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Friends for Leisure are one of the 2 chosen charities to benefit from the Congleton Rotary Swimathon. We will have a team on the day-Saturday 21st March at 3pm at Congleton Leisure Centre. Please follow the link to donate, if you are able to and feel free to come and support us on the day! […]

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OF US AT FRIENDS FOR LEISURE.              BRING ON 2021!                             We’ve had our last zoom session of the year this week and what a year of change it has been for all of […]

My son who has Down’s Syndrome and is 16 years old has been actively involved with FFL since 2017.                                            FFL has made a massive and positive difference to his life and mine. My son […]

Trustees and staff at Friends for Leisure have undertaken a formal risk assessment in order to return to work after remote working for 4 months. You can read about this here – COVID 19 return to work assessment

On Monday 18th November we had our AGM. If you would like a copy of our annual report this is available on request, we also have an easy read version.

Hello-I’m Hannah and I’m one of the three Project Workers at Friends for Leisure, supporting young people and their families in Crewe and the surrounding areas. I have been working at FFL since June 2014 and have previously worked with young carers and in primary education after qualifying as a primary school teacher in 2011. […]

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has launched a new out-of-hours advice line for people living in the Cheshire and Wirral area. The advice line is open to everyone (children, young people, relatives, teachers, other professionals) and allows people to talk to a mental health professional if they are concerned or would like […]

This month, Friends for Leisure have been looking at self-care as it was self care week between 12th-18th November and National Stress Awareness Day on 7th November.  Macclesfield youth group kicked off the month with a yoga session. The group discussed stress-what it is, how does stress feel and ways that we can de-stress. The […]

  East Cheshire NHS Trust is working hard to make services more accessible for people with autism and their carers.  Our Open2Autism approach involves training staff so that they are aware of what a person’s needs may be. We have Autism Link staff in wards and departments and we promote our approach so that people […]

Open to anyone and everyone.  The winner will be chosen by local poet Angela Marie James www.amjames.co.uk