News

August 11th, 2020
Congratulations to Julia B for being the winner of the hand carved seashell raffle.

June 10th, 2020
Congratulations to Irene R for being the winner of our first raffle. The prize was this hand carved bear cub.

March 16th, 2020
A big thank you to the Wharfedale Foundation for awarding us a grant to print and post more crisis cards. Very grateful!

January 3rd, 2020
A huge thank you to the Brelms Trust for awarding us funding for the next three years.
We're very grateful for your support!

December 13th, 2019
This year we're part of a Charity Tree Christmas Festival. Our tree is up in the St. Paul's Church in Morley (Kings Street, LS27 9ES).
The festival is open:
Fri 13th: 11 am - 3 pm & 5 pm - 7 pm
Sat 14th: 11 am - 5 pm
Sun 15th: 12 noon - 3 pm - Carols Amongst the Trees
Mon 16th: 11 am - 3 pm & 5 pm - 7 pm
Please visit the festival, it's an awareness raising and fundraising event.
Thank you and a special big thank you to everybody who made/donated decs and to the two volunteers who put it up, your efforts are very much appreciated

October 11th, 2019
We're very proud to have been awarded the Leeds Volunteering Kitemark with excellent feedback on our application, policies, procedures and ethos. Also very grateful to our volunteers putting up with the CEO/volunteer manager learning as she goes!

October 10th, 2019 - World Mental Health Day
A short video on stress, thanks to our volunteer (Captured By Cass) is our on-line contribution. Also running stalls at Leeds City College (Quarry Hill), Notre Dame 6th Form College and Leeds Becketts University (@ the Gateway, Leslie Silver Building) where we're also running a workshop.

July 21st, 2019
The amazing 2019 NCS team walked for 7 hours around Wakefield fundraising and spreading the word! What a fab idea to do it dressed as knights, apparently with a damsel in distress! We cannot thank them enough for picking our charity!

July 19th, 2019
We're very grateful to the Leeds Mates and Dates group for raising £233 for us!

April 5th, 2019
A huge thank you to the Trelix Charitable Trust for their £1,000 donation! Very much appreciated!

January 8th, 2019
Our crisis card, stand and poster are now available to order by any UK organisation and service (minimum 10). Individual cards are only available to our service users via our groups. If you're out of Leeds and only want one card, please ask a professional to place an order. If you are based in Ireland please contact us (we may be able to provide certain organisations and services with them if mainly working on mental health).

The card needs to be filled in when calm and can be presented to A&E staff, police, paramedics, crisis services staff, mental health professionals etc.

October 5th, 2018
Our crisis card is now available to order by all Leeds organisations and services (including schools) and to all our service users via our groups. The card needs to be filled in when calm and can be presented to A&E staff, police, paramedics etc. and will be considered by the Leeds Crisis team (read it out to them) and ALPS (Acute Liaison Psychiatric Service).
This is the trial run which is why we can only send it out to organisations in Leeds but we're hoping to make the cards available nationally in the near future.

July 3rd, 2018
A huge thank you to the Allen Lane Foundation for awarding us a £3,000 grant. Really appreciated!

June 4th, 2018
Many thanks to the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board staff for raising £100 for us during mental health awareness week!

June 1st, 2018
Many thanks to the George A Moore Foundation for their grant of £1,000 following our application. Very much appreciated!

April 28th, 2018
Thank you Leodis Pagan Circle for all the hard work you put in to raise this amount for us! We'll make full use of every penny to reflect your efforts!

March 29th, 2018
Awarded £10,000 by the Big Lottery Fund - Awards For All for our Volunteer Development Programme.
If you're interested in volunteering with us please click here.

March 16th, 2018
Dublin self-harm awareness conference
Fantastic self-harm conference yesterday in Dublin. Thanks Pieta House, Preventing Suicide and Self Harm and St. Patrick's Mental Health Services for organising it and especially for inviting me. Thank you for welcoming me, attending my workshops and even inviting me to join you on the end of the day panel! A special thanks to Cat Hughes for being very aware of my mental needs and looking after me. Also a big thank you to the 250 people who attended. It's great to see so many people wanting to learn and help.
Let's all work together and break down the stigma! (Jenny Groves, far left)

February 6th, 2018
Battle Scars is now a registered charity!