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November 6, 2025
Music Memories: Connecting older adults through music
Music House in Leeds is excited to welcome you to Music Memories, a gentle and joyful project that brings older adults together to share stories through song. Sessions…
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October 29, 2025
Dementia Friendly Performance of Sleeping Beauty
Date: Tuesday, 9 DecemberTime: 1.30 pm Location: Carriage Works Theatre, Leeds Dementia friendly performances are tailored for people with dementia and their families or carers so that…
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August 12, 2025
18 October | Hope in Creativity: Music is Medicine
Date: Saturday 18 OctoberTime: 7 pm – 8.30 pmLocation: Leeds Playhouse Quarry Theatre Nearly a million people, and rising, live with dementia in the UK. BAFTA-winning actor…
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July 10, 2025
Conversations on Bereavement, Inequality and Care: Highlights from our Leeds Conference
One of our wonderful Age and Dementia Friendly businesses, Full Circle Funerals, recently hosted a conference at Thackray Museum on Bereavement, Inequality, and Care. Here, Ruth has…
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April 30, 2025
May 19 – 25 | Dementia Action Week
Dementia Action Week is an annual awareness raising campaign run by the Alzheimer’s Society to encourage people to act on dementia. This year, the focus is on dementia diagnosis and calling…
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April 29, 2025
Photos wanted: Ageing Well Leeds Archive and 2026 Calendar
The All Age Activists Intergenerational Group are calling for Leeds-based photos celebrating positive ageing with an emphasis on older people for the Ageing Well Leeds Archive and 2026…
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September 5, 2024
Seeds we plant today….
Of the 200+ businesses and organisations across Leeds who have committed to be Age and Dementia Friendly, around 40% are organisations which work directly with older people.…
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September 5, 2024
Celebrate Catch the Bus Month!
We are proud to be supporting September’s Catch the Bus Month (through our Travel Connections project) co-ordinated by Bus Users UK. Buses are the most accessible form…
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July 31, 2024
Update: August 2024
Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In July, among other activities, we have… In August,…
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July 31, 2024
Where there’s a will……
Back in 2019, when LOPF launched the Age and Dementia Friendly Business Scheme we had in mind the type of organisation we wanted to target: GP surgeries,…
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July 2, 2024
Sunny Bank Mills makes it 200 Age and Dementia Friendly businesses!
Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley is the 200th organisation in Leeds to have committed to being age and dementia friendly! Our Friendly Communities team manages the Age…
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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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