Our Friday Group had a change of venue when we took our exercise class out to South Leeds Golf Club and then followed it by afternoon tea in the cafe. We worked hard at the exercise,  so think we deserved the treat! And our lovely waitress is Julie our exercise tutor      

Little London Community Centre was the venue on Friday for a movie afternoon. 30 people gathered to watch ‘Quartet’ in the first of a series of similarly planned afternoons. Future movies will be arranged in response to suggestions made by those present on the day. A great time was had by all who attended with… Continue reading Movies at the CT Lounge

        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