The Directory

5 Towns Media (Yorkshire) is a volunteer run community media and radio group for the 5 Towns area of Wakefield metropolitan district.

A collective commitment to improve the area has now grown into an active residents group delivering responses to community issues whilst connecting neighbours and supporting local charities.

The Aire and Calder Methodist Circuit support 32 Methodist schools and a Methodist primary school in the Wakefield Metropolitan District and part of Leeds. It also supports a range of local community projects run by the churches.

Airedale Neighbourhood Management Board has been a voluntary group since 2008. It works with Wakefield District partners to improve the area for the people of Airedale, Fryston, Ferry Fryston and Townville in Castleford. It manages a social enterprise community cafe.

Community First Yorkshire is an influential, regional body which works with voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises and rural communities across North, South and West Yorkshire. It is an independent charity formed from a merger between Rural Action Yorkshire and the North Yorkshire & York Forum.

The Community Foundation Wakefield District provides grants that make a genuine difference to the lives of local people. It manages charitable funds donated by local individuals, families, businesses and trusts, building up a source of long-term support for the community and acting as the vital link between donors and local needs, enabling people to achieve far more than they could by themselves. It is dedicated to helping communities grow by creating opportunities and tackling issues of disadvantage and exclusion.

The Eritrean Community Association in Wakefield is a group of people from the Eritrean community that wants to integrate and make a difference in the community area it lives. The group wants to participate in the community activities in the area.

Five Towns Christian Fellowship (5TCF) is a warm and lively church, evangelical and charismatic, with lots of social activity. 5TCF believes church is not where we go but what we are. 5TCF is multi-generational and caters for all ages through various activities and projects.

Groundwork Wakefield, which is part of Groundwork North, East and West Yorkshire, supports communities in need, working with partners across the Wakefield District to make positive changes. Its vision is to create better neighbourhoods, build skills and job prospects and to live and work in a greener way.

Homes 4 Yorkshire aims to use the house building process as a vehicle to create skilled and well paid jobs for people who struggle to find work. Using an advanced timber frame technology Homes 4 Yorkshire will build the best social housing the country has ever seen.

Leeds Credit Union is part of White Rose Credit Union following the merge in June 2014. The Credit Union is a 'mutual' meaning and it is owned by all its members for the benefit of members alone. It is a community focused organisation with 36,000 members, approximately 7,000 being in the Wakefield district and one of the largest in the UK. The Credit Union gives its members access to competitive savings plans and affordable loans at a fair rate of interest.

Leeds Involving People represents the independent voice of people through the promotion of effective involvement. It involves the community in the development of health and social care services by ensuring their opinions and concerns are at the centre of decision making processes. It does this by promoting best practice in involvement and by ensuring it uses methods that are appropriate, accessible and responsive to the needs of individuals and communities. It also supports individuals and organisations to become 'involvement ready' so they can work in partnership with public bodies to shape, improve and co-design services.