Name: People Helping People: North Kirklees
Start: 2026-01-21T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-21T20:00:00+00:00
Location: 25 The Princess of Wales Precinct

Local network meeting for community, voluntary & mutual aid groups in North Kirklees.
About this Event

Join North Kirklees’ Community Anchors & Community Plus & TSL Kirklees event.

Our guest speakers will be Lucy Moore, Senior Partnerships Manager & Emma Dickens, Associate Director of Charity & Partnerships at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. They will be sharing insights into their initiative, “MY Community Promise”.

We will also be joined by Billy Tindle, Third Sector Officer at Kirklees Council, who will help to demystify the funding process, offer guidance on applying for grants, and provide practical advice to make securing funding easier.

Come along to:

Meet local support charity TSL Kirklees. Find out about local funding and ways that they can help your group.
Meet your local TSL Community Anchors, Fresh Futures and S2R Creative Space. Find out what they are and how they can offer even more local support.
Hear from local community groups and charities.
Share information and updates about your services and activities and hear news from other local groups.
Learn about ways to promote your group, stay connected, recruit volunteers and get funding.
Network - connect and collaborate to work together and help each other.

Come along to connect, share, and strengthen our local third sector together.

Venue:

The Arcade Pop Up
25, The Princess of Wales Precinct
Dewsbury, WF13 1NH

This is a joint event organised by Batley and Spen Community Anchor - Fresh Futures and Dewsbury and Mirfield Community Anchor - S2R. The event is open to VCSE organisation and groups from the whole North Kirklees.

These meetings are run by the local TSL Kirklees Community Anchor organisations in partnership with TSL Kirklees, which means that we can really tailor the information and support for your local area.

Please note: This event is organised by Fresh Futures in partnership with - a local charity that gives free support, advice and training to any charity, community group or social enterprise in Kirklees - and is only open to any workers, trustees or volunteers from third sector organisations based or working in Kirklees. Our events and services are free because, like any other charity, we rely on grants and funding. If you have booked a place and then cannot make it, please cancel your place via Eventbrite or by emailing [email protected], so that we can offer that place to someone else and so that our funding isn't wasted.