Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing next month…
November 2021
In November, among other activities, we have…
- published a report and toolkit about Time to Shine Small Funds
- began recruitment of LOPF’s new CEO
- published a briefing summarising delivery partners’ recent learning
- reviewed bench applications, with the Age Friendly Steering Group and Leeds Civic Trust, for the Take a Seat campaign.
- attended Purple Tuesday , and delivered a Dementia Friends session in person, at the White Rose Shopping Centre
- took part in a City Ambition Workshop to add an Age and Dementia Friendly focus
- delivered an Ageism awareness session with Leeds City Council Care Delivery Service, as part of their Wellbeing Wednesday digital programme
- presented at the Campaign to End Loneliness Conference on how we have used learning and evaluation to deliver Time to Shine
December 2021
In December, we expect to…
- launch the new LOPF website (on Wednesday 1 December)
- publish a report about our approach to Monitoring and Evaluation
- publish a report about Time to Shine and the arts
- host a Time to Learn seminar to look at how TTS projects have supported older LGBT+ people
- review all responses to our Shine magazine reader survey
- submit all final monitoring data to the National Lottery Community Fund and to the evaluators, Ecorys
- attend festive celebrations organised by our delivery partners for their older members
- report on the progress of Time to Shine to the Core Partnership Board
- shortlist for the new LOPF CEO (closing date 13 December)