This month is National Walking Month! Walking can be a great way to boost our mental health and connect with other people in our communities. To celebrate this month and shout about the amazing power of walking, we are a shining a spotlight on our Active Travel Project, which runs friendly, accessible walking groups across Leeds and Yorkshire. If you would like to get walking, read on to learn
We know many people we work with across Yorkshire and beyond will have been affected by the news from the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. At Touchstone, we fully support all trans and gender nonconforming communities and are thinking of everyone feeling the impacts of this news. As a mental health and wellbeing charity, we understand that many trans people will be feeling the mental health impacts of this
April marks Stress Awareness Month, an important date in the Touchstone Calendar! Stress can impact us all in different ways – and we all need different things to help us through it. Whatever level or kind of stress you’re experiencing, whether you’re looking for a group to help boost your mood or same-day support for when you’re struggling to cope, Touchstone is here for you. All of our support
A big hello from our Touchstone services in Wakefield! We wanted to let you know about some of the support we offer in the Wakefield area here at Touchstone and how our services work together to make sure people in Wakefield can access the best support possible... The support we offer in Wakefield There are three Touchstone services in the Wakefield district covering Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley, Normanton, and Wakefield.
At Touchstone, we want everyone to be able to thrive as their authentic selves at work! This #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, we are keen to share resources on how we can all make our workplaces safer and more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues. In 2024, we worked with West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership to create a Neurodiversity in the Workplace toolkit. This toolkit is full of resources to help make NHS workplaces
February 12th marked the launch of the brilliant Remembering What’s Forgotten’s digital exhibition! The exhibition, co-ordinated by Synergi-Leeds and Words of Colour, captures inspiring narratives of 60 people, as a creative response to 50 years of mental health and racial inequalities in Leeds. The aim of the exhibition is to champion unheard community and lived experience narratives to tackle the overrepresentation of Black and South Asian men detained under
The value of lived experience and peer support is integral to all of our work at Touchstone. Martin, a former Service User at Touchstone, has kindly shared his journey to becoming a Peer Support Worker at Touchstone below... Where to begin with this rollercoaster (in a positive way) of a journey through Touchstone? So here goes! I came through the service in 2022 with CST (Community Support Team) after
During the holiday period, Touchstone's Central Office's opening and closing times will be as follows: From 1pm on 24th December (Christmas Eve) the office will be closed. The office will remain closed on the 25th December (Christmas Day), 26th December (Boxing Day) and the 27th December. We will then re-open on 30th Dec at 9am-5pm and close on 31st December at 3pm and on January 1st (New Year's Day).
Winter can be a challenging time for many of us. If you need support over the festive break, there are places that can help. Touchstone have put together Winter Wellbeing booklets for Leeds, Wakefield and Kirklees. They contain information about mental health support, domestic violence and abuse support, other key support, free community meals, food, housing, and energy support, and more. Please click on the links below to
Touchstone has been named the 2nd Most Inclusive Employer in the UK in the prestigious national Inclusive Companies Awards 2024. The Inclusive Top 50 Employers is a definitive list of UK-based organisations that successfully promote inclusion across all protected characteristics. This outstanding achievement reflects Touchstone’s passion and drive to create a truly inclusive, engaged and supported workforce, representing the diverse local communities we work with. This award builds on