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Befriending services

A time to say thank you: Kirklees Volunteers Week 2021

Have you recently got involved in making a difference in your community?

Recipes From Home cook book supporting the community

How can more people come together to make local places better?

The Great Winter Get Together – helping each other tackle loneliness

Being a carer in lockdown – what you can and can’t do

Wellness Service – helping people live healthier, happier lives

Auntie Pam’s – support is still available for mums-to-be

Befriending Partnership – Can you help?

Your Health and Wellbeing – find support for you or someone you know

Free online learning opportunities

The Covid Quilt Project – a stitch in time

Art-based Wellbeing sessions online

Cooking up ideas in the Colne Valley – recipe book

Works Better – get help to find work

Grief and Loss Support Service

Getting help when your circumstances change

The Welcome Centre – help with food and more

We haven’t beaten the virus… yet

West Yorkshire Police Community Alert

Yes You Can 2020

Share an object that can tell a story about Covid-19

“I need help to stop” – a helpline for perpetrators of domestic abuse

Kirklees Windrush Day 2020: e-resource pack

Be part of the Great Get Together 2020

Loneliness Awareness Week (15th to 19th June)

Make It Click – improve your online digital skills

Get healthy & budget better with Fusion Learning online

Growing Great Places – community crowdfunding

Creative Minds – great projects to engage with during lockdown and beyond

Online self-confidence courses with Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre

Supporting people who have visual impairments

Reading collections to support wellbeing

How the Befriending Partnership are connecting people during lockdown and beyond

How Platform 1 are supporting people – and how you can help

SHARE Checklist – be careful what you share

Covid-19 bereavement support

Wellbeing resources from S2R

Freephone Covid-19 Community Response helpline

Community Skill Centre – by phone and online

Do Something Now – Covid-19 Response fund

Kirklees Citizens Advice & Law Centre

Doorstep scammers video

Covid Mutual Aid

How to request support or offer support

Other useful links

Coronavirus key advice

Kirklees Council advice

Government advice

NHS advice

Community languages and accessible formats
Kirklees Covid-19 Community Response in community languages – #kirkleeswelcomes
Latest NHS guidance translated into 36 languages (Doctors of the World)
Stay at home guidance, including community languages and easy read (Government)
Information for BAME Dementia families about how to stay safe and healthy (Meri Yaadain)

Domestic abuse
Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership
Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership  – guide to services (PDF)

Employment advice, training  and learning
Hopeful Families – Yorkshire Children’s Centre (PDF)
Step by Step (Paddock Community Trust)
Step by Step contacts during Covid-19 (PDF)
Works Better – Adult and community learning goes online

Fact checking 
How you can fact check claims about the new coronavirus (Full Fact)
Share Checklist – Be careful what you share (Government)

Homelessness – support for people at risk of homelessness
Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership

Scams and fraud
Coronavirus news alert from West Yorkshire Trading Standards, July 2020
Coronavirus news alert from West Yorkshire Trading Standards, May 2020
Coronavirus news alert from West Yorkshire Trading Standards, April 2020
Age UK – Getting help with nuisance and scam calls