On Friday we ran the very first ‘Valuing our skills’ session at Armley helping hands. We worked with Madeline from NDTI to put together a session that…

Well its the last week in August…and therefore the last week of summer?! Say it isn’t so! Its nearly time for me to begin my Christmas countdown……

We want to share with you the presentation we gave about Time to Shine at this year’s Leeds Older People’s Forum AGM. It’s a celebration of everything that we’ve achieved…

Rural Action Yorkshire (RAY) works with communities to enable development – whether that be broadband access, housing, good neighbours, community development plans or hubs for older people. As a…

I don’t feel like an old woman More than half of people aged 75 and over live alone “It’s just what happens isn’t it? I thought I’d…

I didn’t think this would happen to me Loneliness should not be a symptom of old age “I’ve always been active. Walking, swimming, even a bit of…

Activities happening around Leeds that we’ve come across this week:  Walking Football – Play the beautiful game at a walking pace.Every Friday at Guiseley afc 6:00pm-7:00pmContact 01943 430499 or walkingfootball@virginmedia.com…

Writing Back is an award-winning University of Leeds letter writing project matching School of English undergraduate students as pen pals with older Yorkshire residents. Now in its…

Time to Shine and its delivery partner Sage (a partnership of Yorkshire MESMAC and Age UK Leeds) tried something new this year for Pride: offering a “mellow space”…

By Hanna Wilcock, Learning Facilitator, Time to Shine We held a dementia seminar that looked at the different ways of helping somebody diagnosed with dementia stay integrated…