FGF Family Friendly Fun for February Half Term
14 February 2024We’re really enjoying spending time with families at Feel Good Factor. Our Family Cookery Club has been busy over the past few weeks cooking food from different countries, so far the Caribbean, Italy and Mexico – with more to come. Our Holiday Club enjoyed two full days of fun, sport and travel – keeping everyone on their […]
Getting Crafty with Feel Good Factor
26 January 2024We’ve recently been running some creative sessions at Feel Good Factor with some more planned in the future. Soo Taylor, Community Wellbeing Worker says “we recently completed a series of sensory candle making workshops and we think they look really lovely, they were for gifts or just a sensory treat. At the first session we […]
The Feel Good Factor Enhance Service
30 November 2023Could you benefit from our Enhance service offering tailored help to people aged 18+ supported by the Chapeltown Neighbourhood Team and other professionals, to help resolve issues that may be preventing them from being independent and socialising with others. We offer: One to one support for up to 12 weeks to help people resolve issues […]
Hovingham Coffee Mornings – a positive space for parents
21 November 2023Our Hovingham Coffee Morning for parents and carers of children at Hovingham Primary School is a really sociable way to start the day each Tuesday in term time, straight after drop off at 8.30am until 10am. Beverley Gilbert, Feel Good Factor’s Community Engagement Worker and Health & Wellbeing Coach, says “We have speakers in sometimes […]
The John Muir Award
06 November 2023Earlier this year Beverley Gilbert, our Community Engagement Worker & Health & Wellbeing Coach Chapeltown PCN, supported families in partnership with Kiri from Yorkshire Dales National Park to complete the John Muir Eco Award which encourages people of all backgrounds to connect with, enjoy and care for wild places. The group stayed two nights in […]
Deaf Group Cooking Up a Storm!
06 November 2023Some of our Deaf Cafe members are meeting up regularly for a Cookery Session at Feel Good Factor and they are cooking up a storm! Six profoundly Deaf BSL users aged 50+ from the Feel Good Factor Deaf Café have joined a six week cookery course run by Shabana Kosar, Choices Coordinator, with communication support […]
A Trip to Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales
18 October 2023Join Feel Good Factor on Wednesday 1st November on a trip to the very picturesque village of Clapham in Ingleborough, part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Clapham has a couple of shops, a great children’s playground and a fabulous café called The Old Sawmill. From the café you can do a lovely walk (approx. […]
Empowering Youth Through Cricket
28 September 2023In a vibrant collaboration during the October half term 2022, The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation joined forces Feel Good Factor to make a difference in the lives of children from the Chapeltown area. These children had not previously experienced the joy of playing cricket, so we introduced them to the sport through exciting Pop Up Cricket […]
36,872 service users and counting…
27 September 2023This year Feel Good Factor is celebrating our 20 year anniversary and during that time we have worked with an astonishing 36,872 service users. Since 2003, Feel Good Factor has been providing and developing a range of health and wellbeing activities and initiatives for local residents and across the city, delivering high quality services and […]
A Trip to Scarborough
05 September 2023At the end of August some of our Service Users enjoyed a day trip to Scarborough. Renata was so inspired by her day, and the adventures she got up as she explored Scarborough that she kindly wrote us a review! “I had a difficult start to the day, just didn’t wanted to wake up and […]