What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new review detailing the impact of a pioneering asset-based community development programme in Leeds over a six-year period, has been published this month. Featuring in the ‘A review of ABCD in Leeds pathfinder sites (2019 -2025) A six-year journey from seeds to trees’, are the experiences of key stakeholders
Beeston-based mental health charity Touchstone has organised a walk and talk in Cross Flatts Park on Tuesday (10 September 2024) to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2024. The theme for this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day is “Changing the Narrative”. 1 in 5 of us will have thoughts about suicide
Throughout lockdown many of us have grown a new appreciation of the great outdoors, and a better understanding of its impact on our mental health and wellbeing. Inspired by this, local charity Touchstone’s projects Your Space, Mentally Healthy Leeds and the ABCD team have joined together to encourage people to
Touchstone’s MAP+ project has organised a Community Road Safety presentation on Friday (13 March 2020) at 2pm at the Hamara Centre in Beeston The presentation will be delivered by Leeds City Council Road Safety Team and will educate participants about the dangers and risk of distractive driving and hopefully change
Yorkshire mental health charity Touchstone ranks 9th in The Sunday Times Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2020 The Beeston-based charity also received the Discovering Potential award for the fourth year running in recognition of their work to employ people with lived experience. As well as this, Touchstone won the
Touchstone achieves Best Companies – Three star accreditation for the second year running Beeston-based mental health charity Touchstone celebrates achieving a coveted three star accreditation in the annual Best Companies – Sunday Times to Work for employee engagement, which is for extraordinary levels of employee engagement and is the highest
A new project to help families integrate starts this Sunday (21 September 2019). ‘No Margins’ is billed as family adventures in poetry and spoken word and runs at The Holbeck club. Touchstone’s Migrant Access Project Plus (MAP+) are working with Slung Low theatre and local poets after hearing of issues
Local residents marked the regeneration of Trentham Park in Beeston at an official relaunch event on Saturday (17 August 2019). Under sunny skies, local residents completed a ribbon-cutting ceremony, children played with the new equipment and everyone treated themselves to free ice cream. It followed the installation of a new
It was our pleasure to have funded the installation of a Free Little Library at Touchstone House, on Beeston Hill, just off Dewsbury Road. There are few things that beat the feel of a physical book; an experience many of us have lost in this digital age. Providing access to
The Beeston Young Ladies Cooking Club recently held their showcase event which was a great success and benefit for the young ladies who are aged 11-15. After recently securing funding from Touchstone and receiving donations from various Uncles and other sources in the community the club held a twenty-week course