Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
Health for All

Health for All Annual Review 2023–24

Health for All is a 33-year-old Leeds charity tackling health inequalities in deprived South Leeds communities, working with 11,000 people each year across services spanning breastfeeding support, children's activity, youth social action, learning disability, older people's wellbeing, food poverty, community transport, climate action and mental health. In 2023/24 it distributed £54,500 in Household Support Funding to 666 families, carried 29,855 passengers across 77,067 miles of community transport, supported 600 families weekly through six food pantries, and helped 1,446 families through Leeds Breastfeeding peer support. Six community and family centres serve 1,400+ people weekly. The charity's ethos — 'We did it ourselves, we did it together' — runs through all its work.

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📋About

Leeds Breastfeeding Peer Support and Bradford Better Start Breastfeeding; Better Together social prescribing (730 new to groups, 18 groups securing grants); ACE/Healthy Holidays children's sport and activity; Girls Together targeted groups; Green Futures youth climate action (200 young people, BBC Children in Need funded); The Bridge learning disability day service; Watsonia Cafe trainee placements; Enhance frail older people service; Career Connect employability programme; 6 community food pantries; Community Transport; Our Future Beeston climate project; 8 community and family centres; Being You mental health and suicide prevention; Care and Connect; Hongkongers integration project; Prerna Network for Sikh and Hindu elders (200+/week); Kushy Nannas Bangladeshi elders group Custom geography from upload: South Leeds, UK (Beeston, Belle Isle, Middleton, Holbeck, Cottingley, Allerton Bywater)

📊Key Metrics

11,000 people helped each year; 2,190 engaged through Better Together; 10,300 children engaged through sport and Healthy Holidays activities Key Metric 1
29,855 passengers carried across 3,790 return journeys and 77,067 miles by community transport; 600 families supported weekly through 6 community food pantries; £54,500 Household Support Fund distributed to 666 families Key Metric 2
1,259 mums helped by breastfeeding peer supporters across 459 group sessions; 1,446 families supported through Leeds Breastfeeding; 2,948 Better Start Bradford referrals and 1,125 postnatal ward visits Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 18 small groups securing grants through Better Together; 730 new people joining groups; Cottingley Free Shop rehomed 50+ large furniture items and 1,500+ clothing items in its first year — started entirely from community initiative
  • 6 community centres and family centres serving 1,421+ people weekly across 62 hosted groups; Cottingley Community Centre, Vicars Court and partnership centres progressing towards long-term community ownership
  • 34 Green Futures youth social action members; 5 community eco visits; 8 community events and campaigns; 45 sports coaches; 55 schools supported; Household Support Fund distributed directly and rapidly to most in need

📍Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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