Month: December 2016

      Caring Together is happy to sign up to the principles underpinning the new Age Friendly Charter for Leeds. We concur with all its aims of promoting access by older people to quality services, their participation and input into service developments  and their right to be consulted about any changes to service provision.… Continue reading An Age Friendly Charter for Leeds

  Caring Together would like to offer our very best wishes for Christmas 2016 to our members, supporters, volunteers, trustees and those who help to fund us over the past year. Enjoy yourself, keep safe, and we will see you all in the New Year. The Caring Together offices will be closed from 4pm on Friday 23rd… Continue reading Christmas Greetings from Caring Together

Members of Caring Together were once again recently invited to the annual Notre Dame Christmas party for older people in the locality. And once again they were treated to fantastic entertainment provided by staff and pupils as well as an array of food and beverages. Caring Together values the links that we have with schools… Continue reading Thanks to Notre Dame

Caring Together, as in other years, organised 2 shopping trips for members this year. One to Otley and one within Leeds. Wades charity provided funding again this year for the costs of minibus hire for both trips. Many thanks to them for their continued support. One of the trips was for those who needed a… Continue reading Stocking up for Christmas

The past couple of weeks have gone by in a blur at Caring Together with all of the groups organising their own outings to various fooderies around Leeds. Great times were had by all with most saying how the meals made them feel that this is the start of Christmas for them and how it… Continue reading Celebrating with style at Caring Together

Caring Together held an end of year celebration last Friday at Woodhouse Community Centre for members, volunteers, local older people and supporters and there was a great turnout. We were treated to over an hour of fantastic entertainment provided by LUUMIC. ”LUUMIC, or Music Impact in the Community, is a volunteering society that aims to get involved… Continue reading End of year celebration

Some more Christmas cheer arrived at Caring Together this morning, courtesy of the staff at Zurich in Leeds who collected money to enable them to make us 16 festive hampers which they delivered to us today to give out to some of our members. This was part of the ZurichFestive Challenge and is just one of… Continue reading It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…..(part two)

Our office was a hive of activity as the Caring Together Elves , Volunteers, were busy wrapping boxes and packing them with lots of goodies to make up hampers. All the food that went into the hampers was donated to Caring Together by members, volunteers supporters and also from Grove Methodist Church. The hampers will be… Continue reading It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…… (part one)

  Some of our members were able to join in on the Little Community Primary School ‘Festival of Light’ event this year, which the school hosted on Friday 25th November 2016. The children made lanterns to carry and walked around the area with their parents/carers and some of our members ending with a Community Supper. The… Continue reading Festival of Light

The Wordsworth in Woodhouse  project has now ended. The collaboration between Caring Together, the Wordsworth Society and Leeds University ran for 8 weeks and culminates in a exhibition as noted below: ‘The exhibition ‘Creative Communities: Wordsworth in Leeds’ will be on display in Leeds Central library (in the main lending library) from Monday 9th January… Continue reading Wordsworth in Woodhouse