Johnson Service Group

We are a community group which has been set up to help work towards a more intergrated and sociable Armley Town Street. Our aim is for Armley Town Street and beyond to be a safer and family friendly shopping experience for all who live, work and play here. We are an umbrella group which support the establishment of sub groups to work on separate aspects of the community development. Examples of the subgroups are an Armley in Bloom group, and Armley Festival and entertainments Team, a litter picking and social impact team and a business support group. We are a volunteer group so we are relying on the expertise and time of individuals within our community to help to make this a cohesive and successful and sustainable project.

Champions Community Sport and Health CIC was established in September 2020, by our Director Craig Gilmore. Having delivered sport in the South Leeds community for over 20 years, Craig identified that a large proportion of children/young adults in South Leeds whose families were struggling financially, didn’t have the funds to join the more traditional sports clubs/ organised activities in the area, and consequently were becoming increasingly inactive, socially isolated and in some cases, involved in local gangs and anti-social behaviour. In response to this problem, we started to provide FREE turn up and play football sessions for children/young adults in the South Leeds area. Sessions are every Saturday 10.30am – 11.30am on Hunslet Moor in Beeston. Our aim is to make sport available to young people, who live in what is one of the most deprived areas of Leeds, irrespective of their age, ability and background. We’ve formed some amazing alliances along the way, Leeds South and East Foodbank provides fruit, yogurts and snacks, as most arrive hungry not having had any breakfast. Our local Tesco Express provides bottles of water. The Lord Mayor has even been to visit. Our first session was attended by 18 children/young people and our most recent by 94, with 402 names on our database. This has been achieved through word of mouth, and because Craig has the trust of the children/young people and their families living in the area, having taught many of them from the age of 4 years old. Approximately 98% of those attending are of a Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, which reflects the diversity of the local population.

We are volunteers who run a community garden and have just received a community fridge to help reduce food surplus waste. We would like to be added to the scheme which supplies charities like ours with surplus foods from supermarkets