Leeds Older People’s Forum
June 9, 2025
Loneliness Awareness Week – Mint!
No, not teenage slang picked up from my children(although it was a lovely moment), but mint, the plant, currently growing prolifically on my allotment and the cause…
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September 25, 2024
Pension Credit take up – how we could help: a blog from our Good Practice Mentors
The Good Practice Mentors have been watching the conversations around Pension Credit take up and Winter Fuel Allowance, considering how we could step in to help and…
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September 5, 2024
The part we play
Celebrating the integral role of older people in our communities Although we always say much of the Good Practice Mentor’s role is all age advice – most…
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June 6, 2024
Making Connections
Aren’t random connections lovely? They tend to make my day… For me they mostly come from having lived in one place for a while (all right, 30…
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January 25, 2024
Good Practice Mentors: a year of collaboration
Jessica Duffy explores a year of impactful collaboration between the Good Practice Mentor (GPM) team and the Tackling Loneliness Hub in their mission to address loneliness among…
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October 19, 2023
The power of a warm welcome: bridging the digital divide for older people
16-22 October is Get Online Week. Helping people to get online is something we’ve been working on at Leeds Older People’s Forum, thanks to the help of…
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August 10, 2023
Warm winter webinar
Are you settling back somewhere, in summer sun? Or maybe, like us up in Yorkshire, you are still waiting for any sun… or maybe already hoping for…
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July 26, 2023
Pride – an age friendly space?
As Pride month has drawn to a close, we think about Leeds Pride on 6 August (presumably due to an awkward Yorkshire temperament). So it’s time for…
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July 4, 2023
Making the world less ageist, one person at a time
I’m running a solo Wise Up to Ageism session this week.. It’s a bit scary – I’ve always done it before with Leeds colleagues – but I…
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June 7, 2023
Only connect
Next week (12-18 June) is Loneliness Awareness Week, created and hosted by the Marmalade Trust. The theme this year is ‘Connection’, the same word, and the same…
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May 22, 2023
Teaching new dogs old tricks
My new job involves teaching new dogs old tricks. (See what I did there?) Once knowledge is embedded it’s easy to forget you needed to learn something…
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May 11, 2023
Carry on learning, with me and my new team
Spring has sprung, possibly (although I’m still wearing a woolly hat outdoors). I’m certainly in a very happy mood myself and about to spring into a new…
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