Awards

Award winning community development work from Touchstone's Kimberley Saggu

We are thrilled to announce that one of Touchstone’s Black and Minority Ethnic Community Development Workers, Kimberley Saggu, has won a Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust Award.  The annual Trust Awards offer staff and members the chance to recognise and celebrate the talented people working and volunteering for the Trust. Kimberley has worked tirelessly with colleague Laura Hadley from LYPFT’s forensic service to support people to establish effective links

2020-04-16T17:47:38+01:0011th September 2013|Awards, News|
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Community Development Team Named “Best Partner”

Touchstone’s Community Development Team were named “Best Partner” by Leeds Adult Social Care, in their Excellence Awards 2011.  Nafisa  Miraf and Samantha Powell  and Jon Beech were nominated for the award in recognition of their development of the Migrant Community Organiser Programme alongside Zobi Barok from Feel Good Factor and Pria Bhabra of Adult Social Care. The Migrant Community Organiser Programme has so far trained more than 23 community activists

2020-04-16T17:40:58+01:0029th September 2011|Awards, News, Partnership|
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NHS Leeds Health Stars Awards 2011

Touchstone was highly commended in the Mental Health and Wellbeing category at this year's Health Stars Awards for our work on the "Talking Our Language" training pack. Staff from the Community Development Service supported Chinese and Pakistani community activists to train peers about mental health.  Download and use the training manual.

2020-04-16T17:40:37+01:0014th September 2011|Awards, News|
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