Here is a brief summary of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month …
November 2020
Our staff team continues to work effectively from home, with the challenges that brings.
We have:
- received and shared the news about the Lottery decision for an additional year of funding for Time to Shine
- held weekly skills share sessions with Neighbourhood Networks
- published learning briefings on Mindfulness and What can we do over the festive season?
- continued to promote and celebrate Time to feel good about ageing
- prepared the new co-production toolkit, with our local evaluators at the Centre for Loneliness Studies (Sheffield University), for a launch in January 2021
- begun to develop plans for intergenerational projects in partnership with Leeds Community Foundation
- launched the Neighbourhood Networks Digital Inclusion Working Group, to continue building their capacity to support more older people to get online
- supported delivery partners to prepare for Covid compliant Christmas activities
December 2020
Among other activities during this month, we expect to:
- launch our Wise Up To Ageism sessions
- deliver over 5,000 copies of the December issue of Shine magazine to over 40 distributors across the city
- launch the Leeds Neighbourhood Networks evaluation report
- launch the Neighbourhood Networks’ business support project ‘Listening Ear’
- Supporting Neighbourhood Networks with the changing national Covid19 restrictions
- facilitate a digital Christmas social event with TTS delivery partners
- promote the Age and Dementia Friendly Business Guide across Leeds
Linda Glew
Time to Shine Programme Manager (Legacy)