Health & Wellbeing

Founded by Yorkshire Businesswomen member, Ros Jones Speaking Out: Domestic Abuse and the Workplace is a one-day event being held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on 11th October. Despite one in three women and one in nine men experiencing abuse, within the workplace it’s an issue that many

Encouraging families to donate to local food banks this Harvest Festival season As the nights draw in and the weather turns cold, it is inevitable that we start thinking about preparing for winter months. With costs rising and finances feeling tighter than we'd like, our local community groups

In this week’s podcast, food writer, author and award-winning entrepreneur Freda Shafi talks about her work raising awareness of menopause, and recording the experiences in the Pakistani community in West Yorkshire. Freda shares her own menopause story, and she and Dr Louise discuss key barriers women face accessing care,

A Leeds mum with stage 4 EGFR positive lung cancer will join more than 40 people – including eight with the same prognosis – up Scafell Pike, England’s highest peak, on 23 September to increase awareness of non-smoking lung cancer and raise funds to support patients affected by the disease. 49-year-old

A new swimming pool part-owned by Olympic legend Becky Adlington OBE is set to make a splash at Xscape Yorkshire. Around 2,000 new swimming lesson slots will be created at the state-of-the-art swim! centre with around 70% already snapped up by local families. A seven-figure sum is being invested

From ‘A day in the life of the Major Trauma Unit’ to ‘A journey through liver transplantation’ a new four-part podcast series, Vital Signs, captures the daily lives of the incredible people and services in at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Following on the back of the BBC television series Saving Lives

Leeds laser expert Saffron Biggs began her career in business and marketing with a goal of working within the retail space, but it was whilst studying at university in her early twenties that she booked her first laser hair removal treatment, being dark haired herself, and quickly shifted her corporate