What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds Community Foundation and 100% Digital Leeds award nine Community Organisations across Leeds with grants of up to £10,000 to help tackle inequalities around digital access thanks to money raised from the Leeds Digital Ball 2024. Approximately 13-19 million people aged 16+ in the UK are digitally excluded due to
Around 5,000 children across Leeds will access nutritious food and fun activities thanks to an initiative run by Leeds City Council and Leeds Community Foundation this summer. The Healthy Holidays programme, now in its seventh year, provides fun activities and nutritious food for children whose families may struggle during the
A pioneering grants fund with £150,000 to give to local Leeds-based organisations and groups opens today (15 March 2023). In partnership with the National Lottery Climate Action Fund, Climate Action Leeds, Leeds Community Foundation and Together for Peace, the fund will award grants of up to £5,000 to local organisations,
A funding programme that enables the start-up of socially enterprising ideas, for people in Leeds with care and support needs, has recently awarded its 100th grant. The Ideas That Change Lives (ITCL) Fund is managed by Leeds Community Foundation in partnership with Leeds City Council and See Ahead. The fund
The school holidays are well underway, but Leeds City Council is reminding eligible families that there’s still time to sign up to this summer’s Healthy Holidays programme. The programme is aimed at school children who are eligible for free school meals and provides a fantastic range of clubs, activities and
Leeds City Council is appealing for volunteers to help run this year’s Healthy Holidays programme. The Healthy Holidays programme has been running since 2018 and provides children living in poverty with nutritious food, fun and engaging activities, and the chance to make friends and develop new skills during the school
Although we were only able to meet online or together safely within restrictions, Holbeck Together organised a jam-packed week of fun this half-term. Local children and their families joined us for a range of online activities throughout the week. They also enjoyed lots of nutritious, home-cooked meals, as well as
Leeds Community Foundation have launched The Leeds Fund strategic grants programme to support Resilience of Community Organisations across the city. The £600k fund will distribute grants to grassroots groups supporting core costs which will enable strategic development work alongside daily delivery, giving the sector the best chance of both delivering
In a bid to promote healthy eating habits, alleviate holiday hunger and help out parents to feed their families during the school holidays, South Leeds not-for-profit organisation Holbeck Together has run a bi-weekly initiative providing food packs and recipe ideas for families. Funded by Leeds Community Foundation’s Healthy Holidays Fund,
Middleton Woods in south Leeds was ringing with children’s voices and laughter when they joined a Health for All Family Fun day this week. Sixty local parents and children built their own magical Fairy Kingdom among the trees, making fairy doors, creating tree decorations from shells, painting stones and gathering