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Offering practical and emotional support to pregnant mums six weeks before the birth, during labour and six weeks after the birth, through trained volunteers.

Doula is the Greek word for wise-woman. Acting as a ‘professional friend’, volunteer doulas help women to make positive choices, accompany them to appointments, provide practical support at the birth, build positive relationships with other services and offer emotional support.

Our Bradford Doulas project supports women to make the best choices for themselves and their babies, helping them to achieve a positive birth experience and building their knowledge to enable them to make informed decisions about childbirth, nutrition and breastfeeding. Support from volunteer doulas can also connect families into network of other support services.

Families are carefully matched with volunteer doulas who are best suited to them (dependent on the woman’s needs, requests and circumstances).

Who will benefit? Over the first three years the project will aim to train at least 50 women to become accredited volunteer doulas, who will go on to support around 200 pregnant women in the Better Start Bradford area. The service is suitable for women who require support regarding maternal health and social wellbeing. Evidence tells us that where a woman receives support before the birth, during birth and after the birth, she is more likely to have a natural birth and a more positive birth experience.

Who provides it? The Bradford Doulas service has been commissioned by Better Start Bradford to run the Bradford Doulas project in Better Start Bradford, supporting more expectant women living in our area. The Project also is funded by Bradford City CCG and supports all women and families across the City CCG wards.

Where and when is it delivered? Most support is in the home and volunteer doulas also accompany women to appointments, antenatal classes and hospitals for birth. Training for volunteers doulas, is held at Carlisle Business Centre.

How do families register? If you are over 28 weeks pregnant and feel that you would benefit from the support of a doula, you can ask for free help by contacting Bradford Doulas on 01274 223 232 or email bradford.doulas@carlislebusinesscentre.co.uk for a referral form. Women can also be referred by their midwife, doctor, health visitor, early year’s staff, social care, children’s centre, voluntary and community sector organisations or other Better Start Bradford projects.

The Society was founded in 1982 by a small group of individuals attending a course in family history run by Philip Rushworth, the first Chairman of the Society.
The aims of the Society are to promote Family History by education, mutual assistance, demonstrations, lectures, excursions and any other means conductive to its advancement.
It is run solely by volunteers with a passion for family and local history, working in their spare time.
From its inception, the Society has grown from strength to strength, in 2018 we have over 550 members worldwide, including UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe.
Bradford Family History Society is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies and the Yorkshire Group of Family History Societies.

Our expertise is serving those who have the highest vulnerability from refugees, women
fleeing violence and those with failed immigration status.
We are here to help with:
- Financial Grants
- Zakat Distribution
- Education Resources
- Food Parcels/ Hot Meals
- Pastoral Care
- Community Access To Agency Partners

Aims to foster and encourage knowledge and skills in these traditional crafts and Tapestry Weaving. We cater for all levels of ability and everyone is welcome. We try to have a guest speaker/ workshop on alternate months, with skills sharing sessions at the other Guild meetings. Items of equipment available to Members on hire at favourable rates. There is a small library offering a comprehensive range of publications for loan in return for a small fee. See our website for more details
Membership open.
Meet at the Lecture Room on the third floor, Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Road, Eccleshill, Bradford BD2 3HP on the third Saturday in the month, except November when usually 4th Saturday, at 11:00am-3:30pm,
AGM March.
Approx 50 members.

Charitable incorporated Organisation. Registered Charity No. 1189757 community religious charity

From its origins in 1832 to the present day, the Bradford Mechanics Institute has served the people of the City with educational, recreational and social activities.

Today we are primarily a well-stocked subscription library with an expanding range of very active Interest Groups.
Our building has undergone extensive refurbishment and on the 2nd floor we have rooms available to hire which now provide a fully-equipped kitchen, spacious meeting room and exhibition space. Please contact the library for more information.
Our members visit to exchange library books, or to meet with others for a stimulating talk on a wide range of subjects, or just to have a peaceful sit-down with a coffee. Indeed we are often described as a ‘haven of peace’ within the city centre.

