Tag: Pat Mcgeever

Community Cabs to provide lifeline for Leeds disabled residents

A new ‘Community Cabs’ scheme will soon be helping disabled residents in Leeds get around the city much more easily. Middleton-based community development organisation Health For All is starting a Community Cabs service, which offers an accessible car to carry a wheelchair passenger – and a couple of friends, colleagues

£2 million Euro fund for South Leeds?

  Representatives from thirty community organisations across South Leeds met recently to discuss the opportunity to bid for £2 million of funding from the European Union. Pat McGeever from Health For All has been working with Voluntary Action Leeds and Leeds City Council to develop the plans. She explained: “Community

A Feast of community art at the Tetley

  On Wednesday (12 February 2014) Leeds’ newest art gallery, the Tetley, will host an exhibition of work produced in collaboration with local community groups from South Leeds. The exhibition has been called Tetley Feast, inspired by the Hunslet Feast, a community festival that ran for over 100 years. The

Belle Isle’s old library hosts BITMO AGM

  BITMO (Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation) has recently taken the old Belle Isle library and turned it into a community facility. Last Thursday, 26 September, was its first booking as it hosted the organisation’s Annual General Meeting. The guest speaker was Pat McGeever, Chief Executive at local charity Health

Happy 21st birthday, Health For All!

Local charity Health For All has celebrated its 21st birthday at a special event held at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre in Middleton. The event, which coincided with Health For All’s AGM, saw food, entertainment and a number of speeches celebrating the achievement of an organisation which started in an attic in