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.
Category Archives: Caring Together
Christmas is coming (early)
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:
Lighting the way!
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.
A Big thank You To Morrisson’s Staff
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.
The People’s Powered Press
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.
Hepworth Art Gallery Trip
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.
More from the party!!!
Annual Party
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.
Amazon Scam
Criminals are targeting members of the public with automated calls stating that the recipient has been charged for an Amazon Prime subscription.
The callers use this lure as a way to gain access to the recipient’s online banking account.
How does it work?
1. The victim receives an automated call stating that they’ve been charged for an Amazon Prime subscription. They’re asked to press 1 to cancel the charge, this connects them directly to the fraudster.
2. A fraudster, posing as an Amazon customer service representative, then tells the victim that the Prime subscription was purchased fraudulently and that they need remote access to the victim’s computer in order to fix a security flaw that will prevent it from happening again.
3. The victim is asked to download an application called Team Viewer, which grants the fraudster remote access to the victim’s computer.
4. The victim is then asked to log onto their online banking account whilst the criminals are able to monitor everything via Team Viewer
PLEASE CIRCULATE AMONGST YOUR CONTACTS
We are not Beige
A short clip of the Beige performance at the White Rose Centre featuring some Caring Together members, who will also be performing at the Ageless Festival at Yorkshire Dance tomorrow





















