Health Improvement
Community Development

Being You Leeds

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Groups, activities and training and awareness sessions to improve community wellbeing across Leeds.

Who is the service for?

Anyone aged 16 and over in Leeds. Please visit the MindWell website to see our current activities and groups.

Being You Leeds promotes positive wellbeing with people in Leeds in three ways:

  • Providing groups and activities focusing on wellbeing. These fun, welcoming groups run seven days a week, including weekends, and are based around activities chosen by group members.
  • Providing training and awareness raising sessions to staff and volunteers working in community organisations and to members of the general public in Leeds.
  • Tackling Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination, through all of our activities and training, campaigns and with a strategic partnership.

Groups and activities

Being You Leeds run groups and activities 7 days a week, including on evenings and weekends in local venues across Leeds.

To find out more about our groups, visit our main page on the MindWell website.

Training and awareness-raising

Being You Leeds run mental health training to help educate others on mental health and how to best support people struggling with their mental health.

Visit our main page on the MindWell website for more information about our training.

Anti-stigma work

At Being You Leeds we are positive about mental health and we challenge discrimination and stigma around mental health through our anti-stigma work.

Please visit our main page on the MindWell website to find out more about our work on anti-stigma.

"Had some ups and downs since my wife passed but had some good laughs at the music group, it’s done me a world of good mental wise, thanks pal for being there."

- Being You Leeds Group Member

Get in Touch

To find out more about Being You Leeds, please contact Jonathan Parker (Men's Health Community Engagement Worker) on 07484 515527 or email: Jonathan.Parker@barca-leeds.org

Supported by

A partnership of third sector organisations run Being You Leeds. This partnership is made up of: Touchstone, Barca, Hamara, Health for All, Holbeck Together, LS14 Trust, Women’s Health Matters, Community Links and Humans Being.

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