Category: Keeping Safe

Swarthmore Centre Leeds – is offering FREE online courses starting in January 2021

Dear all, Swarthmore Centre Leeds – is offering FREE online courses starting in January including  Jewellery Making, languages, life drawing, painting, poetry and a range of health and wellbeing courses including Yoga and the Alexander Technique.   For more information visit their page at   https://www.swarthmore.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/spring-programme-2021-final-1.pdf

Christmas Day Wishes from all at Caring Together

Caring Together is sending you all some festive wishes. Please click on the link below for some festive cheer – you may need to click on the video for the sound as well. All the best to you all. Keep safe. https://www.facebook.com/caringtogetherleeds/videos/900632134111363  

Free Christmas Day activities with WEA

Dear all, Free online Christmas Day activities with WEA In these uncertain times, WEA staff will be providing FREE online activities on Christmas Day for everyone. Our short activities will run throughout the day and will provide fun and a chance to chat. So whether you are feeling lonely, or are just needing a moment away from… Continue reading Free Christmas Day activities with WEA

Holiday Season Wishes from all at Caring Together

Dear all, The Caring Together offices are now closed for the holiday season, returning on the 4th January 2021. We will be turning our phones on periodically to check for anything urgent and calling into the office, and making some necessary visits and calls. See also the useful list of contacts from the insert in… Continue reading Holiday Season Wishes from all at Caring Together

Shared Moments: ‘Pre Christmas Thoughts from Oliver

THINGS would be worse if it wasn’t for the BBC’s health correspondent, who always signs off his pieces with a jaunty little rhyme: ‘Dominic Hughes – BBC News.’ It’s a pity he did not have a much earlier life as a foreign correspondent, in which case he could have signed off with ‘well, that’s all… Continue reading Shared Moments: ‘Pre Christmas Thoughts from Oliver

Changes to ‘Christmas Bubble’ rules

Tier 1, 2 and 3 Christmas bubble rules Changes to the relaxations of covid rules were announced at the weekend – reducing the time you can meet with other households to just one day on December 25.  Parts of south-east England and London were put into a new tier 4 and there is no relaxation… Continue reading Changes to ‘Christmas Bubble’ rules

Leeds to stay in Tier 3

The Government announced today that Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire will remain under Tier 3 restrictions until at least the end of December. A brief overview of the Tier 3 guidelines are: you must not meet socially indoors or in most outdoor places with anybody you do not live with, or who is… Continue reading Leeds to stay in Tier 3

Prescription deliveries – information and a scam warning

If you need to have your prescription medication delivered a lot of pharmacies will do this for free but a few of them have started to make a charge for this service.  So, if you are paying for presciption deliveries, it might be worth speaking to a different pharmacy to see if you can your… Continue reading Prescription deliveries – information and a scam warning

Praise for support offered to older people in Leeds by grassroots community groups during pandemic

A new report has praised grassroots community groups in Leeds for the vital support they have provided for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, jointly compiled by the Centre for Ageing Better charitable foundation and Sheffield Hallam University’s Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, highlights how Leeds Neighbourhood Networks have acted as… Continue reading Praise for support offered to older people in Leeds by grassroots community groups during pandemic