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September 5, 2024

Happy Bus Pass

In July 2007 I applied for my first senior bus pass in person at Cross Gates Post Office. Since then I’ve used it to get all around…
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August 29, 2024

Update: September 2024

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

Navigating the Road Ahead

Bringing up the topic of retiring from driving can be a tricky subject to approach. For family members and loved ones, safety is usually the main concern.…
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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 31, 2024

Winter Fuel Payment and Pension Credit

Leeds Older People’s Forum is really concerned that older people in our city are going to miss out on the Winter Fuel Payment they rely on to…
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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 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 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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