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September 1, 2025
Leeds Older Peoples Forum is celebrating Catch the Bus Month 2025
Leeds Older peoples forum is proud to be supporting Catch the Bus Month 2025 run by Bus Users UK. Buses boost the economy, reduce congestion and pollution,…
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August 31, 2025
Leeds Older People’s Forum | AGM 2025
We are delighted to invite you to the Leeds Older People’s Forum Annual General Meeting (AGM), taking place on: This year’s theme is: Partnership: Working Together to…
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August 20, 2025
Monday 22 September | Older People’s Hub
Date: Monday 22 September 2025Time: 10.30 am – 12.30 pmLocation: Age UK Leeds, Bradbury Building, LS2 8JA The Hub aims to provide space and support to ensure that older people’s…
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August 12, 2025
Barchester Foundation grants now open!
The Barchester Charitable Foundation has launched grants to support projects that tackle loneliness among older people and adults with disabilities. The foundation offers grants of up to £2,500 to charitable organisations…
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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 28, 2025
International Day of Older People (IDOP) 2025: Grants now open!
Applications for this fund have now closed. This year’s IDOP will be celebrated in Leeds from 1 to 7 October 2025, under the theme ‘The Part We Play…
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July 24, 2025
Leeds involved in the call for a national strategy to tackle pensioner poverty
This week, a cross-party group of MPs published the findings of the Work and Pensions Committee’s Pensioner Poverty Inquiry, calling on the Government to adopt a UK-wide,…
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July 21, 2025
Government revives landmark Pensions Commission to confront retirement crisis
We warmly welcome today’s announcement from the Government to revive the Pensions Commission. This is a vital step toward confronting the growing retirement crisis and ensuring that…
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July 18, 2025
31 July | Health Equity Webinar: Healthy Ageing For All
There are huge inequalities in how well we age across the country, as measured by life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and the prevalence of specific health conditions.…
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July 14, 2025
24 October | Age UK Anniversary Event
Date: Friday 24 October 2025Time: 7 pm onwardsLocation: Marriott Hotel, Leeds, LS1 6ET Age UK Leeds are celebrating 50 years of helping lonely, vulnerable and socially isolated…
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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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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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