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What the Friday Youth PodcastEpisode 15: Apprenticeships + Youth Motivational SpeakerIn this week's episode, Daryoush speaks to Tamara at Kirklees College about Apprenticeships and Josh speaks to Claire about becoming a motivational youth speaker.
If you would like to become a youth speaker why not consider these steps:
1. Define Your Message
Think about:
What issue or experience do you care deeply about?
What do you want others to learn or feel?
What change do you want to inspire?
2. Develop Your Speaking Skills
Practice your story or talk out loud.
Join speaking groups like:
https://speakerstrust.org/
En...2025-06-0528 min
What the Friday Youth PodcastEpisode 14: Resitting English & Maths + Peer PressureIn this episode Sean talks about the benefits of going back to college to re-study English and Maths and we also speak to Callum, who as a victim of peer pressure ended up being suspended from college. Both talk personally about the challenges they are facing and how they are overcoming them.
Links for studying English and Maths:
If you are thinking about returning to college these are are our top tips:
Assess Your Needs: Determine whether you prefer in-person or online learning.
Explore Local Colleges: Contact institutions like Kirklees College https://www.kirkleescollege.a...2025-06-0528 min
What the Friday Youth PodcastEpisode 10: HPV Immunisation & VolunteeringIn this week’s episode we look at the benefits of having the HPV immunisation and speak to a young adult who has turned his life around through volunteering.
HPV vaccination
NHS information on HPV vaccine:
https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/hpv-vaccine/
Find your local GP or register with a GP surgery:
https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp
We’d like to thank Locala https://www.locala.org.uk for their support with this podcast.
Volunteering
If yo...2024-11-2917 min
Healthy Minds RadioStuart from Safespace hosts friends from The SamaritansThis episode was broadcast on 25/9/2023 on Phoenix FM 96.7.
Content warning: Discussion of suicide.
Join Safespace worker Stuart Davies, as he welcomes Punch and Stephen to Healthy Minds Radio for a conversation about the Samaritans.
Punch and Stephen are Samaritans working in Calderdale and Kirklees. In this episode, they debunk some common misconceptions about the Samaritans. They explain a little bit about the history of the organisation, what its purpose is and how it all works in practice.
If you...2023-09-2548 min
Care Insights with The Outstanding SocietyPreparing for the CQCZoe is joined today by Karen Pogson who is the registered manager of Active Social Care Limited
An outstanding rated Homecare provider who operate in Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford.
Zoe is also joined by Rob Hargreaves, Information Service Manager from Skills for Care
Together discuss how to prepare for the changes to the CQC inspection process and suggest resources that may help.
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CQC Single Assessment Framework – the CQC website continues to be lightly refreshed to reflect the incoming changes. It is a great source of what the key...2022-12-1519 minCare Insights with The Outstanding SocietyPreparing for the CQCZoe is joined today by Karen Pogson who is the registered manager of Active Social Care Limited
An outstanding rated Homecare provider who operate in Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford.
Zoe is also joined by Rob Hargreaves, Information Service Manager from Skills for Care
Together discuss how to prepare for the changes to the CQC inspection process and suggest resources that may help.
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CQC Single Assessment Framework – the CQC website continues to be lightly refreshed to reflect the incoming changes. It is a great source of what the key...2022-12-1519 min
WDI PodcastFQT 27 August 2022
Feminist Question Time with speakers from Brazil, UK, Germany and USA
Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our...2022-08-301h 05
History Out LoudThe Legend of Robin Hood and Kirklees Priory (EPISODE 2)Join us again for part two of the ever-morphing legend of Robin Hood. In this episode Paul Weatherhead and John Billingsley are back with Gill Carpenter to discuss documented hauntings and supernatural experiences at the grave on the Kirklees estate.
For further reading check out these two books:
- ‘Weird Calderdale – Strange and Horrible Local History’, by Paul Weatherhead.
- ‘Hood, Head and Hag – Further Folk Tales from Calderdale’, by John Billingsley.2022-05-2743 minHistory Out LoudThe Legend of Robin Hood and Kirklees Priory (EPISODE 1)Local folklorist, John Billingsley and 'Weird Historian' Paul Weatherhead make a welcome return to History Out Loud to discuss the legend of Robin Hood, his death at Kirklees Priory and the mysterious goings on thereafter...
This will be a bumper two-parter - we had so much to say!
*For further reading, check out these two books:
- 'Hood Head and Hag - Further Folk Tales from Calderdale', by John Billingsley
- 'Weird Calderdale - Strange and Horrible Local History', by Paul Weatherhead.
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Discover 2020: Pandemic StoriesDiscover 2020: Pandemic Stories: Rob Webster CEO SWYPFT NHS Trust March 2021Being responsible for thousands of NHS workers and hundreds of Patients with mental health problems was a giant challenge for the then Chief Executive Rob Webster during the Pandemic Lockdowns.
