The Caring Together Walking Group held its 7th walk of the year yesterday. A local walk from Charring Cross in Little London to Meanwood Valley Farm via Buslingthorpe Lane. During a recce of the walk on Tuesday, Walk Leader Ben took this wonderful picture below of a pig at the farm with her bonnivs. If… Continue reading Moseying down Meanwood Way

    Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK. It takes place from 1st-7th June every year. Caring Together organises events annually to recognise the stellar work of our core volunteers without which so much of our service provision would either not take place or… Continue reading Making a difference

Caring Together’s Men’ s Group recently went to the Fisherman Wife in Headingley for a meal. A few of us ordered the jumbo option. Big mistake. When the smaller plates came out and were large we wondered what was in store for us. Well, lets just say that some of the group were eating fish… Continue reading Fishy Business

Many thanks to Mark Howard who recently attended our Memoirs Group. Mark kindly volunteers his time for the Group once or twice a year, and has done for about 3 years now. He has proved a lovely addition to our yearly reminiscing schedule for the Memoirs Group offering a fun interactive take on sporting memories.

          The One Stop Shop on Woodhouse Street has been collecting food items to be distributed to local residents that are in need. It contacted Caring Together to help with distributing this. On this occasion Caring Together agreed with the shop to donate this months proceeds to the local food bank… Continue reading A big thanks to the Woodhouse One Stop Shop

Caring Together recently held a successful tea and cakes afternoon at Little London Community Centre. All present remarked on what an enjoyable afternoon it was. Many thanks to Headingley Methodist Church for the loan of their cups, saucers, side plates and cakes stands, to Tesco Express on Burley Rd for a generous selection of cakes that… Continue reading Springtime Tea in Little London

    Leeds Forward came and finished the shed on the Caring Together allotment yesterday. It now has doors!! Many thanks to them for this. This will make a great difference to the allotment team in helping to keep the plot tidy.

The C.T Lounge was back in action last week. Singing in the rain was the musical chosen and as expected it was footstampingly amazing and well received. The cinema afternoons are continuing to be a success with ice cream and popcorn available as part of the experience. Many different suggestions were made as to which… Continue reading ”What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again”

              The second session of the LUUMIC Societies Ukulele sessions took place at Little London Community Centre recently. These have been a great success with our members many of whom never had the opportunity to learn an instrument before. The group moved up to using 3 chords and singing… Continue reading Ukulele reprise

Leeds University held its annual party for members of local Neighbourhood Networks recently and a great time was had by all. Students delivered a fantastic performance of jazz standards.  Many thanks to the students and the university for maintaining this annual event which can only help in fostering community spirit and improving the links between… Continue reading All that jazz