Healthy Communities Together is a group of organisations who work with asylum seekers (Leeds Asylum Seeker Support Network), Gypsies and Travellers (Leeds GATE), sex workers (Basis Yorkshire), and Trans people (Yorkshire MESMAC), Leeds City Council and health (Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group) who also have a responsibility to all of these groups. We know that … Continue reading Improving health outcomes for people from marginalised communities – job vacancies available now via MESMAC »
On Monday 9th May we had our third Leeds Women’s Homelessness and Housing Frontline Network meeting and it was an incredible turn out of practitioners and front-line workers from all over Leeds! We had some brilliant discussions, and it was so wonderful to come away with key practical changes to make in the work we … Continue reading Front Line Network Meeting #3 »
On Monday 14th February we had our second Leeds Women’s Homelessness and Housing Frontline Network meeting and we were over the moon to see so many frontline practitioners from across Leeds come along for the session! What went on? We were lucky to have Lucy from Fulfilling Lives Islington and Camden (FLIC) come along and … Continue reading Leeds Women’s Homelessness and Housing Frontline Network: Meeting #2 »
Times are tough for a lot of people at the moment so we hope this story cheers you up before Christmas….. What seems like a life time ago, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, Grace Sumner set her mind to a phenomenal thing: to fundraise for a proper van for outreach; our current one … Continue reading We finally got the van! »
As 2021 draws to a close we wanted to take the time to reflect on our year here at Basis. It’s been another difficult year facing a lot of uncertainty with the ever changing Covid restrictions, and we’re incredibly proud of the way our team has dealt with this year. In light of this, we … Continue reading A Year at Basis: 2021 »
