1. Advocacy Support (partnership with RETAS, Solace and others) |
BME (all ages) |
Citywide |
"Keep Warm Cafes” for BME communities, offering confidential bilingual support and refreshments. Volunteers offering home visits, help with shopping to most vulnerable clients. |
2. Al Khidmat Centre |
BME and Older People |
LS6, LS7, LS8, LS9 |
Additional staff costs to provide hot meals, drinks, and help and assistance at the Centre. |
3. Association of Blind Asians BME Citywide |
BME |
Citywide (mostly in LS7, LS8 and LS9) |
Home visits and/or telephone support, visit 4 community groups to raise awareness of winter health, weekly community café at Mary Sunley House. Associated staffing/ volunteer costs. |
4. Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid |
Older People |
Belle Isle (inner South) |
Winter Support Visits to most vulnerable clients, handypersons, emergency shopping service. |
5.British Red Cross |
People with LTCs, BME |
Citywide |
Crisis payments to meet immediate need of vulnerable patients, identified by BRC ‘Support at Home’ and ‘Refugee Support’ services. E.g. oneoff electricity payment, food, or warm clothing for people discharged from hospital. |
6. Burmantofts Senior Action |
Older people |
Burmantofts (inner East) |
Home visits, winter warmth items (e.g. bedding), flyers, Zumba. |
7. Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London |
Older people |
Woodhouse, Little London (inner NW) |
Assisted shopping scheme including transport, and expanding telephone support, transport to group activities, long life food items. |
8. Fairfield Enterprise and Community |
Older people |
Bramley (LS13), Headingley, and LS16 |
Expand luncheon club for older people. Plus slippers and vegetable packs. |
9. Feel Good Factor |
People with LTCs, families |
Chapeltown, Harehills |
12 winter warming cooking classes targeting people with LD, LTC and families with young children. Plus free ‘take home’ bag of ingredients. |
10. Hawksworth Older People Support Services (HOPS) |
Older people |
Hawksworth (inner north west) |
Peer telephone calls, extend lunch club provision, transport to activities e.g. craft group, home delivery of hot meals |
11. Holbeck Elderly Aid |
Older people |
Holbeck (inner south) |
Winter Warmth Workshops, transport for shopping and activities, food parcels, newsletter, hot meals. |
12. Horsforth Live at Home Scheme |
Odler people |
Horsforth (outer north west) |
Pop-up coffee mornings “Meet Up @ Mine in Wintertime” in members’ own homes, plus some associated admin/travel costs and refreshments. |
13. Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network (partnership with Solace, PAFRAS, BRC) |
BME (all ages) |
Citywide |
Expand ‘Grace Hosting’ emergency accommodation scheme through funding associated staffing/meals and laundry/ client transport costs. |
14. Leeds Irish Health and Homes |
BME – older people |
Citywide (mostly east, north east, south) |
Provision of basic winter warmth clothing for vulnerable ‘working age’ and older people plus associated volunteer costs. |
15. Leeds Mind |
People with LTCs |
Citywide but primarily west and north west |
Winter Befriending Scheme for older people (over 65s) with long term and enduring mental health problems, plus 3 winter warmer groups. |
16. Leeds Sudanese Community Association |
BME (all ages) |
Citywide (mostly LS6, LS7, LS8, LS9, LS14, LS15) |
Soup Kitchen, Food Bank, and home deliveries, plus associated volunteer / transport/ admin costs. |
17. Leeds West Indian Centre |
BME (over 75s) |
Chapeltown, Harehills (LS7) |
Weekly winter soup meals and activities at the Centre, associated transport and staff costs including attendance and home visiting by community nurses from Mary Seacole Nurses Association. |
18. MENA (Meanwood Elders Neighbourhood Action) |
Older people |
Meanwood and Moortown |
Partial grant towards cost of wool and other materials. |
19. OPAL (Older People’s Action in the Locality) |
Older people |
LS16 (outer north west) |
Support “Snow Friends” scheme for most vulnerable clients, emergency shopping / food parcels, winter warmth items. |
20. Otley Action for Older People |
Older People |
LS21 (outer north west) |
Winter Telephone Contact Scheme, 3 coffee mornings, food hampers for most vulnerable members. |
21. People in Action |
Health |
Citywide |
Enable ‘Changing Lives’ clubs, which support adults (25 to 70 years) with LD, to run “Staying Safe and Healthy” projects. |
22. Sangam Forum |
BME – older people |
Citywide |
Telephone buddying/befriending scheme in Asian languages, to run for 3 hours per day. Assistance for shopping and attending medical appointments including associated staffing/admin/transport costs. |
23. Seacroft Parish |
Families |
Seacroft (LS14) |
Extend Youth Kitchen project in South Seacroft. Weekly meals provided at St Richard’s Church (North Seacroft). |
24. Simon on the Streets |
Homeless |
Citywide |
Expand outreach provision, working in partnership with York Street Medical Centre, providing instant care response packages |
25. South Leeds Live at Home Scheme |
Older people |
Beeston, Hunslet, Cottingley (LS10, LS11) |
Handyperson visits, small jobs, emergency food parcels. |
26. South Seacroft Friends and Neighbours |
Older people |
Seacroft (LS14) |
LCF funding towards cost of hot meals as part of existing lunch clubs for vulnerable elderly people in the area. |
27. Space2 (partnership with LS14 Trust) |
Families; People with LTCs |
LS14 (Seacroft and Gipton) |
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28. St John’s Lunch Club |
Older people |
Stanningley (LS28, West) |
LCF funding towards thermal clothing on condition that same beneficiaries don’t receive winter packs from LCC. |
29. St Vincent’s Support Centre |
Low income families, older people |
Citywide (mostly inner east and south) |
Continuation of food parcel service for destitute families; targeting older people to engage in social activities in the community café, including promoting low cost food/drink deals. The grant funds additional staffing and volunteering costs. |
30. Streetwise - Love Leeds |
Low income families; LTCs |
Citywide |
Help (warm clothing) packs and emergency food packs. |
31. Syrian Community |
People with LTCs |
East Leeds (LS8, LS9) |
LCF provided funding towards hot meals for free or a small donation for older people from local area only. |
32. Together Women |
Homeless, sex workers, other isolated women |
Citywide |
“Warmth for Women” scheme: two evening sessions as well as outreach visits, offering practical (hot meals, clothing, toiletries) and emotional support. |
33. Touchstone (Sikh Elders) |
BME – Older People |
Citywide |
Buddying, food shopping and home deliveries and associated volunteer costs. Winter Warmth interactive day at Apna Day Centre e.g. advice in Punjabi, exercise session and food packs. |
34. Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) |
BME – women and children |
LS6, LS7, LS8, LS9, LS10, LS11 |
Increase capacity of weekly craft & support group through funding materials/ transport/ volunteer/ professional trainer costs, plus warm blankets for members. |
35. Zest Health for Life |
Families |
LS6, LS7, LS8, LS9, LS10 |
3 Winter Warmth events in Meanwood and Moortown. 3 older people drop-ins at the Leeds Let’s Change centre in Kirkgate Market, low cost winter warmth items. |