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This links page will be continually updated. If you know of an organisation that may be useful to our visitors, please let us know via the 'contact us' page.

 

Social Care

Leeds City Council Adult Social Care - Adult Social Care helps all adults, including people who are vulnerable or who need extra support, to access flexible services tailored to their individual needs, to enable them to live as independently as possible.

Self directed support -  Leeds is developing our model of self directed support which will be introduced in 2009/10. Self directed support gives you more control and flexibility by changing the way in which assessments are made and support is provided. Self directed support enables you to choose the types of support you want to meet your needs, and have more control over how that support is received.

 

Health

NHS Leeds - Formerly 'Leeds PCT', NHS Leeds is responsible for ensuring that the people of Leeds have access to the health services they need, along with directly providing a wide range of community-based services across the city.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - The Trust provides acute hospital services for the population of Leeds and the surrounding area and acts as a regional centre for a number of specialist services such as cancer and cardiac surgery.

Women's Health Matters - "We believe that health is affected by many things and that emotional and mental well being, social issues and physical health are all equally important.   We believe that women are experts about their own health.   We work with women across Leeds, sharing in the diversity of our communities.  We aim to work particularly with women who do not usually make use of services".

 

Mental Health

Volition - Volition-Leeds is an alliance of voluntary sector organisations that either provide mental health services for or work with people who have mental health needs.

Touchstone - "Touchstone provides a range of innovative services that improve health and wellbeing."

 

LGBT links

Regard - the national organisation of disabled LGBT people.

Mesmac - Yorkshire MESMAC is one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country. Our historical focus is HIV prevention and sexual health promotion with Gay, Bisexual and men who have sex with men. Additionally our Community Development approach means that we are concerned with the wider Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health, social and equity agendas. We work with LGBT communities to tackle underlying causes of physical and mental ill health and to challenge those structures and systems that seek to exclude us from decision making.

GEMMA - a friendship network that aims to lessen the isolation of disabled lesbian and bisexual women.  They produce a quarterly newsletter and organise socials. The newsletter is available in standard print, large print, tape and braille. Membership is for disabled and non-disabled women aged 16 and above: email: gemmagroup [at] hotmail [dot] com

UNISON recognises the importance of its LGBT members and its responsibility for paying particular attention to our needs: that LGBT rights are trade union issues. UNISON's commitment to equality and to tackling discrimination is written into the union's rules. UNISON's support for LGBT rights has not come out of thin air. It is the consequence of many years of work and lobbying by our activists. Members meet as a self-organised group at branch, regional and national level.
 
Shout - "Yorkshire's Queer Paper"
 
 
 
LGBT BME links
 
DOST - support group for South Asian and Middle Eastern gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men.
HALIC - support group for Somali men who have sex with men.

The Safra Project - a resource project working on issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally.

Imaan - a social support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Muslims, their family friends and supporters and those questioning their sexuality or gender identity.

KISS - a social group made up of women who identify either as lesbian, bisexual or queer and are of South Asian, Middle Eastern or North African descent.

UKBlackout.com - includes national and international news and features information on culture, health, Africa, the Caribbean, gay, lesbian and transgender issues.
 
 
 
General and other links
 
Talking Point - Take part in Leeds City Council consultations
 
Equality and Human Rights Commission - "Our job is to promote equality and human rights, and to create a fairer Britain. We do this by providing advice and guidance, working to implement an effective legislative framework and raising awareness of your rights."
 
Leeds LINk -  "Local Involvement Networks are required by government legislation to bring local people, community groups and organisations together, with an aim to improve health and social care services in their local communities."