On Saturday 7th October 2023 we took a group of 25 asylum seekers, 2 town councillors and volunteers from the city centre on a 5 km walk along the River Aire towpath to Thwaite Mills for a picnic. The route took us from the Corn Exchange via Brewery Wharf, the Royal Armouries Museum, Clarence Dock … Read more
Liz Thomas writes: In autumn 2022, we were lucky enough to receive funding from Community Champions to run a Healthy Eating Project at both our venues, The Holbeck and Mill Hill Chapel. The aims of the project were to share information about the benefits of eating healthy food and also to provide opportunities for practising … Read more
Margaret Cliff writes: a lovely spring day, Matt Trevelyan of Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) took us to Swinton (in the Ure valley) for a day of volunteering. Seven guests and two volunteers were picked up from Leeds and driven to Nutwith Common where we were joined by a small group from Pateley … Read more
Since early 2023 we have had a productive partnership with the Threadbear Theatre group, who specialise in improvisational drama workshops. Duncan Marwick visits us at Mill Hill Chapel every Thursday to do games and theatre exercises with any guests interested to join us. Some of the Conversation Club volunteers take part of the sessions and … Read more
On 31st August, 40 people from Conversation Club set off by train to the beautiful North Yorkshire town of Skipton, a place with a long history of farming and the wool industry. We visited the 900-year-old castle, had a picnic lunch in the castle grounds, wandered around the streets of old stone houses and went … Read more
Leeds Light Night is ‘an annual free multi-arts and light festival that takes over Leeds City Centre for two nights in October’. We made a photo-gallery with pictures of the displays and the guests enjoying themselves.
On 16th August 2021, several volunteers took a small group of guests, including some from our sister organisation LEDAS, to visit Fell Edge Farm, near Addingham in Wharfedale. Fell Edge was originally a typical Dales sheep farm, with pasture land divided into small fields by ancient stone walls. Now there is a converted barn – … Read more
Thank you to everyone who supported the ceilidh and helped us raise £1,000. We held the ceilidh at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Chapel Allerton. Bandiera Rossa provided the live music. If anyone has any ideas for future fundraising events, please get in touch.
Thank you to our 3 local choirs for a wonderful concert, and to everyone who came and enjoyed their singing. We managed to raise £800 for the Conversation Club. If anyone has any ideas for future fundraising events, please get in touch.
We had a lovely outing up to Malham with the help of People and the DALES, a project run by the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
