Join Aiden & Caroline and learn to line dance. Each week Aiden or Caroline will teach you some new steps to get you scooting around the floor to some great music.

This is:

Class 23 – with Caroline -Walk through

Class 23 – with Caroline – Demo

A weekly Zoom session with Aspire’s very own Involvement Co-ordinators: Ailsa, Caroline and Tim.

They will bring you news from across our services, tell you about upcoming diary dates and there may also be a guest or two.

Before you join the meeting for the first time you will need to get a Meeting ID number and Passcode from one of the Involvement Co-ordinators. Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Are you getting into digital or thinking about it? Not sure where to begin? Want to learn more about how others are getting online or share your experience with them? Then join this regular Zoom chat led by Julie Lill.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Can you name the tunes in this week’s music quiz?

This week the theme is Nursery Rhymes. Click the link below to see the video:

Music Quiz No. 29 Nursery Rhymes

Life is very different at the moment, and we can all get a bit stressed. So why not enjoy some peace and calm by joining Gwilym’s Music & Meditation session?

The first time you want to join in you’ll need to contact Gwilym, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID and Passcode.

Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Join Becci in her Musical Theatre class and learn this week’s song and dance routine.

This week is: Rhinestone Cowboy.

This week’s recipe is:

Smartie egg and M & M cookie bar

Do you want to chat with your friends from across Aspire? You can by joining Julie on her regular Zoom session to catch up with their news and share yours.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie Lill and she will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Hosted by Becci at Rothwell Day Services, this is a fun way to test your music knowledge.

Contact Becci Barker for your Meeting ID number and passcode. Once you have the details keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Your cards for this week’s game Musicals

Ailsa Ryder (Involvement Coordinator for the ENE area) is hosting weekly Zoom meetings which are open to people who attend any of our ENE services.

This is an opportunity for you to chat with friends and catch up on all their news. If you want to join in, you’ll need a Meeting ID and Passcode which you can get from a member of staff or any of the Involvement Coordinators (Tim, Ailsa or Caroline).

Join our fabulous DJ, Nigel ‘Cally’ Callaghan, for an afternoon party with music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

You can join the party on the Aspire CBS Facebook page on Fridays between 1:30 and 2:30pm. Try to be prompt so you don’t miss the fun! Also, don’t forget to request your favourite songs and DJ Cally will try to play as many of them as he can.

You can watch a recording of this live event a few days after it has ended. Just go to our Online Activities page and click the tab called ‘Music, Dance & Exercise’.

Join Aiden & Caroline and learn to line dance. Each week Aiden or Caroline will teach you some new steps to get you scooting around the floor to some great music.

This is:

Class 24 – with Aiden Walk Through

Class 24 – with Aiden Demo

Dean from LYPFT creates all the symbols for the communication bank. His quiz sheets test your knowledge of the symbols. How many do you recognise?

Click the link below to see this week’s quiz:

Image Quiz Sheet no. 50

A weekly Zoom session with Aspire’s very own Involvement Co-ordinators: Ailsa, Caroline and Tim.

They will bring you news from across our services, tell you about upcoming diary dates and there may also be a guest or two.

Before you join the meeting for the first time you will need to get a Meeting ID number and Passcode from one of the Involvement Co-ordinators. Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Are you getting into digital or thinking about it? Not sure where to begin? Want to learn more about how others are getting online or share your experience with them? Then join this regular Zoom chat led by Julie Lill.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

We will post all the X-Factor entries to Facebook during the week before Leeds Learning Disability Week. This will enable people to view the entries during the week and add individual or group comments below each to indicate how many people want to register their ‘like’ of an entry.

Aspire Does X Factor (Aspire)

Join Becci in her Musical Theatre class and learn this week’s song and dance routine.

This week is: The Lambeth Walk

Life is very different at the moment, and we can all get a bit stressed. So why not enjoy some peace and calm by joining Gwilym’s Music & Meditation session?

The first time you want to join in you’ll need to contact Gwilym, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID and Passcode.

Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

This week’s recipe is:

Chocolate orange muffins

Do you want to chat with your friends from across Aspire? You can by joining Julie on her regular Zoom session to catch up with their news and share yours.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie Lill and she will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Hosted by Becci at Rothwell Day Services, this is a fun way to test your music knowledge.

Contact Becci Barker for your Meeting ID number and passcode. Once you have the details keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Your cards for this week’s game: TV themes 

Get ready for learning disability week.

Come to the Great Summer Chat to catch up with Connect in the North’s other members.

Book your place to get a welcome pack sent to you.

