‘Your Back Yard’ has just been awarded a 10k grant from the national lottery to work with the Friends of Wibsey Park in delivering a fun programme of fun, healthy…
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Collecting the evidence for a healthy living LS6!
Katy updates us on her research into healthy living in the LS6 area.
Continue Reading....Developing a Healthy Living Programme in Inner West Leeds
Katy, a student from the Uni of Leeds, introduces her research into promoting active lifestyles in the LS6 area.
Continue Reading....Inactivity, the new smoking!
According to recent research from Public Health England (PHE), more people die a premature death now from inactivity as they do from smoking (come to think of it, have you…
Continue Reading....Orienteering in the rain-What a great sport!
Fantastic orienteering session today in People's Park with the children from St Mary's school Halifax! Despite the horrendous weather, more than 100 kids, from, years 1, 3 and 5 had…
Continue Reading....Evaluation of Healthy Living Park project finally hits the news stands!
Not sure what to make of the fact that the People’s Park ‘Healthy Living Park’ Project in Halifax took 7 months to develop and deliver, whilst the Evaluation into its…
Continue Reading....Your Back Yard are hiring!
Thanks to a grant from the lottery funded 'Big Potential', which helps social enterprises get ready for social investment, we are looking to recruit.
Continue Reading....Healthy Living Park, the second!
After a highly successful pilot project in ‘People’s Park’ Halifax last year, YBY is delivering a second HLP project in Haw Hill Park in Normanton, near Wakefield, in partnership with…
Continue Reading....A New Deal For Communities, mark 2?
Remember the halcyon days of regeneration, back in the nineties and early noughties?
Continue Reading....The Price of Olympic Glory
The Olympics are over, team GB have wiped the floor with everyone bar the Americans. And yet, that success has comuge price
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