Health & Wellbeing

A new initiative for schools that aims to support students' psychological wellbeing has been launched by Leeds psychologist, Charlotte Armitage. The YAFTA Project, founded by award-winning businesswoman, psychologist and psychotherapist, Charlotte Armitage hosts acting classes in schools with a focus on the development of psychological skills to support individual

By Lubna Khan-Salim Lubna is a surgeon, skin care expert and founder of timetobloom.uk Summertime brings long, lazy days with a gentler pace and more time spent outdoors. It can also bring changes to our skin. As our body’s largest organ and made of approximately 64% water, it

Three West Yorkshire-based charities have received nearly £50,000 from the Thriving Communities Fund to help people engage more with arts, nature and sporting activities, with a view to supporting health and wellbeing. Arts and social change organisation, Space2, will work with the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and Feel Good Factor,

Leeds City College has teamed up with Kinder Leeds to introduce wellbeing initiative, Kinder Colleges. The project aims to encourage students and staff to become champions of kindness by participating in wellbeing activities across the city. Centered around six key themes: Kinder to Self, Kinder Relationships, Kinder to the Planet,

This week, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 Five female entrepreneurs from varying backgrounds across the UK have come together to unite to bring a different take on the theme of this year’s awareness campaign - Nature - to show people the power of creating your own

A quarter of Leeds runners (25%) say running has been good for their mental health during the pandemic – with 21% saying they wouldn’t have been able to get through the last year without it. However, research by running specialists, Runners Need, shows that 10% of Leeds runners said they

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