Category: Caring Together

        Caring Together and Leeds Beckett University have joined forces on a knitting Project involving our members and their students. Four students attended our last Craft Group Session. The project is centred around learning new skills and sharing knowledge. The project will culminate with the students pieces of work being brought together… Continue reading Knitting Together

  Staff and members of Caring Together took part in the Dawn Chorus Bird Walk this morning along Woodhouse Ridge. Nineteen people attended and the weather was kind to us. Many thanks to Tabitha from Oblong who organised the walk and fed everyone afterwards at the Woodhouse Community Centre

Members at our IT drop-in had a session about keeping safe on-line with Lisa from the SAFER project. We looked at things like how to recognise fake or phishing emails, how to know if a site is secure when shopping, keeping safe on internet dating sites and scams through social media. All those who attended… Continue reading Online Safety with the SAFER Project

            Lesley Pearson, our Activities Organiser, retires today.  We want to thank Lesley for all her hard work and her commitment to Caring Together. But we are pleased to say that it is not goodbye altogether as Lesley has promised to come back and help us from time to time… Continue reading Goodbye to Lesley

Caring Together members at the Real Junk Food Cafe at Woodhouse Community Centre this morning. The Cafe will be operating from the Community Centre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11am to 2pm and as usual will be operating on a pay as you feel basis.

We had a very interesting and informative Parkinson’s Awareness session today, as part of Parkinson’s Awareness week.  Around 20 members and volunteers attended and heard Liz Wolstenholme, a volunteer from Parkinson’s UK talk about her experiences with Parkinson’s disease and also answer questions and share experiences. Many thanks to Liz, who battled against the odds… Continue reading Parkinson’s Awareness

A meeting was held at Little London Community Centre this morning called for and facilitated by the Partners Project. The Partners Project, an initiative of the Communities Board, has been working in Little London since last summer meeting with various combinations of residents, local organisations and agencies. One of the proposed initiatives that was discussed… Continue reading Little London Community Day

Caring Together has recently been made aware that there may be a constituency of older people living in the City Centre who would benefit from the type of support offered by Neighbourhood Networks. After discussions with Adult Social Care it has been agreed that Caring Together can advertise our services in the City Centre as… Continue reading Caring Together in the City Centre

The last of the 3 Creative Memoirs Project sessions was held today and focused on dance and memories of music. Once again the session was facilitated by Lauren and Trish from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds University. Today they were accompanied by 2 members of the University Dance Society. This was once again… Continue reading Learning new moves.

Caring Together has two vacancies that are currently being advertised. Post 1: ACTIVITIES ORGANISER This post is funded for 2 years, by The Peoples Health Trust with money raised by Health Amaze through the National Lottery.   Post 2: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE WORKER This post is funded for 3 years, by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.  … Continue reading Vacancies at Caring Together