Lunch Clubs 2026

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 11th year, the programme supports the vital work of lunch clubs, food provision and ongoing support for older people in Leeds. 

This year, 87 Lunch Clubs were funded. They hope to support around 4,000 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 11 years. During this time, more than 900 grants have been made to community organisations running lunch clubs across the city.

• Aireborough Voluntary Services to the Elderly 
• Alkhidmat Centre 
• Armley Helping Hands Luncheon Club 
• Association of Blind Asians 
• BEA OWLS 
• BEAT – Belonging Empowering & Thriving 
• Beetey Din 
• BIEWA, to Belle Isle Senior Action 
• Brackenwood Community Association 
• Bramley Elderly Action 
• Burmantofts Community Friends 
• Chapel Allerton Town Street Lunch Club 
• Coffee Pot Memory Cafe 
• Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours Scheme 
• Hamwattan Centre 
• Headingley Methodist Luncheon Club 
• Holbeck Together 
• Kushy Nannas Womes Group 
• Leeds Black Elders Association 
• Leeds Irish Health and Homes 
• Leeds Kosher Kitchen CiC 
• Lychee Red 
• Manorfield Hall 
• MHA Communities Farsley 
• MHA Communities Horsforth 
• MHA Communities Pudsey 
• MHA Communities Rothwell & District 
• MHA Communities South Leeds 
• Moor Allerton Everyone Cares 
• Moorside Luncheon Club 
• Moortown Baptist Day Centre 
• Morley Elderly Action 
• Namaste 
• New Wortley Community Association 
• Next stop cafe 
• Oakwood Luncheon Club 
• Old Farnley & District Community Association 
• Older People’s Action in the Community 
• Otley Action for Older People 
• Polish Day Centre 
• Pudsey Community Project 
• Richmond Hill Elderly Action 
• Sawan Vihar 
• Seacroft Friends and Neighbours 
• Shantona Women and Family Centre 
• Silver Lining Luncheon Club 
• St Chad’s Lunch club 
• St John’s Methodist Lunch Club 
• Sumangal Luncheon Club 
• Swarcliffe Good Neighbours Scheme 
• The Conservation Volunteers 
• Trinity Network