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June 14, 2021
Great Aspire Bake Off (Aspire)
All day
June 14, 2021
Today is your opportunity to enter the Bake Off competition. Post a photo of what you have cooked or baked to the Aspire CBS Leeds Learning Disability Week group on Facebook and let us know which category you are entering: savoury, sweet or healthy. All entries will be judged by a panel at Potternewton day service and the winners will be announced on Friday during Picnic in your Garden.
Throughout the day we will also have three live cooking/baking demonstrations on either Facebook or Zoom during which people will be able to chat, comment and ask questions.
Great Aspire Bake Off (Aspire)
Photography Competition (People Matters)
09:00 -17:00
June 14, 2021
Theme nature and landscapes please send in your entries (maximum 3 per person) with your full name and contact phone number by email to info@peoplemattersleeds.co.uk.
Entries to be in by Wednesday 16th June 5pm. Winners announced Friday 18th June on our website and social media.
For full competition details please see our website www.peoplemattersleeds.co.uk
Photography Competition (People Matters)
Sports Round-Up
10:30 -11:30
June 14, 2021
The regular weekly Zoom chat will be devoted to looking back at all the football and boccia tournaments which have taken place over the previous years of Leeds Learning Disability Week
Sports-Roundup-Zoom
Pyramid Art Circle (Pyramid of Arts)
11:00 -12:00
June 14, 2021
Join Pyramid online for an informal art sharing event. Meet Pyramid artists and see what creative projects they’re working on. You can share your own artwork, too.
Please call or email to book your free place 0113 234 6040 info@pyramid.org.uk
Pyramid Art Circle (Pyramid of Arts)
Accessible Website Launch (Being Employed Leed)
13:30 -14:15
June 14, 2021
If you live in Leeds, have a disability and are looking for work or courses and training to support you in to work, you are invited to come to the Through the Maze Ask Us Drop In to learn more about the new Being Employed Leeds accessible website.
At this online event Luke will show you,
How to navigate the Being Employed Leeds website.
Different parts of the website that make it easier to read.
How to listen to the website if you find reading difficult.
You will also be given a guided tour through the website explaining what each section is about and how it can help you.
At the end of the website tour you will,
Have a chance to give your feedback on any changes or improvements that will make the website easier for people to use.
Ask any questions you have about finding a job or getting support to find employment.
To book on to this free event please email info@citn.org.uk for the Zoom password.
Zoom Meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87387244339?pwd=ak1XbmprdFBUQnRZOWszWU91VHdyUT09
Meeting ID: 873 8724 4339
Accessible Website Launch (Being Employed Leeds)
SSE Quiz
13:30 -14:15
June 14, 2021
This weekly live quiz is open to people who attend any of our SSE services. Mark Pollard is your quiz master. Why not test how good your knowledge is?
To join in the session on Facebook, speak to a member of staff or your local Involvement Coordinator, Tim Snell, who will let you know the details.
If you are not from one of our SSE services, you can still join in the fun. Click the links below to download the questions and answers sheets from this week’s quiz:
SSE Quiz 14 June 2021- Questions
SSE Quiz 14 June 2021 – Questions with Answers
Proud of the NHS Collaboration in Leeds (NHS)
15:00 -16:00
June 14, 2021
NHS organisations in the city are working together to improve health for people with a learning disability. Sharing resources, creating resources and integrated pathways all support an improved service.

15
June 15, 2021
The Big Yellow Sunflower Movement Day (Aspire)
All day
June 15, 2021
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
Line Dancing
All day
June 15, 2021
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
Image Bank Quiz
All day
June 15, 2021
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
AND CLOTHES (Leep 1)
09:00 -17:00
June 15, 2021
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
Leeds Learning Disability People’s Parliament
10:30 -12:00
June 15, 2021
This year Leeds Learning Disability People’s Parliament will be held on zoom.
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
CICs Catch-Up
10:30 -11:30
June 15, 2021
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.
Pyramid Studio Tour (Pyramid of Arts)
13:00 -14:00
June 15, 2021
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)
Get Online Chat
13:00 -14:00
June 15, 2021
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.
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June 16, 2021
Rob's Music Quiz
All day
June 16, 2021
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
Music & Meditation
10:00 -11:00
June 16, 2021
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.
Down Memory Lane (Aspire)
10:30 -14:30
June 16, 2021
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
Hamara Virtual Social Event
12:00 -15:00
June 16, 2021
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
Zoom Movies & Musicals Quiz (People Matters)
18:30 -20:00
June 16, 2021
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)
17
June 17, 2021
Baking
All day
June 17, 2021
This week’s recipe is:
Chocolate orange cream cookies
Comedy Booth
10:00 -11:00
June 17, 2021
Comedy Booth
Passcode- fiRH9q
I.D 950 3818 8690
Morning of Dance (Aspire)
10:00 -12:30
June 17, 2021
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)
All In This Together
11:00 -12:00
June 17, 2021
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.
Live Arts & Crafts Tutorial – Salt Dough (Leeds Autism Services)
13:30 -15:00
June 17, 2021
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
Customer Awards (Aspire)
13:30 -14:30
June 17, 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)
18
June 18, 2021
LGBTQ+ Health Inclusion Taster Session (Change)
10:00 -11:00
June 18, 2021
A one hour taster session of the healthcare professional training, around LGBTQ+ health inclusion.
The session will include,
A quiz.
Questions and answers.
Promotion of the new project and how to be involved.
Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/95831395851?pwd=Ym1GSm9zVEVxUUxxcmdpakJpck56UT09
Zoom meeting ID: 958 3139 5851
Please phone Dominique or email DominiqueB@changepeople.org for the Zoom password.
YAMSEN Open Choir Rehearsal
10:30 -11:30
June 18, 2021
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!
Picnic In Your Garden (Aspire)
11:30 -14:30
June 18, 2021
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)
The Living Room Fest (Connect in the North)
13:30 -15:00
June 18, 2021
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)
Summer Dance Party (Aspire)
13:30 -14:30
June 18, 2021
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’.

Leeds Talent 2021 (People in Action/Leep 1)
19:00 -20:00
June 18, 2021
People In Action and LEEP1 have teamed up to put on a talent show and entries are now open. The final will be at 7:00PM on Friday 18th June, when we’ll be going LIVE! on YouTube.
19
June 19, 2021
Baking
All day
June 19, 2021
This week’s recipe is:
Cheese and Tomato bites
20
June 20, 2021
Stephen's Music Quiz
All day
June 20, 2021
Click on the link below for this week’s quiz sheet. The theme is John
2021.06.20 – Stephen’s Music Quiz Questions
The answers to last week’s quiz sheet can be found here:
2021.06.13 – Stephen’s Music Quiz Answers