Being You Leeds provides group activities, training, and awareness sessions that strengthen community wellbeing across Leeds.
Across the city, Being You Leeds promotes positive wellbeing in three main ways:
- First, we offer groups and activities that focus on connection and well-being. These fun, welcoming sessions run seven days a week, including weekends, and are shaped by group members’ ideas. As a result, people can connect, share experiences, and build confidence together.
- In addition, we deliver training and awareness sessions for staff, volunteers, and members of the public. Through these interactive workshops, participants gain practical tools to support wellbeing in their communities.
- Finally, we challenge mental health stigma and discrimination in everything we do — through our Change The Narrative partnership and campaign, in our groups and through our training offer. Working together to Change The Narrative around mental health stigma in Leeds.
Being You Leeds is led by Touchstone in partnership with local third-sector organisations working together to promote positive wellbeing across the city.
Our partners include Touchstone (lead provider), Barca, Hamara, Health for All, Holbeck Together, LS14 Trust, Women’s Health Matters, Inspire North, and Humans Being.
Together, we combine our experience and community connections to make Leeds a more inclusive and mentally healthy place to live.
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Five Ways to Wellbeing
Everything Being You Leeds does links to the Five Ways to Wellbeing — simple, practical steps that help people feel better and stay well for longer:
Connect with others to reduce loneliness and build supportive relationships.
Learn new things to spark creativity and confidence.
Be active, whether that means taking a short walk or joining a group activity.
Give to others to recognise your own strengths and make a positive difference.
Take notice of your surroundings to stay present, feel grounded, and remain calm.
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