\n The free Christmas Day lunch was held for the elderly in Shearbridge Road mosque by Dynamic Social Care, a care service provider.\n<\/p>\n
\n A three-course meal, entertainment and transport were all included.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 80 attendees included Naz Shah MP and community figure Graham Swain.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Mehnaz Bibi, Project Manager at Dynamic Social Care, said: “Our campaign to tackle loneliness this year during Christmas has been a huge success and greater than what we had anticipated.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our event was unique because it was held at Shearbridge Community Hall which is part of Shearbridge Road mosque.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Mehnaz Bibi with Naz Shah MP. (Image: Mehnaz Bibi)\n<\/p>\n
The sacrifices of the older community<\/p>\n
\n “We emphasised the importance of togetherness during the holiday period,” Ms Bibi said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We talked building communities and how the sacrifices and contributions made by the older generation had been forgotten by society leading to them feeling forgotten about.\n<\/p>\n
\n Attendees at the event. (Image: Mehnaz Bibi)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our event left people feeling valued, heard and seen which is what we want to achieve as an organisation.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A raffle draw raised \u00a3370, all of which will be donated to a Holme Wood food bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free Christmas Day lunch was held for the elderly in Shearbridge Road mosque by Dynamic Social Care,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-661485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115806056467611056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}