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June 28, 2017

Food, Glorious Food!

Young at Arts are celebrating their project with a final event: Food, Glorious Food, at Left Bank.  It will be a fantastic afternoon featuring award-winning dance company, Protein. …
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June 22, 2017

Pop-up! Dementia-Awareness Choir

Dementia is a common condition that is commonly misunderstood. Stigma and fear can lead to people losing confidence to do the things they’ve always done, and consequently…
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June 22, 2017

Job Vacancy: Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Time to Shine monitoring and evaluation assistant Leeds Older People’s ForumPermanent7 hours per week, £15,816 per annum (pro rata) As a monitoring and evaluation assistant you will…
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June 8, 2017

Have your say: Why don’t we just talk more about loneliness? [Big Issue North]

Jim Garside, Time to Shine’s Administration Officer, wrote a comment piece for the Big Issue about loneliness in Leeds. It calls for the need to reduce the stigma…
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June 5, 2017

Armley Helping Hands Celebrates Jo Cox

The Jo Cox Commission is promoting a Great Get Together around the country in June. Armley Helping Hands is joining in with a 60s disco!  Loneliness and…
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June 1, 2017

Age Friendly Leeds: What’s Your Pledge?

Everyone can do something to make Leeds more age friendly.  Leeds City Council’s Public Health Resource Centre recently hosted a “Want to Know More” information session covering…
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May 28, 2017

Ian’s experience: Dementia Friendly Leeds

Before I did my work placement with Dementia Friendly Leeds I did not have much knowledge when it came to Dementia but I was interested to learn.…
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May 27, 2017

Louise’s experience: Dementia Friendly Leeds

My experience at Dementia Friendly Leeds will not be forgotten quickly. I have had a really positive experience here and will take the key skills I have…
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May 25, 2017

Research Based Innovations in Healthy Ageing Symposium

A mix of academics, postgraduate researchers, primary healthcare stakeholders and a sprinkling of people from the voluntary sector made up the seventy of so delegates at this…
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May 15, 2017

More than a Mealtime Lives Up to Its Name

A Time to Shine project has meant finding something beyond friendship for two of its participants, Anita and Ken. More than a Mealtime, delivered by Cross Gates…
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