What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
I haven’t been ‘clapping for our carers’ on a Thursday evening, there I said it. Not because I don’t care but because I do, too much, the clapping is just too easy and there is too much that needs doing. Social Care gets a mixture of being told its really
Following two years of development since becoming a charity, Holbeck-based People Matters are now celebrating as their hard work has been recognised at a star studded award ceremony in Bradford. People Matters collected the prestigious ‘Social Enterprise Award 2018’ at the awards hosted by Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber. The
Nearly fifteen years since it originally formed in 2002 People Matters is changing into a charity from April. As one of the first Community Interest Companies (CICs) and a social enterprise it has always been not for profit, with a volunteer board and a wide membership base supporting people with
Over the last 18 months a small group of members at People Matters have worked together to develop and pilot a new community business making and selling wholesome snacks from mixtures of dried fruit, nuts and seeds etc. Now they have just successfully gained a new grant to move forward
People Matters, the Holbeck-based social enterprise that supports adults with learning difficulties, held its AGM recently at Leeds City College’s Technology Campus. Over 50 of the members got together to talk about what the organisation has been doing, how they have been involved as well as look at the new