Supporting the third sector
Supporting the third sector
Topic Mental Health
10-11 September | ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

Date: 10 and 11 September 2025 (2 day course) Time: 8.30 – 16.30 Location: TBC To teach Suicide First Aid skills to raise confidence and knowledge and to familiarise participants with the most widely used suicide intervention model in the…
19 – 25 May | Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2025

Creativity and Wellbeing Week is led by the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) and London Arts and Health. This year’s theme is ‘New Horizons’, encouraging curiosity and listening within the Creative Health sector. Creative and cultural activity can have a hugely…
Forum Central Annual Member Satisfaction Survey 2025

Forum Central is a member-led partnership between Volition and Leeds Older People’s Forum. Each year we invite our member organisations to share their thoughts to help us understand how we’re doing and how we can do even better. We’d love…
Thrive at Work: Free support for Health and Care staff across Leeds

Thrive at Work is a new support initiative for anyone working in health and care across Leeds, including staff in the NHS, social care, primary care and third sector organisations. Thrive at Work is designed to support people whose mental…
Call out for designers: Interactive Toolkit and Coproduced cript for Animation
Could you help make the SWEMWBS tool more user-friendly? Forum Central, in partnership with Leeds City Council Public Health invites quotes from creative digital designers for a project centred around the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS). The work involves…
17 April | West Yorkshire Power of Communities VCSE Session
Date: Thursday 17 April 2025 Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm Location: Online The West Yorkshire Power of Communities Programme Board have developed a series of sessions open to a wider set of VCSE representatives with direct experience in those…
Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board Survey

Help Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) learn more about your experience of working in safeguarding. Third sector organisations are invited to share their feedback in the LSAB survey. What is the focus of the survey? The survey has been developed…
Learning from 2 years of Transforming Mental Health Grants – The ‘Gold Dust’ Report

Supporting adults with complex mental health needs in our communities: what have we learnt? On 27 March 2025 Forum Central held a learning event to celebrate two years of the Transforming Mental Health Grants, launch the Gold Dust Report consolidating…
Trauma Informed Community Grants Programme Highlights

In 2022 to 2023 11 community organisations received funded to run activities which boost protective factors in children and young people and families. Watch an overview of the programme which summarises the ambition and organisations which were funded. Listen to…
Remembering What’s Forgotten featured on BBC Radio: Interview with Omari Swanston – Jeffers

Listen to the interview with #RWF’s poet in residence on Bruddahood. On Friday 14 March 2025, Omari Swanston – Jeffers was interviewed by Sile Sibanda on BBC Radio Sheffield about his Remembering What’s Forgotten poetry residency. You can hear the full…
