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Celebrating our volunteers- view the gallery
Our volunteers are involved in pretty much aspect of running the West End Centre, from forums and consultations, befriending, cooking,...
West End Centre
Jun 4, 20201 min read


Say Hello to Thelma & Louise!
Meet our new West End Centre mascots Thelma and Louise. Thankyou To everyone who suggested names from, Cagney and Lacey, Florence and...
West End Centre
Jun 3, 20201 min read


Messages of hope from our community
Two weeks ago we put a call out to the community to help us decorate our tree of hope. We took out labels for people to fill in, along...
Fran
May 28, 20201 min read


Thank you to Tesco's Bags of Help
Thanks to funding from Tesco's Bags of Help our lunch club has now got wheels and a two course meal is now being delivered around our...
West End Centre
May 26, 20201 min read


Celebrating 5 years of our allotment project
This week marks five years since we first took on our allotments at Sunny Bank Road. From a desolate site with a shed made out of old...
West End Centre
May 22, 20201 min read


More and more meals and lots of Birthdays
Yesterday saw our lunch club take to the road once again. We delivered 25 meals and puddings. Along with Buns from our Irene and Leeks...
West End Centre
May 21, 20201 min read


Name our new centre mascots
This week Kathryn and Fran were gifted these beautiful bears, by one of our lovely volunteers. She said 'these are to say thankyou- you...
West End Centre
May 21, 20201 min read


Launching our green food bank with lovely leeks
So Dan and our fantastic volunteers have been busy up at the allotment, digging, planting, weeding, potting on and finally, this week...
West End Centre
May 21, 20201 min read


Make Someone's Day
This week is Mental Health Awareness week and the theme is acts of kindness . We may do acts of kindness every day without even...
Kathryn
May 19, 20201 min read


Need to create or update your CV- read on!
Creating or updating your CV can be a bit confusing- What do I need to put in? What goes where? So we developed this handy template and...
Fran and Jane
May 15, 20202 min read


Smiles all round with Lunch club on Wheels
Our Lunch Club on wheels is fast becoming the highlight of the week- people are really enjoying having a warm, home cooked meal and say...
Fran
May 14, 20201 min read


Here's to our tree of hope
While out for her daily stroll a couple of weeks ago, Christine spotted this wishing tree, and it got us thinking. A tree of hope at...
Fran
May 14, 20201 min read


How To Make Summat Out Of Nowt #16 Foraged Spring Pakoras
There are a lot of treats out there on our doorsteps, the three in this recipe are easy to find. Why not try these delicious vegan...
Kathryn
May 12, 20202 min read


How to make summat out of nowt #15 - Liven up your pasta
Pasta is something most of us have in our cupboards always a good filling goto food. This is an easy quick pasta sauce recipe, you can...
Kathryn
May 11, 20201 min read


Friendship helps beat the lockdown blues
We are alive and kicking and continuing to reach out to its members helping them to stay in touch and support each other through the...
Christine and Fran
May 7, 20202 min read


Lunch Club goes mobile!
Our weekly Wednesday Lunch Club has always been one of the highlights of the West End week, a meeting place for games, gossip and good...
Fran
Apr 30, 20201 min read


String, string what a wonderful thing, rope is thicker but string is quicker!
During these times it is great to see the community really pulling together, and supporting each other, its no different at our community...
Kathryn
Apr 28, 20201 min read


How to make summat out of nowt #14 Banana Bread
Its all about using what we have and trying something new! Fancy something sweet? Do you have bananas that are over ripe and no one will...
Kathryn
Apr 27, 20201 min read


How to make summat out of nowt #14 Carrots
Carrots are great can be used for many things sweet and savoury, we throw the scraps away why? we can plant them and grow more very...
Kathryn
Apr 21, 20201 min read


How to make summat outta nowt #13 Stale bread? Don't bin it, try these instead!
So, being a tight-fisted Yorkshire woman, I'm always trying to find ways to cut food waste in our house. One of the things I've thrown...
Fran
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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