Health Improvement
Community Development

Being You Leeds

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Being you Leeds provides groups, activities and training and awareness sessions for community wellbeing across Leeds.

Who is the service for?

Being you Leeds provides groups, activities and training and awareness sessions for community wellbeing across Leeds.

Being You Leeds promotes positive wellbeing with people in Leeds in 3 ways:

  • Providing groups and activities focusing on wellbeing. These fun, welcoming groups run 7 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.

What we offer

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

Get in Touch

To find out more about Being You Leeds, please contact Jonathan Parker (Men's Health Community Engagement Worker) on 07927 587 088 or email: Jonathan.Parker@barca-leeds.org

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