We are pleased to present our Annual Review for 2020, a year in which life unexpectedly changed for millions of people. But, a year in which we witnessed the silver-lining of incredible generosity, kindness, resilience and innovation across communities. In the review, we share and celebrate stories about our work and how this is enabling […]

Right from the outset, the Bringing It All Back Home project, run by Leeds Music Trust, captured us with the powerful impact that music can have on supporting people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health. Here is their story of 2020 – it’s a 25-minute video of authenticity, inspiration, resilience and utter joy – so, we […]

Our series of Lockdown Stories continues just as we head into this second, national lockdown. This story is from Simon, Chief Executive at Justlife, who shares the power of values, optimism and where the will to do things differently leads to the way of making new things happen. As we go into the winter, we […]

We’re back with another Lockdown Story and this time it’s over to Liz, Founder & Managing Director at Imagineer. Since March, when we all went into Lockdown, I’m sure that, like us, you’ve heard lots of positive noises about how society can be kinder, more neighbourly, less judgemental. Well, it seems that we’re now seeing […]

We cannot allow time to dim the spotlight we need to keep placing on the mental health and wellbeing of our children…  The next in our series of Lockdown Stories comes from Claire Hopkins, a founder and director at Impact North (www.impactnorth.co.uk). We all know that the coronavirus pandemic has massively affected the mental health […]

By Dave Tomalin, Chief Executive – Lippy People Lippy People is a video storytelling charity based in Leeds that contributes to positive social impacts through coaching people to tell and share their unheard stories of lived experience in order to positively affect their personal growth and wider social change. This is achieved by challenging the […]

August 2020 In this Longleigh Lockdown Story, it’s the turn of the Alcohol Education Trust (AET): www.alcoholeducationtrust.org Here, AET’s Chief Executive, Helena, introduces herself and the work of AET… Myself and group of dedicated teachers with an interest in health and pastoral care, founded the Alcohol Education Trust a decade ago now, out of a […]

During lockdown we’ve been holding regular ‘cuppa & chat’ video meetings with community-based projects that we’ve funded. The purpose in the meetings was to give the leaders of these projects a safe space to share concerns and hopes, get practical ideas from others and to make new friends and connections. The meetings have done all […]

Longleigh has been fortunate in receiving some excellent advice and guidance from James and Guy at Yoke & Co. as we navigated the world of charity finance and investment (https://www.yokeandco.com). They regularly send out blogs giving insights and opinion and the most recent one, ‘Is Total Return still too terrifying’, couldn’t be timelier for the […]

A note from our Chief Executive, Andy Peers It was back to work for the Longleigh team after a bank holiday weekend that’s been unlike any I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and perhaps like nothing I’ll – or we’ll – experience again. We are all living in extraordinary times. Out of the challenges that the […]

A new fund has been launched in response to the growing numbers of people affected by hate crime across the Black Country.

Over the last two-years we have seen that any projections we made about the expected demand for the Individual Grants we provide to residents within the properties and schemes of our originating donor have been exceeded.

There are some scary statistics out there about the level of funding applications that are unsuccessful.