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March 31, 2020
Time for legacy when the light shines
We have, collectively, worked so hard to reduce loneliness and social isolation among older people in Leeds and it is heart-breaking to be now sharing the message…
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March 27, 2020
How’s the remote working?
Time to Shine staff, like those of so many other organisations, are now working at home, as we seek to prevent the spread of coronavirus and protect…
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March 26, 2020
Dancing the Small Moments
Time to Shine delivery partner, Yorkshire Dance, is delighted to share a series of five animations inspired by their recent work in Leeds care homes. The films…
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March 25, 2020
Social interaction is vital for human health
It has been long known that human contact and interaction with other people is a basic human need and we at Time to Shine, with all our…
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March 25, 2020
We’re all in this together: coping with isolation across the generations
This week – 23 to 29 March 2020 – is National Intergenerational Week. A week when many of us had planned activities that brought different generations together.…
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March 24, 2020
Become a Community Care Volunteer
Community Care Volunteering is a city-wide volunteer programme operating across Leeds, to ensure systems are in place to care for people and communities during the COVID-19 outbreak.…
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March 19, 2020
Garforth NET – ringing the changes
Leeds Neighbourhood Networks Schemes are in the process of temporarily stopping their many and diverse activities for older people during the Covid-19 outbreak. This is an enormous…
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March 11, 2020
No man is an isola
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; (John Donne, English poet, 1572-1631) I…
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February 20, 2020
Bee Friends
Bee Together is a Time to Shine funded project aimed at older people with a learning disability. During the project many of the people I have spoken…
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February 18, 2020
Ageism: a prejudice against our own future selves
Ageism is discrimination based on age. Any age. It can and does affect us all, at numerous points in our lives. People often assume that ageism only…
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February 18, 2020
Crossing the borders of our imagination
The Performance Ensemble rises again on February 21, with a performance in Leeds called ‘Crossing’. Here is some of the production’s content – and here, too, our…
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February 13, 2020
Have I got older (people) news for you!? (February 2020)
At Time to Shine we see and read a lot of interesting stories and resources about older people. We share a few of these with you each…
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