Your Back Yard is a Leeds-based social enterprise, working passionately since 2013 to help people live healthier and more active lives, and to improve their community facilities.
Providing opportunities for people, particularly older adults, to get more active.
Helping to improve community facilities, such as community building, parks and play areas.
Area based community planning and development.
Funding
We are funded through a mixture of grants, commissions and some contracted work. We have some funding to deliver free taster sessions, or to give advice or a bit of support, so do get in touch!
What we do
Provide opportunities for people to get more active, such as walking sports, guided walks, and online exercise classes.
Support the digitally excluded to get online.
Help communities get funding to improve their facilities (e.g. parks, play areas, community buildings).
Help communities do action plans to make their areas even better places to live.
Carry out feasibility studies to support community buildings.
Undertake evaluations of community programmes and projects.
Where to find us
We are about to move into our new office at Bramley Shopping Centre, Unit, LS132ET
Our current projects are
Daily online exercise classes.
Walking Football and walking netball.
Dgital support sessions in Bramley Café.
Ageing better through exercise.
Social Media Pages
We’ve got seven social media pages with loads of useful information, why not check them out?
The young at heart podcast is an informative but fun podcast from your back yard exploring a range of topics, fads and affairs concerning your health, happiness and fitness. Hosted by Rachael and Tony. Plenty of tips and discussion on staying fit and healthy as you age, health inequalities and why digital inclusion matters.
Hi everyone, I’m Kathryn and this summer I undertook a 2 month summer internship with Your Back Yard. In this blog post I talk about the roles I undertook with YBY, and the impact this Read more…
As we are now almost 6 months into our Care Home Digital Inclusion project, we wanted to provide everyone with a detailed update of how it is going so far. Since the project started in Read more…
Thanks to the support of 100% Digital, we’ve managed to begin our digital inclusion work within care homes! On Friday the 3rd of November, we had our first care home digital session at Headingley Hall Care Read more…