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April 30, 2018

Time to Shine Celebration Event – 25 May

Time to Shine Celebration Event Friday 25 May 11am-1pm Leeds City Museum, Millenium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH Join us in the gorgeous Brodrick Hall, at Leeds City…
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April 25, 2018

Co-production: Beyond the Buzz

“Co-production” is a popular buzz word these days. The shift toward doing things with people rather than for or at them has grown in popularity for the delivery of third sector…
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April 23, 2018

Small Funds: Finding People Who Are Hard to Find

The Small Funds project is designed to focus on reaching people who have historically been less likely to engage in traditional services: carers, men, people from BAME backgrounds,…
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April 17, 2018

Job Opportunity: Armley Helping Hands

Community Engagement Worker, Don’t Call Me Old Job Role: Community Engagement Worker Salary: £20,209.63 Contract: Fixed Term Contract for 30 Months (Including 6 months’ probation period) Annual Leave:…
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March 21, 2018

Our Learning from the Cara Project

The Cara project engaged with older people of Irish heritage to reconnect them to each other and to their Irish roots. Time to Shine’s local evaluator, Care Connect, looked…
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March 21, 2018

More than a Mealtime: What We’ve Learned

More than a Mealtime was started by Crossgates and District Good Neighbours CIC and has since scaled up to exist in other parts of the city. People…
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March 19, 2018

Want to Know More about Social Isolation?

‘Want to know more about’ is a series of information sessions that cover topics that are important to you and your local community, brought to you by…
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March 2, 2018

Community Correspondent: Still Alice

My yesterdays are disappearing and my tomorrows are uncertain By Steve, Leeds Older People’s Forum Community Correspondent Hi my Name is Steve I’m 69 years old and…
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March 2, 2018

Bee Together welcomes Leeds University students

Bee Together is happy to welcome Students from Leeds University’s Sociology in Action-Urban Impact Programme: Abbey Fish and Louis Prosser. The School of Sociology and Social Policy, through…
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March 1, 2018

Round 7 of Small Funds is Open for Business

Small Funds, our project delivered by Leeds Community Foundation, is open for applications as of 1 March 2018.  Local organisations can apply for between £5,000 and £10,000 to…
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