July 13, 2017

Funding Opportunity: Round 5 of Small Funds Focuses on Transport

Small Funds, delivered by Leeds Community Foundation, supports innovative short-term projects all over Leeds. Awards are between £5,000 and £10,000 and should be spent within twelve months.…

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July 7, 2017

West Yorkshire Playhouse: Autumn/Winter 2017 Season

West Yorkshire Playhouse have announced their Autumn/Winter 2017 Season.  If you are over the age of 50 you could review some of these events as a Community…

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June 30, 2017

Leeds Older People’s Forum AGM

The impending crisis in social care gets frequent coverage in the news these days, and the Third Sector has a huge stake in the issues.  This year,…

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June 29, 2017

From a Participant: Thank You

A participant of the Walk With Me project, delivered by Feel Good Factor, had some lovely words to share about how Time to Shine has helped her: …

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June 28, 2017

Food, Glorious Food!

Young at Arts are celebrating their project with a final event: Food, Glorious Food, at Left Bank.  It will be a fantastic afternoon featuring award-winning dance company, Protein. …

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June 28, 2017

Job Vacancy at West Yorkshire Playhouse

Older People’s Programme Manager We have an exciting opportunity for an organised and creative individual to develop our newly formed Older People’s Programme at West Yorkshire Playhouse.…

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June 22, 2017

Job Vacancy: Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Time to Shine monitoring and evaluation assistant Leeds Older People’s ForumPermanent7 hours per week, £15,816 per annum (pro rata) As a monitoring and evaluation assistant you will…

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June 22, 2017

Pop-up! Dementia-Awareness Choir

Dementia is a common condition that is commonly misunderstood. Stigma and fear can lead to people losing confidence to do the things they’ve always done, and consequently…

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June 8, 2017

Have your say: Why don’t we just talk more about loneliness? [Big Issue North]

Jim Garside, Time to Shine’s Administration Officer, wrote a comment piece for the Big Issue about loneliness in Leeds. It calls for the need to reduce the stigma…

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June 5, 2017

Armley Helping Hands Celebrates Jo Cox

The Jo Cox Commission is promoting a Great Get Together around the country in June. Armley Helping Hands is joining in with a 60s disco!  Loneliness and…

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June 1, 2017

Age Friendly Leeds: What’s Your Pledge?

Everyone can do something to make Leeds more age friendly.  Leeds City Council’s Public Health Resource Centre recently hosted a “Want to Know More” information session covering…

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May 28, 2017

Ian’s experience: Dementia Friendly Leeds

Before I did my work placement with Dementia Friendly Leeds I did not have much knowledge when it came to Dementia but I was interested to learn.…

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