WHAT WE DO

Your Back Yard
Your Back Yard

What We Do

We work with communities across West Yorkshire and beyond to support healthy lifestyles, and improve community facilities.

Your Back Yard

(The first match of our West Leeds Women's Walking Football Team vs Holbeck Ladies Team)

Our Aims

  1. Improving community facilities

  2. Supporting healthy lifestyles

  3. Increasing life chances

Why? Because we believe everyone deserves to live in an area thay can feel proud of, and that provides ample opportunities to live a happy and healthy life.

Your Back Yard

(Sydney helping out at our Digital support session)

Our Responsibility

  1. Provide a range of sports and other activities targeted at older adults, including walking football, walking netball and tai chi

  2. Work with schools to get younger people (and their parents!) more active

  3. Support people/older adults to get online

  4. Provide exercise classes online

  5. Help community groups get funding to improve their facilties (e.g. parks, play areas, community buildings)

  6. Help communitities do action plans to make their areas even better places to live

And anything else that will help us achieve our/your goals!

We are funded mainly through grants, with some contracted work. We have just enough funding to give anyone some taster sessions, or advice or a bit of support, for nowt (as they say in Yorkshire!)..so do get in touch.

Your Back Yard

(Victoria helping Janet at Joan at our OWLS Digital Cafe learn how to take selfies!)

HOW TO FIND US

Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)

Bennett Road

Headingley

Leeds

LS6 3HN

Telephone: 0113 229 0260

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