Stay Well This Winter 2025

We’ve awarded £57,000 to 20 Leeds community organisations to help people stay well over the colder months. 

Thanks to Stay Well this Winter grants, our partnership with Leeds City Council Public Health, they’ll help those most at risk of becoming unwell over the season. They’ll provide a range of activities and support to help people stay warm, healthy and connected. 

The organisations that were awarded funding are:   

• • • Basis Yorkshire 

• • • Burmantofts Community Friends 

• • • Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London 

• • • Dial Leeds Ltd 

• • • Feel Good Factor 

• • • Flourishing Families Leeds 

• • • Hamara Healthy Living Centre 

• • • Holbeck Together 

• • • Home-Start Leeds 

• • • Leeds Baby Bank 

• • • Leeds Irish Health and Homes 

• • • MHA Communities Rothwell & District 

• • • MHA Communities Horsforth 

• • • MHA Communities South Leeds 

• • • Middleton Elderly Aid 

• • • People in Action 

• • • Shantona Women and Family Centre 

• • • South Leeds Alternative Trading Enterprise Ltd (SLATE) 

• • • The Homeless Pastors CIC 

• • • West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network (WYDAN) 

 

The funded activities include:   

• • • Providing essential items, like coats, gloves, blankets and thermals 

• • • Providing hot food and drinks, and food hampers with cooking ingredients 

• • • Offering warm spaces and social activities, like wellbeing workshops and family fun days 

• • • Befriending and welfare checks, delivered in person, and by phone, text and social media 

• • • Support and advice for things like benefits, debt, utility bills and difficulty coping with essential living costs 

We’re proud to have worked with Leeds City Council Public Health on Stay Well this Winter for 15 years. In that time, we’ve made nearly 400 grants and awarded more than £1m, which has supported almost 32,000 local people through the colder weather.