In celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we’re launching our “Keep Fit, Keep Healthy, Practice Sports” program. On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth. To celebrate this unprecedented anniversary, we are hosting a series of outdoor and indoor community sports events that will take place throughout the year, starting this bank holiday weekend – Saturday 04th June 2022. The outdoor sports will be...

We were fully represented at the “We Are Seacroft” Festival on the Seacroft Village Green, where we took steps and actions to planting trees and reducing our CO2 environmental footprint as part of the Jubilee week celebrations. Young people gathered and showcased their trees as part of their contributions towards reducing carbon emissions. Trees are a useful way of capturing and absorbing carbon dioxide from the air while releasing oxygen in its place. We love trees and believe many more should be planted. We need more trees and we need direct air capture. A Huge thanks goes to the “We...

Topic: Implications of Western Approaches to traditional African family value systems – Mental Health and Well-Being. Parenting Styles, Internalization of Values and Self-Esteem: Within Western cultures, self-esteem consistently amongst young people from minority communities has been demonstrated to be inversely related with parenting styles, which in effect can be characterized by low levels of acceptance and high levels of overprotection. Whatever our personal values, we largely base our self-worth on living up to the prevailing values of our culture. It is important to look at...

Feeling confident is important not just in your career, but in every part of your life. If you want to have real confidence that lasts, then it’s imperative that you understand yourself. This means having clarity around who you are and what you want. Building confidence is about adopting the right techniques and methods so that you can naturally build it up and also maintain it.

Marriage, parenting styles are some of the factors that can have great impact on our self- esteem. Friday 25th February, saw parents from the Black and Minority Ethnic Community in South Leeds coming together to discuss “how family impacts self-esteem”. If your self-esteem has been extensively reduced, reactions can be withdrawal, resignation, and in some cases self-damaging behavior and suicidal thoughts. Some build up a wall of distrust and close themselves off completely to others. They experience feelings of loneliness and inner emptiness, feelings of guilt, or even frequent irritation...

Culture, tradition and religious tendencies were some amongst other factors that young people in Leeds advanced as some of the highlight points that sometimes influence their self-esteem. When looking at self-esteem, one must consider the ever-growing young peoples mind. As their minds are developing, cultural differences have a substantial impact on the evolution of their psyche. The clash of Traditional African values and Western cultures are having a huge impact in young people’s self esteem particularly from our BAME community. Culture contains all the factors that could play a role...