As the summer holidays hit, everyone’s social calendar starts filling up! So, our film club has decided to take a summer break. This means, our film club will not be meeting up on zoom, every Thursday, at 3pm. However, they will be back in autumn as the days get darker Read more…
Our digital inclusion project with ‘Bramley Elderly Action’ has come to an end. Our project with BEA initially started in times of strict COVID restrictions as YBY and BEA identified many of our beneficiaries were digitally isolated and lacked the digital literacy to stay connected in lockdown. Therefore, with funding Read more…
Our ‘Getting Active and Online’ Crowdfunder is now LIVE! Since December 2020, we’ve been hosting free exercise classes for older adults every week, all in the name of allowing people to keep active and socialising despite restrictions. We’ve found from participants that they like the flexibility, reduced time commitment and Read more…
Its Friday morning, its 10am, the sun was blazing down on the Bramley Arena, (aka Black Lion Fields), and Bramley Walking Wanderers were once again out in force. Some notable absentees were Martin and Val, sunning themselves in Morocco after having used their own 50thwedding anniversary as an opportunity to Read more…
We were approached by a Linking Leeds worker to offer 1-2-1 digital support to a senior lady. Yesterday we visited her beautiful flat in Wetherby which overlooked the river to offer support sending emails, writing digital notes, navigating WhatsApp, online banking and online shopping. In between all the digital business Read more…
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been brainstorming a couple of new ideas and projects that would spread our healthier and happier living agenda across Leeds. One bright idea that has stuck and is developing weekly is… to set up our very own community café that aims to Read more…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. On social media throughout this week we have been sharing information about our FREE activities you can get involved in to better your mental health. Keep on reading to find out what activities we shared! Online Exercise Classes We all know exercising can help Read more…
We were down at Greenhill Primary School yesterday running a Yoga and Netball non-traditional after school club session! Next week we will be running a Boxercise session for Yrs 5&6 with Fresh 4 Life Fitness. So if your child goes to Greenhill sign them up to join us next Monday!
You may have seen that we have relaunched our ‘GAAO’ project in partnership with Active Leeds. If you have not then where have you been!? You can read all about the relaunch here. If you want to join our online classes which are open to all ages and abilities all Read more…
‘Living Streets’ are encouraging everyone to walking at least 20 minutes everyday in celebration of May being #NationalWalkingMonth. 20 minutes walking every day could look like a short dog walk, a casual stroll in the park, or a walk around your local shops. But on every other Thursday your 20 Read more…