Some of our Saturday Social Club members recently enjoyed a residential trip to the Northern College in Barnsley to study Stress Management and Stress Awareness. They selected the courses to help manage their levels of stress and learn new coping skills, mechanisms and techniques. Shabana Kosar, Choices Co-ordinator says: “The aim of the trip was [...]
CONTINUE READING →Our latest what’s on is OUT. Find out the who, what, where and when with all FGF activities and get a heads up about new activities and groups on the horizon. Download your copy of July and August’s What’s On guide here.
CONTINUE READING →Our Community Builder Hiesha has come up with a quick, simple and tasty idea to offer a little respite to carers. Hiesha is working in the Harehills area to support carers from BAME communities as part of Connecting Communities. The aim of this work is to enable carers to access activities and provide them with [...]
CONTINUE READING →The groundbreaking Leeds project, Manbassadors, which reaches out to isolated people to support their mental health with a simple intervention of bite size support on a very local level, is celebrating two years of success with a Poem Portrait Exhibition led by Space2 on lampposts across Harehills, in East Leeds. There’s a story in the [...]
CONTINUE READING →Our latest what’s on guide is now out! Mindfulness, fitness, gentle exercise, workshops and the usual favourites – we’re really looking after you this month. PLUS some of our activities are starting to meet up in real life, so please do check for more information. Download your copy as a PDF here. [...]
CONTINUE READING →Edition 5 of City Unlocked has a focus on food and the fun of counting the broccoli florets to win a wonderful healthy food box. A reminder that food can be grown anywhere, from a windowsill indoors to an allotment outside. As well as promoting some local healthy food schemes, this edition features an article [...]
CONTINUE READING →Yoga Shine Saturdays - put a shine on your Saturdays with our new Yoga Shine online class. These classes are for beginners and very friendly but advanced yogis will find benefits too. In each class, we will explore the element of Earth, Water, Air and Fire and also reflect on certain areas of our life. Annemarie [...]
CONTINUE READING →City Unlocked 4, ‘t’internet edition’, provides information about all the different ways that people can get hold of a device, donated or bought, and ways to improve skills, doing courses online and free to use IT spaces. Tales from Lockdown focuses on one man who attends groups across the Orion Consortium and has moved quite [...]
CONTINUE READING →Here’s a FREE eight week Mindfulness course for Leeds Deaf BSL users and people with hearing loss. With BSL interpreters, speech and captions please find out more here and here – both links on YouTube. Fridays 12th Feb – 2nd April 2021 / 10 -12.30pm on Zoom To book please email tracey@fgfleeds.org or text/video call 07523 515266. [...]
CONTINUE READING →Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about working with people to co-ordinate holistic person-centred care? Would you like to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across a range of partners? We are looking for energetic and highly motivated individuals to fill the following position: CARE CO-ORDINATOR Salary £23,501 per annum pro rata [...]
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