What's on at the centre

Current Groups

Parents & Tots Tuesdays 12:30-2pm

Relax & Be Well Wednesdays 1-3pm

Spanish for Beginners Wednesdays 2-3pm

SEVA Breakfast & Lunch Club - Tues & Wed 10-12 & 12-2pm

Woodhouse Yarn Sewing Club - Wednesdays 12:30-2:30pm

ESOL - Thursdays 10:30-11:30am

International Language Exchange - Thurs 11:45am

Headspace group - (Currently recruiting for the next group) Planned for May/June

Dance with Lisa Thursdays 12-1pm (On hold)

Mindful Cooking Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm

Community Cookbook Thursdays 2-3pm

April 2023

Community Iftar Fundraiser - April 7th 6-9pm

Fresh Air Mindfulness - Healing Walk/Meditation Saturdays April 18th 10:30am - 12pm

Kozy Kraft's is on Tuesdays - Returning April 26th for 12 weeks

June 2023

Digital Media Workshop - Thursday 2:30-3:30pm from June 1st

Sisters Circle (Support Group) - Tuesdays 2-3:30pm from June 6th

Community Champions Leeds is a new 6 month project working with local migrant communities, to lead on positive health and wellbeing messaging by running groups and activities that will promote:

Improved health and wellbeing
Better self-manage long term conditions
Support the long covid pathway
Increased access to health and care
Reducing health inequalities

For more information please email: Milly@oblongleeds.org.uk and look out for this logo and groups you can be a part of.

Dance with Lisa - Come and move and release some stress!! Coming soon.

Kosy Krafts

From APRIL 26th Wednesdays 10 am - 12 pm (Free group)

Get Kosy, creative & make great conversation.

Email: milly@oblongleeds.org.uk to register

Reception Volunteering

We're looking for people to join our reception team, giving 4hrs per week to help out on reception. Greeting visitors, handling calls, helping with simple queries.

We can provide training, bus ticket vouchers and a reference relevant to the work you're doing - if you're looking to gain experience in admin work, reception volunteering could be very useful to you.

You'll need good communication skills and an understanding of the importance of treating all our visitors with care and dignity.

If you're interested, sign up using this form.

NEW GROUPS... join us!

Thriving Together Volunteering

Thriving Together is a new project supporting local people to start their own groups and projects for other local people in Little London, Woodhouse & Hydepark.
More info available here.

If you are living within Woodhouse, Hyde Park or Little London and want to volunteer - we would love to hear from you.

Email Thrivingtogether@oblongleeds.org.uk

or Call 0113 2459610 and ask to speak to Milly or Cam.

ESOL English for speakers of other Languages - Conversation Cafe

Thursdays 1030-1130.
All levels welcome to our ESOL conversation cafe! Come along and practice your English, have a cup of tea and make new friends.

More info: lily@oblong.org.uk

Headspace

7 week Peer-Support Mental Health & Wellbeing Course Online and Face-to-Face

Currently recruiting for the next group around May/June start, usually 10.30am-12.30pm Face-to-Face at Woodhouse Community Centre

Or on Zoom dates to be confirmed

The 7 weeks include...

Stress and Relaxation

Connection and Isolation

Resilience

Relationships

Self-Care and wellbeing

Spaces are limited.

Please contact Lucy@oblongleeds.org.uk 0113 2459610

WOODHOUSE LUNCH CLUB

Tuesdays & Wednesdays 12 noon - 2pm

A 'Pay What You Can' restaurant run by local people, for local people to come together & eat together.

IT Suite

Open Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm

Excluding bank holidays

We have PCs, printer, scanner and photocopier.

Leeds Community Clothing Exchange

Refresh your wardrobe and recycle your clothes! Bring up to 20 items of
unwanted clothes to swap.

Next events: Saturday October 28th January 2023 and every 4th Saturday after that.

Leeds Zen Group

Zazen is silent, seated, objectless meditation. Contact John on 07946 476471 to find out more.
First session is free, then £5 / £3 per session.

Monday 19.00 - 20.30, Thursday 18.30 - 20.00 & Saturday 9.00 - 10.30