Category: Caring Together

The Caring Together Walking Group had its annual outing last week. This time it was to Haworth. A great time was had by all and spirits were only slightly deflated by the three hours it took us to return home. If anyone is living in Woodhouse and Little London, is  interested in becoming a member… Continue reading Caring Together Walking Group

Caring Together held it’s AGM on the 23rd September at Woodhouse Community Centre. Prior to the formal matters that needed to be dealt with, the afternoon kicked off with an exercise session facilitated by Julie Gill who runs the exercise classes at various Caring Together Groups. The Lord Mayor, Gerry Harper,  attended and spoke at… Continue reading Caring Together AGM- In words and pictures

Don’t forget our Annual General Meeting is tomorrow! Woodhouse Community Centre 12noon Friday 23rd September Come along to hear all our news and support your local charity working with older people!  

Saturday 27th August is Nations Sports Day and here at Caring Together we wanted to join in the action.  So at our groups this week we have been having seated sporting challenges! These have included ring toss games, a seated ‘egg’ and spoon race and the very popular cup challenge – completed by our overall… Continue reading Nations Sports Day comes to Caring Together

Our Annual Sponsored Stroll will be taking place on Saturday 10th September at 2pm on Woodhouse Moor. We really need more strollers – do you think you can help? All it involves is collecting a few sponsors (even the smallest amount of sponsor money would help – it all adds up) and taking a gentle… Continue reading Can you stroll to support us?

We are very excited to be part of this project with the Wordsworth Trust and University of Leeds. If you are 55 years and over, and living in Woodhouse and Little London we would love to meet you. This group will run for 8 weeks in total offering you a chance to meet people over a… Continue reading Wordsworth in Woodhouse (Poetry, cake and a cuppa)

The sun is set to shine this weekend so it’s a good time to visit the City Beach in Millennium Square.  Have fun on the beach without leaving the city! No need to queue in the traffic to get to the beach this summer; as City Beach returns to Millennium Square for a fourth summer season.… Continue reading The beach (and the Olympics) come to Millennium Square

This weekend sees the 10th annual Leeds Pride event in Leeds and because it is the 10th birthday celebration it is happening over the whole weekend, with events on the Saturday leading up to the main event on Sunday 7th and is the biggest Pride celebration in Yorkshire This year for the first time there… Continue reading Pride of Place for Older People at Leeds Pride

Caring Together groups this week were treated to a little bit of Olympic nostalgia leading up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio this summer.  Andy from the Discovery Centre brought in items relating to Brazilian history as well as from Olympics past.  This prompted some really interesting discussions in the groups and is getting us… Continue reading Olympic Spirit comes to Woodhouse & Little London