The LEAF partnership, a consortium of six arts and culture organisations led by Yorkshire Dance, co-produced an integrated two-year programme giving socially isolated older people the opportunity…

Walk with Me linked volunteers (16+) to older people to provide support and encouragement to get out of the house.  Individual volunteers were linked to an individual…

Street Links was about finding local vulnerable and isolated older people, and gently connecting them with their neighbours and the local community. This project came to a…

Raat di Roti means ‘Evening Meal’ in Punjabi. They were part of Time to Shine until October 2017, when their project came to a close.  Volunteers invited…

Community First Yorkshire were formerly known as Rural Action Yorkshire. Their initial Time to Shine project, Community Connect, came to a close in June 2017.  The project worked…

Now that we are into our third year of Time to Shine, some of our projects from the first round of commissioning have drawn to a close.…

It’s been an amazing year here at Time to Shine; we’ve reached so many people and learned so much about how to reduce social isolation.  We saw…

Julia Edmunds, Time to Shine Learning Facilitator, reports back from ‘Ageing, Loneliness and Dementia’: a learning event at Hatfield Hall, Wakefield that took place on 16 November…

Young at Arts: LEAF Partnership Case Study by Shabina Aslam The Leeds Arts Education Forum – LEAF Partnership is a natural partnership given the location, ethos and outreach aims of the stakeholders:…

By Anna-Marie Garbutt, Project Coordinator, Bee Together Bee Together is a Time to Shine project aimed at older people with learning disabilities. Leeds is one of the only Ageing…