Join us for –

• What’s happening in learning disability week
• Maddy’s Mega Bingo
• Sarah’s Quiz
• Share your views

The Zoom link is –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8382752616?pwd=V0lmWFRRL0R6Tm56QTdRUHNoMWI3QT09

Meeting ID: 838 275 2616

Email sarah@citn.org.uk to book on and get the password.

Or ring 0113 270 32 33

The event is for Connect in the North’s members.

Not a member yet? No problem. It’s free to become a member.

Email sarah@citn.org.uk to get a membership form or sign up online https://forms.gle/ECodWb1WHsXf2VXv8

Great Summer Chat (Connect in the North)

Ailsa Ryder (Involvement Coordinator for the ENE area) is hosting weekly Zoom meetings which are open to people who attend any of our ENE services.

This is an opportunity for you to chat with friends and catch up on all their news. If you want to join in, you’ll need a Meeting ID and Passcode which you can get from a member of staff or any of the Involvement Coordinators (Tim, Ailsa or Caroline).

Join our fabulous DJ, Nigel ‘Cally’ Callaghan, for an afternoon party with music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

You can join the party on the Aspire CBS Facebook page on Fridays between 1:30 and 2:30pm. Try to be prompt so you don’t miss the fun! Also, don’t forget to request your favourite songs and DJ Cally will try to play as many of them as he can.

You can watch a recording of this live event a few days after it has ended. Just go to our Online Activities page and click the tab called ‘Music, Dance & Exercise’

Join Aiden & Caroline and learn to line dance. Each week Aiden or Caroline will teach you some new steps to get you scooting around the floor to some great music.

This is:

Class  25 – with  Aiden Walk Through

Class  25 – with  Aiden Demo

Walking, cycling, skipping, seated exercises … anything goes!

Do an activity or activities anytime from 1st of June through to 15th June and post a photo video of yourself doing it to our Aspire CBS Leeds Learning Disability Week Facebook group on Tuesday, 15th June.

Wear something yellow, adorn yourself in sunflowers or carry a picture of a sunflower.

Please Aspire know how far you walked or how many steps you achieved by emailing your area representative: cath.marchant@aspirecbs.org.uk (south),
teresa.jardine@aspirecbs.org.uk (North/West)
tracey.sowerby@aspirecbs.org.uk (North/East).

Aspire will total them all together and let you know how far we all went on Friday, 18th June during Picnic In Your Garden.

There will be a special Zoom meeting of the ‘All In This Together’ chat group on 8th June on how to make sunflower badges and headpieces.

If you want to join in the Zoom meeting, contact julie.lill@aspirecbs.org.uk for the joining details.

There will be prizes for Best Costume, Personal Achievement and Best Mileage.

Big Yellow Sunflower movement Flyer

Dean from LYPFT creates all the symbols for the communication bank. His quiz sheets test your knowledge of the symbols. How many do you recognise?

Image Quiz Sheet no. 51

LEEP1 are proud to have launched a new clothing brand AND Clothes early this year. AND Clothes is on a mission to shout about Abilities Not Disabilities (AND) and to change the way the world views adults with learning disabilities.

LEEP1 are building a window prop at Fabrication Crafts – a social enterprise and shop in Leeds City Centre that will go on public display during Learning Disability Week.

The team are excited to reveal their window design to the shoppers and visitors of Leeds on June 15th.

If you’d like to find out more you can follow the links below to the AND social channels

AND on Facebook

AND on Instagram

A weekly Zoom session with Aspire’s very own Involvement Co-ordinators: Ailsa, Caroline and Tim.

They will bring you news from across our services, tell you about upcoming diary dates and there may also be a guest or two.

Before you join the meeting for the first time you will need to get a Meeting ID number and Passcode from one of the Involvement Co-ordinators. Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93585607337?pwd=R09hTjk3WUdlOGJSS3FTNTI3OWZRUT09

Meeting ID: 935 8560 7337 . Email Claire.Nixson@advonet.org.uk for the password.

More details coming soon.

Leeds Learning Disability People’s Parliament

Are you getting into digital or thinking about it? Not sure where to begin? Want to learn more about how others are getting online or share your experience with them? Then join this regular Zoom chat led by Julie Lill.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Join James and Alice for a tour of the Pyramid Studio and meet some of the artists working with them.

Take a look behind the scenes and delve into their archive of artworks from the last 30 years.

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96398314590?pwd=VDM5Y3QvRlF1UlZkN2w1TU41NjZFZz09

Zoom meeting ID: 963 9831 4590

Please email info@pyramid.org.uk to book and to get the Zoom password.

