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July 5, 2016

Time to Shine at Hunslet Gala

Time to Shine had a lovely afternoon at sunny Hunslet Time to Shine had a prime position just by the main entertainment area so were really in the thick of…
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July 1, 2016

Focus Group Participants Needed!

Time to Shine’s local evaluation team is arranging a number of focus group sessions for older people. Each session is jointly led by an academic researcher and an…
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June 30, 2016

AWOC Conference Reflections

Ageing Without Children hosted a national conference in Birmingham on 27 June 2016 to talk about how to plan for a later life if you can’t rely…
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June 27, 2016

Join us for Leeds Pride placard-making on 13th July

We are having a placard-making session for Leeds Pride at the LOPF HQ.  We are asking anybody interested in crafts to come along and help us create…
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June 27, 2016

​Learning Disability Community Development Project

We are looking for a delivery partner to help us gain a better understanding of how many older learning disabled people are experiencing social isolation in our…
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June 14, 2016

Success stories from the Time to Shine BME Network

I’m not sad and depressed any more An elderly Indian woman was referred to Time to Shine BME Network by a group leader. She was very isolated as she wasn’t…
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June 6, 2016

Volunteers’ Week: A volunteer’s experience of Shared Tables, More than a Mealtime

To celebrate Volunteers’ Week we want to share positive stories from volunteers that work with our delivery partners to improve the lives of older people across Leeds. Shared Tables…
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June 6, 2016

Loneliness and Me: Ted’s Story

I’d been a driver all my life — it’s what I always wanted to do ever since I was a little boy. Deliveries, then ambulance driving. I loved joking with…
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June 6, 2016

Loneliness and Me: Becky’s Story

My husband was given 51 weeks to live after a cancer diagnosis. Because he was very ill for almost a year before he died I sort of…
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June 1, 2016

Young at Arts: An Afternoon of Dance

Photos by David LindsaySince September 2015, the Young at Arts partnership have been delivering all sorts of cultural and artistic activities, including creative writing, theatre, singing, and…
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