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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 30, 2024

Update: July 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In June among other activities, we have… In July…
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June 25, 2024

Greater than the sum of our parts….

In these weeks when there’s so much talk of a big change, perhaps we should look at the small… It’s Small Charity Week and I wanted to…
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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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May 31, 2024

Update: June 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In May among other activities, we have… In June…
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April 28, 2024

Update: May 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In April among other activities, we have… In May…
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April 25, 2024

Welcoming Emma

I have recently joined the team as Project Support Worker for the Travel With Confidence project which, when up and running, aims to help people with disabilities to…
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April 23, 2024

Leaving bereaving

I started working as Manager at Leeds Bereavement Forum (LBF) in January 2016. Having worked in the third sector for over twenty years at that point, I…
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April 17, 2024

Steering the station through the points

When the Age Friendly Steering Group (AFSG) were asked to take a look at the changes going on at Leeds City Train station, they went into strong planning…
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March 31, 2024

Update: April 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In March among other activities, we have… In April,…
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March 7, 2024

Local women, International Day

It’s International Women’s Day. We want to mark it by highlighting the difference older female activists continue to make in our communities and to all our lives.…
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February 29, 2024

Update: March 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month. In February, among other activities, we have… In March…
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