Pyramid Studio Tour (Pyramid of Arts)

Can you name the tunes in this week’s music quiz?

This week the theme is Down Memory Lane as it is Leeds Learning Disability Week.  Click the link below to see the video:

Music Quiz No. 30 – Down Memory Lane

Life is very different at the moment, and we can all get a bit stressed. So why not enjoy some peace and calm by joining Gwilym’s Music & Meditation session?

The first time you want to join in you’ll need to contact Gwilym, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID and Passcode.

Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

A photo slideshow depicting fabulous images from the last 11 years of Leeds Learning Disability Week set to music performed by the Sky Fallers. Also, there will be a pre-recorded performance by Dramarama and a ‘wartime sing-a-long’ with Becci. Battle dress and bunker locations optional, Union Jacks mandatory!

Zoom Meeting I.D: 96340194652
Passcode: 300047

Down Memory Lane and Wartime Singalong Flyer

Down Memory Lane Day, Tea Party, Singalong Lyrics

Sign along to your favourite artists with DJ Joe. Eat together, enjoy and experience different national dishes. Zoom ID: 999 5858 1845 Contact the Halo team for further details.

Hamara Virtual Social Event

Open to all. Register for a place by contacting People Matters on 0113 2346896 or info@peoplemattersleeds.co.uk or @PeopleMatterLds

Meeting ID: 959 5138 9410

Zoom Movies & Musicals Quiz (People Matters)

This week’s recipe is:

Chocolate orange cream cookies

As with previous years, there will be a mixture of live and pre-recorded performances for you to watch and dance along to on the Aspire CBS Leeds Learning Disability Week Facebook group.

Zoom meeting ID-3750761551 Passcode 2

Morning of Dance (Aspire)

Comedy Booth

Passcode- fiRH9q
I.D 950 3818 8690

Do you want to chat with your friends from across Aspire? You can by joining Julie on her regular Zoom session to catch up with their news and share yours.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie Lill and she will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Leeds Autism Services develop and deliver a whole host of fun and engaging activities in their bases from arts and crafts, cooking, nature and gardening to wellbeing and lifeskills.

To celebrate learning disability week they thought they would host their own live arts and craft tutorial on Thursday, 17th June for everyone to get involved in.

Join them on Zoom to make your own salt dough garden stakes and plant markers to add personality to your garden pots this summer.

A list of the craft materials and tools you will need and how to join our Zoom event will be made available on the Leeds Autism Services website on 10th June.

Send an email to activities@las.uk.net if you would like the joining details and materials list emailing to you prior to the event.

You can see a list of all events that Leeds Autism services are running over Leeds Learning Disability Week by clicking the link below

https://www.las.uk.net/Event/leeds-learning-disability-week-2021

Continuing with our nostalgic theme, we will be looking back over the last 6 years of Customer Awards and recognising once again some of your fantastic achievements.

Zoom ID – 328 4800 0747

Passcode – 1

Customer Awards (Aspire)

It is Learning Disabilities Week this week, and YAM is celebrating by making this choir rehearsal an open one for interested people who have never been involved before.

They invite you to join them on zoom and show them what you’ve been up to during Learning Disability Week!

Here is the zoom link.  Please remember to ask permission if you want to share it.  Meeting ID: 476 248 2010      Passcode: 7mnT2C

They will be singing the songs below and you can find the lyrics here.

• Hi there, wave your arms
• Everywhere We Go
• Viva La Compagnie
• I Can See Clearly Now
• When You’re Smiling
• Solo spot, or Summer Holiday
• Think of Me.

YAMSEN’s final two Zooms of the year will be Friday 2nd July and Friday 16th July.  Any new singers who would like to keep singing with them are welcome to come.

YAMSEN would also like to invite you all to sing with them online at their summer showcase on Tuesday 6th July at 10-11am.  Normally Off By Heart singers would perform in the King’s Hall in Ilkley along with the Accord choirs and some instrumental groups.  This year they are gathering on Zoom to sing a few songs to each other and to give soloists and groups an audience to perform to.  If you would like to do a performance spot at the concert please let YAMSEN know!

The theme for this year is Summer Festival. So we want you to dig out those straw hats, sunglasses, hula skirts, shorts and Hawaiian shirts for the picnics and post your selfies/videos (hopefully in the sunshine) to the Aspire CBS Leeds Learning Disability Week Facebook group.

DJ Cally will host a live music request show in the afternoon to keep the Summer Festival theme going and we’ll announce the winners of Aspire Does X-Factor and the Great Aspire Bake Off competitions.

