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June 27, 2016

​Learning Disability Community Development Project

We are looking for a delivery partner to help us gain a better understanding of how many older learning disabled people are experiencing social isolation in our…
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June 27, 2016

Join us for Leeds Pride placard-making on 13th July

We are having a placard-making session for Leeds Pride at the LOPF HQ.  We are asking anybody interested in crafts to come along and help us create…
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June 14, 2016

Success stories from the Time to Shine BME Network

I’m not sad and depressed any more An elderly Indian woman was referred to Time to Shine BME Network by a group leader. She was very isolated as she wasn’t…
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June 6, 2016

Loneliness and Me: Becky’s Story

My husband was given 51 weeks to live after a cancer diagnosis. Because he was very ill for almost a year before he died I sort of…
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June 6, 2016

Loneliness and Me: Ted’s Story

I’d been a driver all my life — it’s what I always wanted to do ever since I was a little boy. Deliveries, then ambulance driving. I loved joking with…
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June 6, 2016

Volunteers’ Week: A volunteer’s experience of Shared Tables, More than a Mealtime

To celebrate Volunteers’ Week we want to share positive stories from volunteers that work with our delivery partners to improve the lives of older people across Leeds. Shared Tables…
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June 1, 2016

Young at Arts: An Afternoon of Dance

Photos by David LindsaySince September 2015, the Young at Arts partnership have been delivering all sorts of cultural and artistic activities, including creative writing, theatre, singing, and…
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June 1, 2016

Time to Shine’s plans for the summer

Time to Shine will be out and about at various events in Leeds this summer.  If you are free it would be great to see as many of you…
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June 1, 2016

URGENT: LCF’s Small Funds ‘Funding Information Session’ is tomorrow

Funding Information Session tomorrow – Thursday, 2 June 2016 from 10:00 to 11:45 at Woodhouse Community Centre (Doreen Tinker Room 197 Woodhouse Street, Leeds, LS6 2NY) to…
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June 1, 2016

Time to Shine Stakeholder Survey

Time to Shine is funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Ageing Better programme.  For the next 5 years Time to Shine is contributing to a national evaluation of Ageing…
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May 26, 2016

OWLS are showing Bollywood films at Hyde Park Picture House

बॉलीवुड   બોલીવુડ   بالی ووڈ Bollywood – Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds HOUSEFULL 3 A hilarious family comedy as three men try to convince a father they are a…
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May 24, 2016

Dementia – a lonely place

Free dementia seminar from Time to Shine 23 June 2016 @Strawberry Lane Community Centre, 2-4pm As part of Time to Shine we are looking at hosting a variety…
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