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The latest updates from Leeds Older People's Forum
April 25, 2025
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: How Enhance Is Shaping Support for Older People
As Enhance enters its fourth year of delivery, the programme is consistently proving how sustained partnership working, flexible delivery, and community-rooted approaches can meaningfully reduce clinical demand…
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April 24, 2025
24 – 30 April | World Immunisation Week
World Immunisation Week in 2025 will be from April 24 to April 30. The theme for 2025 is “Uniting for Universal Vaccine Coverage”. This week-long event, led…
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April 11, 2025
Volunteer your time to research
Leeds Older People’s Forum collaborates with local and regional universities on research that focuses on, or may impact, older people. We ensure that older people are meaningfully…
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April 8, 2025
Free webinar: How going digital can save you money: a guide with the DWP
AbilityNet are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 20 May with their Disability Consultant, Lizi Green, who will highlight cost savings you can make by going digital.…
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March 10, 2025
Action on Loneliness: Finding groups local to you
Action on Loneliness has created a website tool to find meetings, gatherings or events within a 15-mile radius of your postcode. It aims to provide a space…
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March 6, 2025
Age-friendly Communities: a handbook of principles to guide local policy and action
The Centre for Ageing Better has published a handbook aimed at people working in or with local authorities in the UK to help them identify ways to…
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March 4, 2025
We are hiring!
Leeds Older People’s Forum are looking to recruit a Project Manager for the Enhance scheme. Please visit https://www.opforum.org.uk/get-involved/work-with-us/ for more information and to download the application pack.
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February 25, 2025
Older Adult Research Workshops
Are you interested in how older people contribute to research? Want to share your thoughts and help shape the future of involvement? We are inviting people over…
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December 20, 2024
Leeds Older People’s Forum on WASPI decision
Leeds Older People’s Forum is disappointed by the Government’s decision not to uphold the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s recommendations to compensate the women affected by the…
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November 4, 2024
Ask The Trustees
Trustees’ Week is a time for us to come together to celebrate the achievements of nearly one million trustees across the UK. Trustees are individuals who are…
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October 16, 2024
A week in the life of a Digital Skills Tutor
Digital Inclusion Coordinator for LOPF, Sam Haggart, talks about the joys and the challenges of her work as a Digital Skills Tutor, empowering older adults, thanks to…
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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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