Rob talks honestly to Gary, Tony and Michael about his personal situation, which clearly was not easy, balanced against the demands of work where his personal responsibility was for looking after those most disadvantaged and affected by the pandemic. His experience is personal. But it is also human, positive and hopeful in the context of personal and professional challenge.
Listen to his story of how...2021-09-2917 min
The Leaders Council PodcastIn Conversation: Amanda Lodge-StewartAmanda Lodge-Stewart is a director at The Link Training Academy, an SME private training provider registered on the RoATP, which delivers apprenticeships in West Yorkshire, mainly in Kirklees and Calderdale. Amanda is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry.2021-06-2247 min
Navigating NursingWendy Iles, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Clinical lead for a Primary Care Workforce and Training hub In this episode Laura meets with Wendy Iles, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Clinical lead Primary Care Workforce and Training Hub (Calderdale, North Kirklees and Greater Huddersfield). They discuss her transition from working in the Emergency Department to Practice Nursing.Wendy discusses her passion for nurses pushing boundaries and her time as a principle in a General Practice Surgery with two other Advanced Nurse Practioners.Wendy is now a Clinical Lead for a training hub. She facilitates and supports training to the current and future primary care workforce – encouraging increasing placements of undergraduate nurses within pr...2021-03-2622 min
Discover 2020: Pandemic StoriesFull introduction to Discover 2020: Pandemic StoriesFind out from the the people involved in Discover 2020 project what this project is all about. Full of insights, discussion and learning from the stories and the experiences of others and themselves in lockdown! Focusing on the affects of mental health and wellbeing.
Interviewed by Matt Ellis - Principal of Calderdale and Kirklees Recovery and Wellbeing College
Gary, Michael and Tony - 3 volunteers trained as Oral Historians give an account of why they feel this is important work
Supported by Maria Ineson project co-ordinator - Wakefield Mental Health Museum
2021-03-2332 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesCarrie talks to Michael - Full Interview 24 mins18 weeks in, Michael and Carrie look back on the early days of lockdown as a time of peace and quiet.2021-03-2223 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesSara talks to Michael- Full Interview 12minsAfter 16 weeks of living with the pandemic, Sara talks to Michael about the benefits of volunteering in lockdown, delivering an online course for the Recovery College2021-03-2212 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesTony talks to Gary - Full Interview 16minsFifteen weeks into lockdown and we're looking forward to the lifting of restrictions. Thinking the worst is over, Tony reflects on the impact it's all had on his mental health.2021-03-2216 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesMichael and Gary - Full Interview 29 minsTwelve weeks after lockdown began, and Michael and Gary ponder the question - has lockdown changed the way you view things?2021-03-2228 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesCarrie - Short Interview 4minsIt's now 18 weeks since the world changed and Carrie reflects on the impact of not being able to work, missing her family and the power of a good cry.2021-03-2204 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesCarrie - Short Interview 2 mins18 weeks in, Michael and Carrie look back on the early days of lockdown as a time of peace and quiet.2021-03-2201 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesSara Interview short version - 3 minsAfter 16 weeks of living with the pandemic, Sara talks to Michael about the benefits of volunteering in lockdown and what is was like delivering an online course for the Recovery College.2021-03-2202 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesGary - Full Interview 21minsLockdown began on 23 March 2021. This interview was recorded seven weeks later when Gary tells Michael how he's coping with this bizarre new situation.2021-03-1921 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesTony - Interview with 8 minsFifteen weeks into lockdown and we're looking forward to the lifting of restrictions. Thinking the worst is over, Tony reflects on the impact it's all had on his mental health.2021-03-1808 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesMichael & Gary discuss 2minsExploring issues of mental health throughout the lockdowns of 2020 and beyond. Oral histories project of interviews of people who have a lived experience of mental health and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected them2021-03-1502 minDiscover 2020: Pandemic StoriesGary - Interview 4 minLockdown begins on 23 March. This interview was recorded seven weeks later when Gary tells Michael how he's coping with this bizarre new situation.2021-03-0803 min
On brand with ....Deb HetheringtonBuilding profile, the power of social media, and the secret to entrepreneurial success!Ad:venture Programme - expert help to take your business from start up to scale up.AD:VENTURE can support businesses in or locating to: Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield and York (within the Leeds City Region)Leeds Beckett TEDxDeb on LinkedInTo find out more about Deborah's work: deborahogden.comMore details on her monthly membership The Impact Club can be found hereYou can subscribe to h...2020-02-1839 min
Casefile True CrimeCase 37: The Yorkshire Ripper (Part 1)[Part 1 of 3]West Yorkshire is a county in England that has a population of over 2 million people. It covers an area of over 2,000 km² and is formed by five cities: Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees, and Calderdale. Each one of these cities has its own history, its own identity, and its own voice.But during the 1970’s, they were all united. The residents of each city were looking over their shoulders, praying they wouldn’t be the next victim, in one man’s reign of terror who the press named, “The Yorkshire Ripper.”Research for this ep...2016-10-221h 05