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VCSE Power showcase - Day 1: Our unique selling point, reaching marginalised communities

Today we celebrate how relationships based on trust enable the VCSE sector to engage with many of our most marginalised communities. These communities consistently experience poorer health outcomes because of multiple factors such as poverty, disability and language.

Evidence repeatedly shows that locally based organisations are an effective bridge to our most vulnerable groups and can act as a mechanism to amplify their voices and to support their engagement in mainstream services.

This page features examples from across West Yorkshire. Today's Place focus is on Bradford District and Craven.

Enjoy exploring and be inspired!

To get involved on social media, follow and use the #VCSEpower hashtag on Twitter during the week.

Bradford District and Craven

Video description: Hale in lockdown

Video description: Ilkley Mannor House quilting

Video description: LGBTQ Cellar Trust and Mind

 

Modality Health Pilots

Addressing health inequalities - Creating health in our communities November & December Pilot events (pdf)

Calderdale

REALTIMETALK … Covid film project

Filmmaker and photographer Geoff Brokate weaves together four compelling short films made in 2020 exploring issues affecting young people. Commissioned by Calderdale MBC Open Minds and created by filmmaker Geoff Brokate + verd de gris arts

https://www.verddegris.org/project/realtimetalk/

Artworks

Case Study: Artworks for Wellbeing Peer Group, Winter Pressures Funding (pdf)

Artworks for Wellbeing Peer Group - drawing by Mike

Kirklees

Community Learning

Encouraging people who are furthest from formal education and or employment to try new structured community activities that will support their health, wellbeing and learning.

Video description: Unleashed Mondays @ Roberttown Community Centre Ready2Learn Case Study

Video description: MAMA Unleashed @ Fieldhead Community Centre Wellbeing Fund Case Study

 

Community Learning Works (previous project) - https://tslkirklees.org.uk/get-help-with/supporting-communities/community-learning/

TSL Kirklees Year End Infographics 20-21 – summary of our work & impact:

https://tslkirklees.org.uk/about-us/

https://tslkirklees.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Infographic-Summary-2020-21.pdf

Leeds

Video description: Life in Lockdown – Barca Leeds set up a West Leeds Men’s Network, working with socially isolated men at risk of suicide, building trust and providing support.

Video description: Leeds Shielding Programme - a diverse range of health, care and third sector partners and the complex pandemic partnership that emerged due to our need to work at both scale and pace.

Video description: Lippypeople - Stories of Stroke: Ray's story

Video description: Lippypeople - Stories of Cancer: Kevin's story

Video description: Touchstone Support - Voices Against Stigma

Video description: Forum Central - Together Leeds

 

More about Forum Central's "Together Leeds" video

Working with Leeds based poet Michelle Scally Clarke, Forum Central produced a poem and film drawing on information collected through the Communities of Interest Network. The poem communicates the challenges experienced by Leeds’ people and communities during the pandemic, and also the incredible response of the VCSE.

Men’s Health Unlocked played a key role in linking Touchstone to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and they will be closely involved in the project, at least in the Leeds area and in linking the project to other NHS agencies.

Battle Scars

This video is designed to both raise  awareness of self-harm and promote Battle Scars weekly 16-25s peer support group in Leeds. 

Even though there is no graphic content, some viewers may find this upsetting.

 

Leeds Mind

Impact report (pdf)

 

Leeds GATE

The lives of Gypsies and Travellers in West Yorkshire (pdf)

Leeds GATE: The lives of Gypsies and Travellers in West Yorkshire - report front coverLeeds Gypsy & Traveller Exchange, known more commonly as Leeds GATE, is a vibrant and brave grassroots organisation led by Gypsy and Traveller people in partnership with others in and across West Yorkshire.

Our aim is to improve the quality of life for Gypsies and Travellers through improving access to homes, health, education, employment, and inclusion in society.

Originally founded by community members in 2003, Leeds GATE tackles these issues across West Yorkshire. We also advocate for the community at a national level through partnerships, capacity building and systemic work.

Ultimately, our vision is a world in which all Gypsies and Travellers have the opportunity to thrive and make choices as equal, valued and respected members of society. 

 

Digital Health Hubs

A place-based approach to digital inclusion for improved health outcomes (pdf)

LS14 Trust

In this podcast, Graham Hyde from the Local Care Partnership Development Team talks to Chris Jackson from LS14 Trust about community building, COVID response, empowering people, a refurbished home for the organisation and free ice cream. A passionate and engaging conversation with someone working right at the heart of the community in Seacroft, Killingbeck, Swarcliffe and Whinmoor.

http://www.ls14trust.org

Wakefield

Video description: Dream Time provides safe, creative spaces for women to reconnect and grow together.

Video description: Think Cre8tive Group CIC provides music for health as a clinical intervention in different types of settings. As a social enterprise, we use grant funding to take live music into venues where music has been shown to make a real difference.

 

Spectrum People

 

Bring Me To Life CIC logoBring Me To Life CIC

https://bringmetolife.co.uk/

Bring Me To Life CIC are a female-led, not-for-profit organisation, specifically focusing on women’s wellbeing and the challenges presented by the gender gap women face in accessing a good standard of personalised care for their overall health and wellbeing. Bring Me To Life Women’s Wellness CIC seeks to ‘plug’ the gender-gap within local services in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, by making various different methods, therapies and opportunities, centred around wellness, available to all women from all walks of life, in order to support their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Our Partners

Bradford Council: Home
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Kirklees Council
Leeds City Council
North Yorkshire Council
Wakefield Council
Airedale Foundation Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Yorkshire Ambulance Service
NHS England
Healthwatch
Locala Community Partnerships CIC
Spectrum Community Health CIC
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