Ideas that Change Lives Autumn 2022

The Ideas that Change Lives programme offers business guidance and financial investment to help organisations and individuals develop socially enterprising ideas. Run in partnership with Leeds City Council and SEE Ahead, the programme supports ideas that help people in Leeds with care and support needs to improve their health and wellbeing and remain independent.  

In the autumn of 2022, the latest round of the programme invested over £35,000 in 6 Community Organisations to develop their socially enterprising ideas.  

The organisations that were awarded funding are:  

• • • • Friends of Dorothy 

• • • • Karma Dance (Mental Health & Trauma) CIC 
      • Leeds Wood Recycling 
      • North & West Yorkshire ASBAH 
      • The Wren Bakery 
      • Wellspring Therapy & Training  

The funded activities include:  

• • • • Piloting a model of offering counselling at satellite centres, in order to meet increasing demand for mental health support. 
      • Employing a Support Worker to assist people with learning disabilities and difficulties to gain woodworking skills. 
      • Designing and implementing a feasibility study to evaluate a new project which would provide social opportunities and support for LGBTQ+ people. 

Throughout the period of their grants, organisations will receive specialist advice from experienced social enterprise professionals at See Ahead to support them with developing their business ideas and work towards sustainability.  

For more information on grants awarded, visit the What We’ve Funded page.