Picnic In Your Garden (Aspire)

Join our fabulous DJ, Nigel ‘Cally’ Callaghan, for an afternoon party with music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

You can join the party on the Aspire CBS Leeds Learning Disability Week Facebook group to end the week with a summer disco party between 1:30 and 2:30pm. Try to be prompt so you don’t miss the fun! Also, don’t forget to request your favourite songs and DJ Cally will try to play as many of them as he can.

You can watch a recording of this live event a few days after it has ended. Just go to our Online Activities page and click the tab called ‘Music, Dance & Exercise’.

Glastonbury and the Learning Disability Picnic might be cancelled this year but we’ve got it covered.

Join us for –
• The Glastonbury Headliners Quiz
• Festival Picture Bingo
• Find it

Dress up in Festival Chic and enjoy the party.

The Zoom link is –
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8382752616?pwd=V0lmWFRRL0R6Tm56QTdRUHNoMWI3QT09

Meeting ID: 838 275 2616

Email sarah@citn.org.uk to book on and get the password.

Or ring 0113 270 32 33 to find out more

The Living Room Fest (Connect in the North)

Join Aiden & Caroline and learn to line dance. Each week Aiden or Caroline will teach you some new steps to get you scooting around the floor to some great music.

This is:

Class 26 – with Caroline (walk through)

Class 26 – with Caroline (Demo)

Dean from LYPFT creates all the symbols for the communication bank. His quiz sheets test your knowledge of the symbols. How many do you recognise?

Image Quiz Sheet no. 52

A weekly Zoom session with Aspire’s very own Involvement Co-ordinators: Ailsa, Caroline and Tim.

They will bring you news from across our services, tell you about upcoming diary dates and there may also be a guest or two.

Before you join the meeting for the first time you will need to get a Meeting ID number and Passcode from one of the Involvement Co-ordinators. Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Are you getting into digital or thinking about it? Not sure where to begin? Want to learn more about how others are getting online or share your experience with them? Then join this regular Zoom chat led by Julie Lill.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Life is very different at the moment, and we can all get a bit stressed. So why not enjoy some peace and calm by joining Gwilym’s Music & Meditation session?

The first time you want to join in you’ll need to contact Gwilym, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID and Passcode.

Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

This week’s recipe is:

Jam and Butterfly buns

Do you want to chat with your friends from across Aspire? You can by joining Julie on her regular Zoom session to catch up with their news and share yours.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie Lill and she will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Can you name the tunes in this week’s music quiz?

Bingo card for this week’s theme : Players Picks

Ailsa Ryder (Involvement Coordinator for the ENE area) is hosting weekly Zoom meetings which are open to people who attend any of our ENE services.

This is an opportunity for you to chat with friends and catch up on all their news. If you want to join in, you’ll need a Meeting ID and Passcode which you can get from a member of staff or any of the Involvement Coordinators (Tim, Ailsa or Caroline).

Join Aiden & Caroline and learn to line dance. Each week Aiden or Caroline will teach you some new steps to get you scooting around the floor to some great music.

This is:

Class  –  27 with Aiden Walk Through

Class  –  27 with Aiden Demo

A weekly Zoom session with Aspire’s very own Involvement Co-ordinators: Ailsa, Caroline and Tim.

They will bring you news from across our services, tell you about upcoming diary dates and there may also be a guest or two.

Before you join the meeting for the first time you will need to get a Meeting ID number and Passcode from one of the Involvement Co-ordinators. Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Dean from LYPFT creates all the symbols for the communication bank. His quiz sheets test your knowledge of the symbols. How many do you recognise?

Image Quiz Sheet no. 53

Are you getting into digital or thinking about it? Not sure where to begin? Want to learn more about how others are getting online or share your experience with them? Then join this regular Zoom chat led by Julie Lill.

The first time you want to join the chat, contact Julie, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID number and Passcode.

Once you have the meeting details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.

Join Becci in her Musical Theatre class and learn this week’s song and dance routine.

This week is: Do You Wanna Dance

Can you name the tunes in this week’s music quiz?

This week the theme is -Animals. Click the link below to see the video:

Music Quiz No. 31 – Animals

Life is very different at the moment, and we can all get a bit stressed. So why not enjoy some peace and calm by joining Gwilym’s Music & Meditation session?

The first time you want to join in you’ll need to contact Gwilym, Tim, Caroline or Ailsa and they will give you a Meeting ID and Passcode.

Once you have the details, keep hold of them and use them every time you want to join in.