Category: Caring Together

    Some time ago students from Leeds Beckett University helped Caring Together erect a shed on our allotment. However, before we had time to secure it properly, along came the winter winds and tossed it around the plot leaving it in a sorry state. We contacted Hyde Park Source who along with a partner… Continue reading Growing Together

‘Thanks again to another wonderful partnership with Leeds Beckett University, Adult Nursing and School of Health and Community Studies we were able to offer some Everyday Basic First Aid skills again to our volunteers by volunteers. Three 3rd Year Nursing Students: Hayley Williams, Roisin Condon and Hayley Jackson joined us yesterday to help deliver our… Continue reading Everyday First Aid

    ‘Thanks to our partnership with LUUMIC and our mutual interest in music Caring Together has been able to bring something a little extra to our members this term. In the past we have reminisced, then listened and sang along, now it was our turn to get to have a play-along and try an… Continue reading Ukulele Jam-Along

The Leeds Benevolent Society for Single Ladies (registered charity No 1155794) have approached Caring Together with the aim of providing an initial 3 years of funding to support our project work. The society is a charitable foundation that assists elderly single ladies or spinsters who reside in Leeds. Caring Together is delighted with this offer and… Continue reading A huge thanks to Leeds Benevolent Society for Single Ladies

  The Bhole Bisre Yaadein (Forgotten Memories) group at APNA Day Centre resumed back after a 2 month break on the 26th January. Caring Together has been fortunate to have received invites to this wonderful group in the past. The evening, held once a month from 7 pm -9.30 pm consists of poetry recitals, Bollywood and Panjabi… Continue reading Bhole Bisre Yaadein

Caring Together members made a Valentines Pom Pom at the Tuesday Group yesterday. Members talked about how this day has been observed over their lifetimes and their own memories.

Leeds Libraries and the Big Lottery have combined to develop the History Pin Project in Leeds.Their aim is to bring older adults together to share stories and memories of the history of Leeds, as told by the people who have lived through it. Caring Together have been fully supportive of the project since its inception and… Continue reading History Pin Project

A meeting was held today at Little London Community Centre to celebrate the achievements of the volunteers at Caring Together during 2016. The work that we do would be so much more limited in scope and quality without the input of volunteers and we appreciate the time and energy that they have brought to their… Continue reading A big thank you to Caring Together volunteers

Last week saw the end of project exhibition for the Wordsworth Project, a collaboration between the Wordsworth Society, Leeds University, Caring Together and Shire Oak Primary School. Caring Together members have thoroughly enjoyed the project with one person saying that ‘it was the best thing that I have been involved in for ages’. A big… Continue reading ‘Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher’