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My name is Shawna Healey, an award-winning journalist. Business and Community reporter for the Asian Standard and MSc journalism student at Leeds Beckett University.
Bradford Immigration and Asylum Seekers Support and Advice Network (BIASAN) has been awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. The organisation which has helped support asylum seekers and refugees in Bradford for over twenty years has received the highest honour a charity in Britain can receive.
Volunteers have climbed Mount Snowdon on behalf of a Bradford charity aiming to raise money for cancer patients. The Imran Khan Cancer Appeal (IKCA), based on Little Horton Lane, took a team of around 35 volunteers up Snowden, England and Wales' highest mountain, to support its specialised cancer hospitals in Pakistan.
Founded by Amir Khan and Haroon Mahmood in 2018, the international humanitarian charity Green Crescent UK has been helping Bradford and Malawi's most vulnerable by raising money, building houses, and providing access to food, water, and other essential items. After working with different charities and organisations to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to those in need in Malawi, the Bradford lads decided to start their own charity, Green Crescent UK.
Bradford Council has extended its successful Covid-19 small business support programme. The Bradford District Microbusiness Support scheme, a free initiative designed to help manage the challenges presented by Covid-19, will now run until the end of January 2022. The scheme will continue to offer bespoke advice and support through telephone one-to-ones with experts from a local business consultancy, Insight with Passion.
The environment along Bradford Beck in Shipley has been transformed thanks to a three-year-long project. The Environment Agency has worked in partnership with Bradford City Council, Friends of Bradford Beck and the Wild Trout Trust to complete a river restoration project on an urbanised stretch of Bradford Beck in Shipley since 2018.
Ma' Kelly's Kitchen is a non-profit small charity based in Keighley, Bradford, that hands out hot meals and food parcels to the most vulnerable in the community. Set up in March 2020 during the first national lockdown, Ma' Kelly's kitchen has been instrumental in helping elderly people have hot meals and families get access to food needed to keep them going.
Leeds City Council has released more information on the plans to create a large woodland memorial dedicated to the victims of Covid-19. Almost 50 hectares of new public parkland including a Covid Memorial Woodland could be developed on the former South Leeds Golf course off the Ring Road next to Middleton Park.
Bradford Council will celebrate Armed Forces Week 21 June to 27 June. Armed Forces Week is a chance for people to show their support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from currently serving troops to Service families, veterans, reservists and cadets.
Morley's second Little Free Library has been erected on the end of Middleton Road, thanks to community fundraising. Originally organised by Carry Franklin in Headingley in Leeds city centre in 2017, Free Little Libraries have exploded all across the city, with over fifty available to the public.
A socially distanced event to celebrate the official commencement of the demolition of the former Marks and Spencer, and Woolworths buildings on Darley Street, took place yesterday. Bradford Councillor Alex Ross-Shaw was in attendance, to play a part in the demolition process, in preparation for the development of the new Darley Street Market.
A charity in Leeds has been given the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Originally set up to help women and girls in Kenya, Tina Leslie brought her charitable work back home where she created Freedom4Girls UK in 2017 to help tackle period poverty in West Yorkshire.
