West Yorkshire

At a glance

West Yorkshire

20

projects supported in West Yorkshire

Over £ 37000

spent across the 20 projects

Over 2500

people benefitting from the projects

Kidz Aware

The charity are supporting hundreds of vulnerable families of disabled children/adults many struggling with mental health. The funding would provide food parcels to the most vulnerable at Christmas and gifts from Santa Claus for the children this is to ensure they have food on their Christmas table and at least one present.

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Leeds Baby Bank

At their weekly Outreach service, called Leeds Baby Bank on the Road, the charity provide signposting, advice and essential items to families in need. The demand for this service has massively increased this year as the cost of living crisis has deepened and as more families are plunged into poverty. The funding will enable the charity to purchase enough baby milk and food for 200 families.

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Survivors West Yorkshire (Ben’s Place)

The project will offers counselling sessions to victims of sexual violence and the grant funding will allow them to add extra counselling sessions packaged (up 20 sessions per package) three times their normal capacity- taking the number of counselling session packages from 25 to 28 for December 2022 - December 2023.

The Neighbourhood Project CIC

Since 2020, the charity have been providing a basic food and toiletries parcel service to people in south Bradford on a referral-only basis from trusted agencies, targeting those who are experiencing the most extreme financial vulnerability and have mobility issues to access food banks, and our volunteers home deliver them a mix of food and toiletries products once a week. The cost of living crisis has increased the demand on this service.

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Platform 1

Platform 1 wish to offer support to disadvantaged people who have mental health issues caused or exacerbated by the cost of living crisis. This is in the form of a weekly support group where people can come to a warm space, make crafts which will help their lifestyle and talk with people about their concerns.

Huddersfield Town Disabled Supporters

The charity wanted funding to provide a buffet at their Christmas meeting that will include entertainment raffles and presents. Many members are claiming benefits or are in care and would find it difficult in paying an £8.00 buffet charge. The group offers the opportunity for disabled people to meet in a community group and includes members who suffer from isolation and loneliness, and is an opportunity to go out and attend our meetings.

Dewsbury Rams

Looking Back run weekly reminiscence sessions “Memories Clubs" in Dewsbury, Batley and Huddersfield supporting the socially isolated and those with memory loss problems, like dementia and Alzheimer's. The sessions in Dewsbury offer support for those with memory loss problems, their carers and members of our older community who are suffering from social isolation through a lack of engaging activities which match their lifelong interests.

Serendipity Creative Writers

Through their workshops the charity are aiming to build and sustain strong, richly diverse communities, reduce isolation and loneliness for everyone, particularly those suffering from poor mental health, physical disabilities, the unemployed, carers, low income parents, generally socially isolated individuals, those from socially deprived areas, immigrants, refugees, people from minority ethnic backgrounds and individuals of the LBGTQ community.

Lads West Yorkshire CIC

The charity would like to ensure two of their can run groups for longer. The peer group has provided a much-needed support source for men of South Asian heritage and it is vital we continue the group and provide that mental health support. The other group is the music therapy they are running at a local university to help support the mental health of male students and suicide prevention work.

All Saints Normanton Community Project TA The Well Project

The Well Project/Normanton Food Bank work with referral partners to provide emergency food parcels for people in crisis. This funding, if successful, will help us to support people in crisis in our community and the surrounding areas by providing them with an emergency food parcel and advice and/or signposting. We're applying for funds to replenish stocks of food and toiletries, which will allow us to continue to support people in crisis.

NLY Community Sport

The charity wanted to create a Multi-Sports session on an evening for adults with disabilities and learning difficulties in Wakefield. Participants will have access to a pool table, table tennis, badminton equipment, boccia equipment, an astroturf pitch.

Umbrella Yoga CIC

The project will provide 20 yoga sessions to some of the most vulnerable people in the community: people struggling with mental and physical wellness, lacking financial independence, often living on the periphery of society. - The yoga sessions involve gentle movements and controlled breathing practices, which calm the nervous system and safely develop physical and mental wellbeing.

Food For Fort

A volunteer run community café that helps people suffering from with isolation and food poverty and provide a warm place. Families can come to the café from 3pm - 5pm and additional support is available in the school holidays

Growing Works

Growing Works are hoping to feed their ‘Bud’ participants on session by extending the session time and creating a cooking programme. Their participant base is predominantly vulnerable and isolated adults on low incomes who can struggle with self-care due to both their mental health and the soaring cost of living. Participants will be involved in the making of the food, therefore allowing further opportunities for learning .

Light Up Black and African Heritage Calderdale

These sessions shall aim to address issues concerning human right to key knowledge on certain underlying health conditions commonly associated with the BAME community from local epidemiological data. community dialogue and engagement sessions with community, shall be having different session like exercise routines, crafts and art, Cooking as well as different types of creative writing and creative workshops which are avenues that people are keen to be a part of as a tool to alleviate loneliness, and isolation but also to improve on mental and well-being.

Daylight Stars

The charity are paying a community champion to bring together and support a multi-generational and multi-cultural group of adults to access gentle exercise for companionship, to fight loneliness and isolation and boost mental and physical health in Harehills, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Creating a legacy by building a strong community meetup group and paying activity leaders to teach exercise techniques and sequences to participants so that they can continue to meet and participate in self-led exercise together after the project finishes.

Oasis Christian Centre

The project is aimed at the physical & mental welfare of young mothers and infants in our deprived community. It will look to engage and support mothers & infants in regular, initially weekly, social groups involving singing and making music.

Grow Wakefield

This year Grow Wakefield have been working with partners to develop a Sanctuary Garden on the roof of the Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield in order to help to welcome Asylum Seekers and Refugees to the district The aim of the initiative is to improve mental health and wellbeing by providing a space for new arrivals to grow vegetables as part of a community, learn about each other's cultures through food growing and to allow them to share the produce grown.

Refresh Carers

The project needed funding to run two courses in 2023 for unpaid parent carers focusing on personal development goals, confidence building, and well-being sessions. The courses would be free and sessions will cover, confidence building, well-being topics, an art/wellbeing facilitator, Carers' rights, quizzes on topics discussed, goal setting, 1-1 support and group work

Mafwa Theatre CIC

This grant will support the delivery of five weekly creative women’s workshops from . The sessions focus on bringing people from different communities together to improve their mental health through creative activity such as drama games, roleplay and storytelling.