Projects

We have fortunately been granted funding from the Inner Northwest Committee to conduct a host of activities for older adults. Working in partnership with OWLS, we are creating a series of different activities. These activities include: walking football, walking netball, crown green bowling, a guided walk group and falls prevention/strength […]

We are fortunate enough to have been granted funding through The National Lottery’s Awards for All project! We are immensely grateful for the continued support from The National Lottery and are excited to continue putting this funding to good use. We will be utilising it to support our digital inclusion […]

We’re really excited to be working with Firvale Community Hub, an award-winning charity based in Sheffield that focuses on developing and improving the lives of people within this area. We have been fortunate enough to be commissioned to help establish a community cafe based here. We’re also looking to help […]

We will provide sports and fitness sessions for children and adults over the summer! This will include a Family Fun Day, Multisports sessions, Summer Football Tournament, Walking Football tournament and an Intergenerational Sports Day.

Starting NEXT WEEK we’ll be at the @hamara_hlc every Thursday morning delivering our Digital Inclusion Cafe! That means we’ve now got 3 Digital Cafes on the go across Leeds! Over the 9 weeks, we’re hoping to cover a range of topics depending on what our learners want to know – whether that’s […]

Who would have thought it? 10 years old already! From over 50 projects we have delivered over a decade we have selected our favourites! To find out more about these projects and all the others check out our projects page on our website! Read to the end to the end […]

NEW Digital Cafe coming to South Leeds!? We will be delivering our newest Digital Inclusion Sessions at MHA in Beeston! We are very excited to be working with MHA to help their members improve this digital skill!??‍? This Digital Cafe will be starting in February and running for 12 weeks! We can’t […]

After 10 weeks at Holt Park and 12 weeks at OWLS, our Digital Inclusion Cafes for the year are coming to an end. We have really enjoyed delivering these sessions to our learners and are so proud and amazed by their progress! Unlike our previous Digital Cafes, sessions at OWLS […]

We have some great news! The Reach Fund Have Awarded us £6250! This enables us to pursue our vision of a healthy living café in Bramley Shopping Centre! This funding allows us to prepare a very detailed business plan for the cafe. We are so excited about this new venture, […]

We’re so excited to announce our plans to start a WOMENS walking football team! After the success of our mixed team, we thought we’d look into starting a women’s over-40s team. In case you don’t know, walking football is just as it sounds! Football, just at a slightly slower pace […]

The second of our 3 Digital Cafes funded by National Lottery Awards for All will be at Holt Park Active in Northwest Leeds! We were approached by a representative from Leeds City Council running activities at Holt Park Active after presenting our projects at a conference held by 100% Digital. […]

We have been funded by ‘Places for People’ to offer digital support to the residents of Daisyfield Grange for 8 weeks! It will most certainly be a challenge getting their residents online as they have no experience using a device. However, we are always up for a challenge, wanting to […]

We have received funding from The National Lottery Awards for All to hire a Digital Inclusion Worker to run 3 new Digital Cafes in Headingley, Farnley, Wortley and Beeston! We hope by hiring a dedicated Digital Inclusion worker we will successfully be able to get digitally isolated older adults online […]

We are working in partnership with OWLS to get seniors living in the Inner Northwest active and social by running a walking group in Headingley.

We have been funded by the Inner North West Community Committee to deliver a programme of sports and healthy living activities for residents (particularly council residents) living in Headingley, Hyde Park, Woodhouse, Little London, and Weetwood! We will be working collaboratively with local organisations based in the areas listed above […]

All in a beautiful setting, free to anyone who can remember ‘Pan’s People’, outdoor toilets and spam sandwiches.

We’ve been commissioned to evaluate the impact of the work done so far by Windmill Hill’s Big Local scheme, in order to give direction for the final few years of the partnership.

To get more men participating in online groups, ‘Your Back Yard’ are hosting a Film and TV club exclusively for older men.

In October 2020, we were asked by the Windmill Hill Big Local to undertake a feasibility study into whether a renewable heating system or a community bike scheme could be potential major capital projects for Windmill Hill Big Local to pursue as part of their final plan.

In Autumn 2020, we were commissioned to help RWT write their final 5 community plan.

In Summer 2019, Sports England funded us to provide around 15 older people’s Neighbourhood Networks from across Leeds with sports taster sessions.

In March 2020 ‘Your Back Yard’ was commissioned by Windmill Hill Big Local to help them write their new 5 year plan. Future plans include creating a community hub in the church, more activities for locals and looking after the woodland.

A team of staff and associates from Your Back Yard worked on a project in partnership with the Beechwood, Ballantyne, and Bidston Village Big Local, based in The Wirral. We consulted with stakeholders, got feedback on the draft through a ‘mini-roadshow’ and communicated the plan through flyers.

In October 2018, Tony met with the Friends of Brackenhill Park group to discuss the work Your Back Yard did with Wibsey Park in 2017/18, with the view of running similar events in Brackenhill Park next summer. We consulted over 200 stakeholders, from councillors to primary school children, and are looking for funding to fulfill their requests.

Your Back Yard, EbTech and Kensa have been working together to put together a feasibility study into the possibility of using green spaces as a source of renewable energy, whilst solving the issue of waterlogged pitches. Thus would be a major capital investment with equally major payoffs for anyone wanting to take this forward!

Your Back Yard helped the Cardigan Centre in Leeds to develop a business plan, as well as research new ways they could bid for and fund resources.

In May 2017, Your Back Yard was commissioned by New Routes to help in proving the evidence base for an action plan of improvements for Highfields Country park.

We consulted to the community to find out what activities they’d like to see in the park, and carried out the delivery of this programme over 12 months.

We were commissioned by Rudheath Parish Council to find funding to refurbish a well used but out of date play area in Rudheath, near Northwich in Cheshire.

Together with NESEP, we prepared a strategy to guide the investment of potential EU funding in Community Led Local Development in Hull.

We are helping to inform a new community hub by consulting residents to see what activities would be popular.

We were appointed to undertake a feasibility study and prepare a Management Plan for Unity Hall, Nelson in Lancashire. A run down building with a proud past, we assessed local demand and prepared a set of recommendations for the building’s future development.

Your Back Yard supported The University of Leeds in their ‘Family Archive’ project. The aim of exploring past generations stories through artifacts like photographs, heirlooms, scrapbooks and recipes to keep their narratives alive for generations to come.  We connected the researchers at the university with local communities, particularly in Seacroft. […]

We are working with Seaton Valley Council to prepare action plans for its five villages.

Making Shieldfield Cleaner, Greener and Safer.

Developing an ‘Our Place’ Action Plan for Byker Old Town.

We were commissioned by the Residents Association to undertake a feasibility study into the long term viability of Annfield Plain Community Centre, County Durham.

On behalf of Newcastle City Council, we engaged people and organisations in the St Ann’s and Battlefield area of Newcastle in considering activities and improvements that they would like to see in their area.