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April 1, 2020

Call for mentors to support Yorkshire leaders and entrepreneurs

Harrogate-based organisation Next-Up, supported by Leeds City Council, is looking for 500 senior people to mentor Yorkshire entrepreneurs and leaders from public, private and voluntary sectors who…
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March 31, 2020

Everyone can contribute

It’s fantastic to see so much positive community spirit and innovative ideas about how we can work together to do our best for everyone in this new…
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March 31, 2020

Time for legacy when the light shines

We have, collectively, worked so hard to reduce loneliness and social isolation among older people in Leeds and it is heart-breaking to be now sharing the message…
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March 27, 2020

How’s the remote working?

Time to Shine staff, like those of so many other organisations, are now working at home, as we seek to prevent the spread of coronavirus and protect…
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March 26, 2020

Dancing the Small Moments

Time to Shine delivery partner, Yorkshire Dance, is delighted to share a series of five animations inspired by their recent work in Leeds care homes. The films…
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March 25, 2020

We’re all in this together: coping with isolation across the generations

This week – 23 to 29 March 2020 – is National Intergenerational Week. A week when many of us had planned activities that brought different generations together.…
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March 25, 2020

Social interaction is vital for human health

It has been long known that human contact and interaction with other people is a basic human need and we at Time to Shine, with all our…
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March 24, 2020

Become a Community Care Volunteer

Community Care Volunteering is a city-wide volunteer programme operating across Leeds, to ensure systems are in place to care for people and communities during the COVID-19 outbreak.…
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March 19, 2020

Garforth NET – ringing the changes

Leeds Neighbourhood Networks Schemes are in the process of temporarily stopping their many and diverse activities for older people during the Covid-19 outbreak. This is an enormous…
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March 11, 2020

No man is an isola

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; (John Donne, English poet, 1572-1631) I…
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