Listen to our podcast featuring the TFS Wellbeing service to find out about the service and hear first hand how it made a difference to Tia, and her family, when they received support in 2013.
As the 2024-25 academic year comes to a close, our Schools Counselling team look back over the school year and all their dedicated work providing one to one counselling to 428 children and young people.
Mark struggled with addiction and homelessness for 35 years before finding support, he sadly passed away in March 2025. This film shares his story of resilience and overcoming the many adversities he faced.
Read Ashley's story on how the TFS Wellbeing Service supported her and her family to make lasting positive changes.
LGBTQIA+ workshops create a safe and confidential environment for young people to explore LGBTQIA+ role models, meet other members of the community and have experiences where they could expand their knowledge of LGBTQIA+ communities.
Read how the TFS Wellbeing Service supported Rosie and her mum to make positive changes with her mental health, school and friendships.
Supported by the Community Wellbeing Connectors service, Tony made positive changes to build his confidence and improve his mental health, which had been having a negative impact on his life for the past 6 years.
The Better Together team's co-produced cookbook featuring 12 low-cost, healthy recipes for cooking at home.
Following a lifetime of homelessness, Gerard was supported by the Street to Tenancy Navigators to move into a safe and stable home and begin making positive changes to his life. Read his journey of support.
Read Abbie's story on how tailored one to one support from Barca's Employment Support team helped her overcome the barriers she faced to find meaningful employment.
This story shares Florence's journey from experiencing isolation and low mood, to gaining confidence to join a local youth group and learning techniques to better manage her mental health and self-harm.
Pathways to Progress, a partnership of organisations across West Yorkshire, led by the Education Development Trust (EDT), supported economically inactive people across the region towards training or employment.
The Nxt Steps programme provided employment and training support to 474 young people, read more about the programme's impact.
Read how our Mentoring in Schools service supports young people to address and reduce the risk factors in their lives enabling them to lead healthier happier lives.
In this podcast episode, we invited Laura from Barca-Leeds and Philippa from Yorkshire Health Partners to share their journey's into Children and Young People's Social Prescribing and why they believe every young person should have access to one.
Barca-Leeds are proud to be a part of Project Shield, the city-wide partnership working to tackle serious youth violence. The partnership brings together West Yorkshire Police, the Youth Justice Service, Crimestoppers, Leeds City Council, Barca-Leeds and other youth providers.
Watch Ben's story of support from the Housing Navigators trauma-informed practice for people who have experienced homelessness
Read Tasha's story of support. Tasha was supported by Barca's Health and Wellbeing Navigators, who support people, who have faced a lot of adversity in their lives, to recover their health by helping them to access appropriate medical interventions.
Integrated support delivered by three Leeds organisations working alongside Local Care Partnerships and Primary Care Networks
Watch Alfie's story to see how access to a safe and stable home helped him to integrate back into the community after leaving prison
Set of resources and activities developed by our Connect To Grow service to support adults who self-identify as having experienced a childhood trauma.
After an unexpected relationship breakdown, Alan was supported by Linking Leeds to make new social networks, improve his mental wellbeing and explore employment opportunities. Read Alan's story of change.
Read about Reema's volunteer experience in our Better Together team delivering community health and wellbeing activities across West Leeds.
Watch Adam and Kerry's story of support from the Barca-Leeds Family Support Service who work with families to overcome barriers which prevent children, young people and their family members to achieve positive outcomes.
Read Rachel's story to find out how one to one support from a Youth Worker based at their school helped Rachel to improve her mental health, form new friendships and engage better with school.
As part of our Safe Schools project, we developed an Emotional Regulation toolkit that features information and activities designed to support young people to better understand their emotions, ways to manage their emotions positively and where they can go for further help and support.
The West Leeds Men’s Network ended and merged into the Being You Leeds service. Find out about the project's achievements creating a community space for men to come together, support each other and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
The Barca-Leeds Reclaim counselling service launched a mental health toolkit to help people manage and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Read about the impact of the Stronger Families programme that worked with 1,592 parents to provide tailored employability support through a Keyworker model with a whole family approach.
Independent evaluation by Leeds Beckett University highlights the achievements of Connect Together in delivering a high-quality social prescribing service.
The Work Well programme supported 536 young people between July 2021 to June 2023, supporting them to achieve their aspirations with work or training.
