, old friend Especially if You've got money In your pocket
AVSED – the Neighbourhood Network Scheme for the Aireborough area are inviting you to join them on Thursday 1st October at 2pm for a celebration of International Day of Older People.
“Every year Leeds finds new ways to celebrate older people and their contribution to society. This year’s theme is Age Proud: time to feel good about Ageing. This theme is about celebrating ageing and challenging the perception of older age and turning the perceived negatives into positives. Raising awareness of the diversity of activity for older people across Leeds and supporting the ambition for Leeds to be the Best City to Grow Old In.
Lyrics: “Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!”
2 From a 1950s classic musical, it certainly won’t put a dampener on your mood: Singin’ in the Rain
Lyrics: “I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain.”
3 This rock masterpiece was rumoured to be the most expensive single ever made on its 1975 release: Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Lyrics: “Because I’m easy come, easy go
A little high, little low.”
4 This ballad was written to comfort one of the band member’s sons: Hey Jude – The Beatles
Lyrics: “Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin.”
5 Patriotic song associated with the Royal Navy: Rule Britannia
Lyrics: “When Britain first, at Heaven’s command
Arose from out the azure main.”
6 The unofficial anthem of Yorkshire: On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘At
Lyrics: “Wheear ‘ast tha bin sin’ ah saw thee, ah saw thee?”
7 Ol’ Blue Eyes made it one of the most famous tunes in the world: My Way – Frank Sinatra
Lyrics: “Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention.”
8 Fun times in a Yorkshire seaside town: Scarborough Fair
Lyrics: “Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.”
9 This band certainly had an Edge in it: With or Without You – U2
Lyrics: “Through the storm, we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more.”
10 A regular feature of Last Night of the Proms: Land of Hope and Glory
Lyrics: “Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.”
11.It only hit the number one spot in the British charts after the singer’s untimely death in 1980: Imagine – John Lennon
Lyrics: “I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.”
12 Typical Cockney’s song, according to the musical Me and My Girl: Lambeth Walk
Lyrics: “Any evening, any day
You’ll find us all
Doin’ the ——- —-.”
13 This 1997 movie theme song’s success did not sink like the ship: My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Lyrics: “Far across the distance
And spaces between us.
You have come to show you, go on.”
14 The band’s warring brothers hate each other: Wonderwall – Oasis
Lyrics: “And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding.”
15 Always Sung before the FA Cup Final: Abide With Me
Lyrics: “Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away.”
16 A favourite from The Forces’ Sweetheart: (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover – Vera Lynn
Lyrics: “I’ll never forget the people I met
Braving those angry skies
I remember well as the shadows fell
The light of hope in their eyes.”
17 It was the first record by a Welsh artist to top the US chart: Total Eclipse Of The Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Lyrics: “And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever.”
18 Popular in New Orleans and football grounds: When the Saints Go Marching In
Lyrics: “Oh when the trumpet sounds the call
Oh lord I want to be in that number.”
19 Found fame a second time around thanks to one of a hit film’s most romantic scenes: Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers
Lyrics: “Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea.”
20 Penned when the writers were just 17, it features a famous sax riff: Careless Whisper – George Michael
Lyrics: “So I’m never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you.”
