Organisation Directory

To protect, conserve enhance and maintain Woodhouse Ridge and help improve the facilities and resources.

We have a community garden that we are opening up to community groups on Monday mornings - but more often if there's a need. It is a place to meet and chat, grow crops and share experiences with young and old. Groups need to book in advance please.

The WEA is a national adult education provider that operates regionally. We are a charity, publically funded and ofsteded on a regular basis. We also work with groups and organisations that receive funding for specific educational projects. We run accredited and non-accredited courses for 16+ irrespective of age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and religion, including adults with mental health problems, physical disabilities, and / or learning difficulties. Some courses for the general public are advertised in our brochure and website, however, some are discrete courses requested by community agents or groups, including Trade Unions. All our courses are run in a wide variety of local community venues including schools and centres.

WYCAS' overall aim is to develop the ability of voluntary and community sector organisations with charitable aims to manage their money more efficiently and effectively, enabling those organisations to better attain the objectives that they were set up to achieve. WYCAS is a small charitable company operating mainly though not exclusively in West Yorkshire and provides a dedicated advice line, one to one training, training courses, a range of Good Practice Guides, regular Newsletters as well as preparing and independently examining annual accounts.

To pair trained volunteer mentors with young people (aged 10-16) who need help realising their potential. ? To aid young people to improve relationships with family, peers, teachers and others in the community. ? To help young people to have better chances in life. ? To develop in young people the ideas of self-help and self-responsibility ? To expound and use diversionary activities, projects that raise aspirations or reduce isolation ? To help to advance crime reduction thus creating a safer society

The Choir will hold concerts, some social events and entertain at local residential care homes.

We are a group of Christians of all ages and backgrounds who meet regularly for worship and fellowship and try to live out our Christian faith in our daily lives. There are many groups for both children and adults that meet regularly during the week.The Ladies Guild meets every Monday evening (except Bank Holidays). The men of the church and others locally who care to join us meet with them on the first Monday of the month when this joint meeting is called 'The Monday Guild'.

For more than 150 years, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, a charity that exists to promote farming and the countryside, has helped support those living and working in rural areas, assisting progress whilst never losing sight of the value of our heritage. Every year it gives away more than 1m to help agriculture through grants to fund agricultural research, sponsoring of farming projects, running the Farming Enterprise Awards, supporting numerous charities and organisations, running an education programme to improve understanding of rural matters and disseminating information by organising key conferences, seminars and competitions. The Yorkshire Agricultural Society also organises and hosts the annual Great Yorkshire Show and Countryside Live, which both take place on the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate. Enjoy the benefits of membership at the Great Yorkshire Show - free admission to all parts of the Show, preferential car parking, use of members' facilities and much more. Please find details and an application form on the website.

Encouraging faith communities to work together to challenge discrimination and injustice and generally advance the contribution of faith communities

YAHS is a charity established in 1863 to encourage the study of Yorkshire's past, both archaeological and historical. We run lectures and day schools and work closely with many other voluntary groups in the heritage sector across the historic county of Yorkshire. Our library and archive collections are now kept in the Brotherton Special Collections, University of Leeds. We publish the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal every year, and have a range of other publications, plus newsletters to our members. See our web site www.yas.org.uk.

The study of industrial archaeology and history, including transport, engineering, etc. Three newsletters a year, lectures, Industrial history walks. For further information please refer to the website.