The Library has over 14,000 books in the fiction section. These are constantly replenished with the most recent titles and our staff are keen to respond to the specific requests of readers. Non-fiction sections cover the usual full range of topics: biography, history, philosophy, hobbies, travel, etc . . . Sections which support our Interest Groups are particularly well stocked, for example, local history, poetry and WW1.
Our reading room has a supply of daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines can be read whilst enjoying a cup of tea or coffee.
Come and join us! We are open Tuesday to Friday from 9:30am to 4:00pm

Model engineering covering three main areas : 1-Model boats. 2-Scale Model Steam Powered Road Vehicles. 3-Miniature Railways.
Boat section sails at Wibsey Park Lake Sundays 10:00-12:00. Road vehicles and trains run in Northcliffe Park, Shipley, on Sundays 13:30pm-16:00pm. Membership open. Meet at Saltaire Methodist Church on the first Wednesday of each month at 19:30. AGM March. Approx 130 members. All ages welcome.
Children's birthday parties can be arranged on Saturdays please see our website for further details.

Part of the Trussell Trust National Foodbank Network. Opened in January 2015. Covering the following postcode areas: BD2, BD9, BD10, BD17, BD18 and also Aireborough (LS19, LS20).
We offer three-day, nutritionally balanced food parcels to people referred to us with food vouchers. Vouchers are held by many local professional and voluntary organisations - those that work with or come across local people in need of emergency food aid to help them through a tough time. We have four Bradford-based distribution centres and one in Rawdon. In Bradford we are based at: Church on the Way (BD10) on Monday afternoons, Shipley Baptist Church (BD18) on late Monday and Thursday afternoons, Christchurch Windhill (BD18) on Tuesday afternoons and St Luke's Church (BD2) on Thursday mornings. Normally, our distribution centres are set up as pop-up cafes, providing a warm, safe space to take a break from difficult circumstances, receive refreshments and a food parcel, have a chance to chat and obtain signposting to further support. However, the cafes have been closed during covid-19 restrictions, so clients either collect their food parcels at the door or, for those self-isolating, we have a delivery service.

A voucher recipient takes their food voucher to one of our pop-up cafe-style distribution points, where they will be welcomed, offered refreshments, given their 3-day food parcel (nutritionally balanced, long-life food. Enough for all dependent members of household), and given the opportunity of chatting to one of our volunteers who will signpost to additional support where appropriate.
We have five distribution centres in key locations around Shipley, NE Bradford and Aireborough:
MONDAYS
Trinity Rawdon, New Roadside, Rawdon, LS19 6AS: open 11am - 1.30pm (often open on Bank Holidays)
Church on the Way, 158 Bradford Road, Five Lane Ends, BD10 8SA: open 1pm - 3.30pm (Closed Bank Holidays)
Shipley Baptist, New Kirkgate, BD18 3QY: open 4-6pm (Closed Bank Holidays)
TUESDAYS
Christchurch, Church Street, Windhill, BD18 2NR: open 2-4.30pm
THURSDAYS
St Luke's Church, harrogate Road, Eccleshill, BD2 3NS: open 11am - 1.30pm
Shipley Baptist, New Kirkgate, BD18 3QY: open 4-6pm

User led self advocacy organisation for adults with a learning disability. Working on a range of important issues including self-advocacy, disability awareness, training, health, citizenship, crime, keeping-safe, rights and employment.

CURRENTLY CLOSED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE - NO CURRENT DATE OF RETURN

The aim of Bradford PHAB is to promote and encourage people of all abilities to come together on equal terms, to achieve complete inclusion within the wider community.

This includes promoting and encouraging the self-confidence and independence of young people of all abilities through a range of diverse activities and projects.

We have a large group of children and young people both with and without disabilities and we provide a wide range of activities for them to access. The participants are transported to and from the club each week. We also provide supervision and support to the children and young people and offer a break from everyday life with a chance to mix with and make new friends. Our unpaid volunteers include those that work, professionally, with individual disabled children and thus understand their needs and are able to make informed decisions to best achieve positive outcomes for them.