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Financial Exclusion and the Leeds Child Poverty Strategy - Book a place on the next Third Sector Leeds workshop on Monday 29 April

Featured Funding Opportunity

ESF Community Grants

The ESF Community Grants Programme for West Yorkshire is now open!

Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available for small and voluntary organisations to deliver projects for unemployed people, helping them to remove barriers to employment and progress into education, training or jobs. Groundwork will be managing the grant fund on behalf of the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

For further information about the grant and criteria please see the briefing here.

You can also find out more via their website www.groundwork.org.uk/esfcommunitygrants

If you have any queries, do not hesitate tocontact Groundwork at ESF.Grants@groundwork.org.uk or via telephone on 0121 236 8565.

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Events

Third Sector Leeds Goes Local - Financial Exclusion & Child Poverty: A Local Perspective
29 April | 10.00am - 12.30pm
Hamara Centre, Tempest Road, LS11 6RD
Hear from the Council’s Financial Inclusion Team about the work they do to help deal with money pressures and the Children, Families and Education department about how they want to bring the city together to combat child poverty.

The Great Outdoors 50+ Woodwork and Gardening Taster Session
29 April | 5.45pm - 7.00pm
TCV Hollybush Conservation Centre, Broad Lane, Kirkstall, LS5 3BP
This taster session aims to produce a wooden planter and sow seasonal produce providing a taste of the activities on offer at Hollybush Conservation Centre.

Want to make our city welcoming? Come and find out how.
29 April | 5.45pm - 7.00pm
Oak House
Park Lane, Leeds. LS3 1EL
Are you interested or just curious about making our city welcoming for refugees and asylum seekers? Come to this session and find out how you can be part of that welcome.

Training

FREE COURSE - Bike Maintenance – Beginners (Half Day Course)
02 May 2019
Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) and Volunteers
09 May 2019
Public Speaking Course
16 May 2019
Building a Healthy Mindset
16 May 2019
Understanding Leadership
16 May 2019
FREE COURSE - Bike Maintenance – Advanced (full day course)
16 May 2019

FREE COURSE - Commissioning – Bidding for Contracts

16 May 2019

Health and Safety Level 2
20 May 2019
Getting Started on Social Media
21 May 2019

Volunteering

Yorkie - Match Day Support
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation
Retail Shop Assistant
Youth Movement Against Violence
Helpline Volunteer
Support and Care After Road Death and Injury
Prisoner/Family Support Volunteers
West Yorkshire Community Chaplaincy Project (WYCCP)
Volunteer Befriender
Touchstone, Leeds
Café Volunteer
Toast Love Coffee
Exhibition Production Volunteer
The Tetley
Hospice Patient Support
Wakefield Hospice

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Money Advice Worker
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Senior Practitioner
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Project worker x 2
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Family Health and Wellbeing Project Worker
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