Our Priority Is To Ensure That All People Across Leeds And West Yorkshire Have The Right To Food. Because Of This We Encourage Food Providers To SignPost Vulnerable People To The Services That Can Support Them. Below We Have Listed A Variety Of Organisations That Can Give Support For A Variety Of Needs.
Our Advice and Support Page Covers The Following:
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Foodwise Leeds helps to provide toolkits to offer help to workers, vulunteers and organisations who can provide food along with helping those with food insecurity. To access this Toolkit press the link below:
Healthy Start Vouchers are worth approximetly £4.25 and have the following benifits:
A £4.25 voucher provided each week of their pregnancy (from 10 weeks)
2 vouchers, worth a total of £8.50 each week for children from birth to 1 year
£4.25 vouchers each week for children between 1 and 4 years old
To Find Out More Press the Link Below:
Healthy Start are attempting to digitalise their system. They will have telephone access for those who are unbale to go online along with interpreters and translators over call for whoever may need them.
There are many different organisations that can help with any concerns about finance and budgeting for food:
Provide the details of all organisations and charities across Leeds and provide free and independant care. You can contact them via phone, online and face to face.
Provides straightforward and affordable financial services. It provides to anyone living in Leeds or Wakefeild along with anyone living in housing associations or working for selective employers. It aims to provide affordable loans at fair rates of interest to meet everyday needs and larger purchases, including their Handiloan Payday Loan.
Tel: 0113 242 3343
Provide free, confidential and impartial advice and campaigns on issues that effect peoples lives. They can help you locate the nearest places to get help along with talk to you via webchat.
They are available online from 8am to 7pm, Monday to Friday. It’s not available on public holidays.
Tel: 0113 223 4400
If you are struggling with addiction we have listed some organisations which can help you below:
A confidential alchohol and drug service in Leeds for adults, young people and families. It offers services such as prevention, early intervention and recovery support
Open from 9am – 5pm Mondays and Fridays and 9am-7pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Tel: 0113 887 2477
ACL is a network aiming to tackle addiction. It has a Christian ethos and all its projects revolve around moving vulnerable people towards a state of abstinence.
The projects involved include Spacious Places, Joanna Project, St George’s Crypt, The Lighthouse and Life for the World Trust. It is chaired by Unity in Poverty Action.
As of currently there is no website available for ACL, below is the link for their social media account to find out more:
If you dont have Twitter you can contact them directly for support via e-mail:
davepaterson.upa@gmail.com
The Joanna Project is based in Leeds and aims to give women holistic and ongoing support to help them move towards a safe life free of prostitution and drug addiction.
It has both evening and daytime support available.
Tel: 0113 350 8071
A Christian rehab for people struggling with addiction. It has a mobile outreach both in and around Leeds and can also be reached via their website.
It is open from Mon to Fri, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Tel: 01132424644
E-mail: teenchallengeleeds@webip.co.uk
If you struggle with learning due to negative experiences or need help improving your language skills then we have listed a variety of learning organisations to help you:
Provides training and education to adult learners who may have had past negative experiences or left education prematurely.
Tel: 0113 262 7171
E-mail: mayarthurton@hotmail.com
A centure for lifelong learning, community projects and family learning sessions. The main aim of this organisation is to encourage those who want to learn but don't feel comfortable in formal institutions. They work on a friendly, human scale, offering a confidential counselling service, on-site childcare and learning support.
Tel: 0113 243 2210
E-mail: info@swarthmore.org.uk
Enables speakers of different languages to learn English online, from Beginners to Advanced.
If you are in need of help with mental health for any reason, no matter how small, we have a list of organisations that can be of help to you:
MindWell is the mental health website for people in Leeds. Funded by NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group, it brings together information from the NHS in Leeds, Leeds City Council and the third sector into one single ‘go to’ place
Tel: 0113 305 5800
A confidential service that encourages those in need see seek help while connecting them to qualified UK counsellors. It contains information on the common reasons why people turn to counselling as well as various articles, news and events.
All counsellors have the correct qualifications and insurance cover.
Tel: 0333 325 2500
The organisation supports people with mental health problems, providing various resources throughout Leeds including: wellbeing, 1:1 work, befriending, counselling, peer support, employment support and housing.
Its opening hours are Monday – Thursday 9am – 5pm; Friday 9am – 4pm.
Touchstone provides a range of services that improve health and wellbeing. These include: Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) Carers Service, BME Dementia Services, Community Support Team, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Personality Disorder Managed Clinical Network, Positive care Programme, Self-Directed Support & Individual Budgets, Service User Involvement, Social Prescribing, workplace wellbeing and WY-FI supporting people with multiple needs amongst many others.
Below we have listed some of the best places to recieve healthcare in the city of Leeds. Please click the links below to find out more:
This link will take you to a list of all the hospitals in Leeds.
We provide a range of community services for adults and children including community nursing, health visiting, physiotherapy, community dentistry, primary care mental health, smoking cessation and sexual health services. Read more in Leeds Communicy Healthcare Trust.
Offers services to those who are homeless in in unstable accomodation.
Provides excellent quality mental health and learning disability care that supports people to achieve the very best that they can for their health and wellbeing.