Projects & Groups
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Crossgates Group
This group is run by volunteers supported by People in Action and based within East Leeds area .The group meets regularly to provide educational and recreational activities .
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Guiseley Group
The group resumed in September 2005 to work with
members to improve their social skills.
The Group has grown this year to 6 people.
Members have worked throughout the year to improve
their travel skills and their ability to join in Community life.
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Connexions Team
The team is made up of 3 Connexions Personal Advisers;
Glenn Richards, Chani Batebajwe and Inderpal Sagoo.
They work with young people (14 –25yrs) with
learning difficulties and disabilities. This is done on a one
to one basis; providing advocacy, holistic support on personal
issues and signposting them to activities and organisations based
on their needs.
The young people also have a chance to take part
in person centred planning with the help of the Personal Advisers.
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Count Me In
This project started at the end of 2005.
It employs 3 Support Workers to work with a person
with high support needs on a 2 to 1 basis and enables him to become
involved in his local community.
This is a new area of work for People In Action
and is funded by the Joint Commissioning Service.
This is an area of work we hope to develop further
in the near future.
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Drive Steering Group
DRIVE is the People in Action Steering Group In
Chapeltown.
It is made up of people with learning difficulties
and disabilities and supporters from the local community.
The DRIVE co-chairs are Chris Garvey and Frank Barrington.
In April 2005 DRIVE updated plans for our work in
Chapeltown. We are trying to get funding for a multicultural resource
centre.
Following an enjoyable ‘Love in Action’
event with music, food and speed dating, we are in the early stages
of setting up a dating agency (in partnership with HFT and MESMAC).
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Gateway Clubs
The 11 Clubs, located citywide, provide members
and volunteers with social and leisure activities mainly in the
evenings.
Work has been undertaken to support the clubs in
making funding bids and producing
constitutions.
Staff have worked hard in the clubs to provide a
range of activities.
The following are just a few examples: -
Venture Gateway at St Mary’s –
continues to work with people with profound learning disabilities.
One striking feature of the activities they have
put on during the year is the use of themes which allow members
to dress up or experience other ways of living, such as Irish,
Chinese and James Bond nights.
Gascoigne Middleton Club –
produced a range of activities including weekends away, discos,
music games and cooking lessons.
Crossgates/ Seacroft Gateway –
continued to open all year round and we are particularly grateful
to Mary Booths for her organisation and committed input.
Pudsey Gateway – continues
to excel in sports and won a number of medals at the disabled
Olympics and still attracts a large number of members.
Guiseley Gateway – have worked
with the Management Committee and supported them in reviewing
and putting together new procedures and a Constitution (rules).
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Gardening Project
The Gardening group commenced in September with
funding from The Community Chest.
The project works with members from the Ramshead
Wood Training Centre to improve their gardening skills.
They have a plot of land at East Leeds Family Learning
Centre and have started to grow many things, including potatoes,
onion sets and a variety of plants.
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Mini Groups - Woodhouse
and Bramley
The groups are made up of 3 members in Woodhouse
and 7 in Bramley.
They meet with People In Action volunteers and organise
a range of activities throughout local and city centre venues.
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Walking Group
People with a mixed range of walking abilities who
meet every 2 weeks on Sundays. They meet rain or shine to visit
local attractions, keep fit and take in the sight on their varied
walking routes.
Picnics at Ilkley and Hebden Bridge have been just
a few highlights of the group.
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Changing Lives
The project has 3 groups, whose membership is made
up of a diverse group of men and women. Outside funding for the
project has run out during the year, but People In Action has
supported the project to carry on.
Due to lack of funding the 3 groups only meet every
two weeks and undertake joint activities.
The activities are decided on by a Steering Group,
which has 5 members. The groups enjoy activities such as bowling,
going to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, eating out and attending
the ‘Beautiful Octopus’ events.
They meet on Thursday evenings in the city centre.
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Umeed Carers Group
The aim of the project is to involve carers of people
with learning disabilities, at present mainly from South Asian
communities, and help develop their skills through training and
empower them to become an inclusive group.
The group has been taking part in activities, such
as swimming, health and fitness events (left, Umeed at a Yorkshire
Food Event) and attending training courses, for example a ‘Training
for Trainers’ course.
A new group has also been set up, which is specially
aimed at male carers from the South Asian communities.
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Young Roots Carnival Project
The Young Roots carnival project started in May
2005. We started off with a small group of young people, Hughbon
and Gloria Condor were the costume designers. The young people
decided they would choose a traditional costume design, as the
project theme was Carnival Heritage.
We had a mixture of different cultures attending the project.
The costume preparation carried on throughout the project till
the day of Carnival parade.Carnival day was a success and some
of our older members joined in the carnival troupe along with
young people and volunteers. Workshops on dance, music and the
history of Carnival continued after August Bank holiday.
The project ended with a celebration at Christmas
and a display of costumes and the work done by the young people.
The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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