Lunch Clubs 2025
28 October 2025
Leeds Community Foundation works in partnership with Leeds City Council’s Public Health team on the Lunch Clubs programme. Established in 2016 and now in its 10th year, the programme supports the vital work of lunch clubs, food provision and ongoing support for older people in Leeds.
This year, 91 Lunch Clubs were funded and they’re expected to support around 6,000 older people across Leeds. The organisations that were awarded funding are below. Some organisations were awarded funding for more than one Lunch Club.
Each of these Lunch Clubs will support older people in their communities, providing hot midday meals and, in some cases, additional wellbeing and social activities, for their members. These activities will help to improve nutrition and reduce loneliness.
Leeds Community Foundation is proud to have worked with Leeds City Council’s Public Health team to support local lunch clubs through this programme over the past 10 years. During this time, more than 810 grants have been made to community organisations running lunch clubs across the city.
Read about the impact of last year’s lunch clubs here.
Funded organisations
| Age UK Leeds | MHA Communities Pudsey |
| Aireborough Voluntary Services to the Elderly (AVSED) | MHA Communities South Leeds |
| Al-Khidmat Centre | Middleton Elderly Aid |
| Armley Helping Hands | Moor Allerton Elderly Care |
| Association of Blind Asians | Moorside Tara Community Centre |
| Beetey Din | Moortown Baptist Day Centre |
| BIEWA, to Belle Isle Senior Action – BISA | Morley Elderly Action |
| Brackenwood Community Association | Namaste |
| Bramley Elderly Action | New Wortley Community Association |
| Burmantofts Community Friends | Next Stop Cafe |
| Chapel Allerton Town Street Lunch Club | North Kirklees & Morley Circuit |
| Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours’ Scheme | Oakwood Luncheon Club |
| The Old Fire Station | Old Farnley & District Community Association |
| Hamara Healthy Living Centre | Older People’s Action in the Community (OPAL) |
| Hamwattan Centre | Older Wiser Local Seniors (OWLS) |
| Headingley Methodist Luncheon Club | Otley Action for Older People |
| Holbeck Together | Pudsey Community Project |
| HOPS – Hawksworth Older People’s Services | Richmond Hill Elderly Action |
| Involve | Sawan Vihar |
| Leeds Black Elders Association | Seacroft Friends and Neighbours |
| Leeds Irish Health and Homes | Silver Lining Luncheon Club |
| Leeds Kosher Kitchen CiC | South Leeds Team Ministry Charity Limited |
| Leeds West Hunslet Salvation Army Lunch Club | St Chad’s Lunch club |
| Lingfields Living Local | St John’s Methodist Lunch Club |
| Lychee Red | Sumangal Group |
| MHA Communities – Rothwell & District | Swarcliffe Good Neighbours Scheme |
| MHA Communities Farsley | The Conservation Volunteers |
| MHA Communities Horsforth | Wetherby In Support of the Elderly |