June 13, 2025
Community is the kind of superpower that doesn’t make headlines, but it can change everything – especially when you’re in a new place. ‘Community as a superpower!’ is the theme of Refugee Week 2025. It is also a concept that... View Article
June 13, 2025
Earlier this year, we were thrilled to be one of 30 innovative projects selected to be part of the Bradford City of Culture Creative Health programme, which will use the transformative power of culture, creativity and collaboration, to tackle some... View Article
Aila Taylor recently joined YDMT as a Woodland Trainee. In her blog she tells us about her hopes for improving accessibility to the Yorkshire Dales for everyone, and how YDMT helps asylum seekers and others to do just that through... View Article
November 13, 2023
In July, our People and the DALES team welcomed mums from Bradford and our new Trustee Noreen Khan to the woods above Austwick Hall for a culinary competition by campfire – a curry cook-off in the woods! The women are part of NEESIE,... View Article
September 22, 2021
Our first People and the DALES residential since the start of Covid-19 saw 24 women and children from the Maternity Stream of the City of Sanctuary Leeds come to Gearstones Lodge near Ribblehead. An ordinary weekend of fun and activity... View Article
March 31, 2020
Our training weekend brings together community organisers from Bradford, Leeds and Blackburn to learn navigation skills and group leadership in the Yorkshire Dales. The idea is that the participants will then have the knowledge needed to take their own groups... View Article
December 19, 2018
In September Rosie joined Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) as our new Outreach trainee. Working across two projects, Green Futures and Stories in Stone, she’s been helping to reach groups of people from diverse communities and welcome them to the beautiful... View Article
September 23, 2016
This September the small community of Malhamdale in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales opened their homes to a group of refugee and asylum seeking women and children for a weekend of fun and friendship.
October 14, 2015
People and the DALES' Hill Skills training weekends help to give community groups the skills and confidence to enjoy the countryside safely and independently in the future.
October 29, 2012
Words and pictures by Judy Rogers, our People and the DALES community worker: “Earlier this week I took a group of refugees and asylum seekers for a walk around Swinsty reservoir. Living in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales I rarely visit... View Article
