The latest news from Lightwaves
2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Public Notice
Happy Healthy Holidays – Summer 2024
The Lightwaves and Next Generation Team are on countdown to welcome our local children and young people to participate in our 4 week summer HHH project at Lightwaves Centre.
Free for children & young people on FREE School Meals /low income.
ÂŁ5.00 for other children & young people and discount for other family members
If you have any questions please contact the team direct. Call 01924 360158 and leave your name, address, telephone number, and age of children & young people and we will return your call.
Please see flyers below for further details, Junior and Senior sessions available.
You can get further details on Happy Healthy Holidays here https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/schools-and-children/happy-healthy-holidays
#HAF2024 #lightwaves
NOTICE (as of 22 February 2024)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the wrestling event on Saturday 24 February has had to be cancelled by the event organisers (not Lightwaves). Apologies to anyone wishing to attend the event.
Wrestling Comes to Lightwaves! – CANCELLED
Saturday 24 February 2024. Get your tickets here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/broken-ring-wrestling
Happy Healthy Holidays – January 2024
Working with Lightwaves to deliver the Wakefield MDC Happy Healthy Holiday programme.
The next programme starts on Wednesady 03 January 2024, 12 noon to 4 pm. See the poster below for all dates and further details.
Make new friends and learn lots of interesting facts about keeping fit & healthy and your local area.
Activities will be geared towards encouraging participation, skills development, increasing confidence and socialisation and developing each individual. We will provide information for families relating to healthy food choices, meal preparation and general daily lifestyle options and if required signpost to organisation for extra help.
If you have any questions please contact the team direct.
Call 01924 360158 and leave your name, address, telephone number, and age of children & young people and we will return your call.
You can get further details on Happy Healthy Holidays here https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/schools-and-children/happy-healthy-holidays
#HAF2024
Community Shop Donations
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Happy Healthy Holidays at Lightwaves – Summer 2023
Happy Healthy Holidays at Lightwaves – Easter 2023
It’s nearly that time of year again!
Cost of Living Drop-In Event at Lightwaves
Warm Space
We at Lightwaves and Next Generation Youth & Community Projects are your local Warm Space.
An inclusive and warm place to gather for free and enjoy hot refreshments, a good selection of books, board games, company and more.
To find other local warm spaces visit wakefieldcouncil.com/warmspaces
Happy Healthy Holidays – Winter 2022
Working with the Next Generation Youth and Community Project team to deliver the Wakefield MDC Happy Healthy Holiday programme.
In 2022 the programmes will cover the Easter, summer, October and Christmas holidays.
The next programme starts on Monday 19 to Thursday 22 December 2022, 12 noon to 4 pm.
Come and try new and existing sports, sporting tournaments, arts activities, mural painting, gardening and environmental related tasks, cooking & baking, computers, and trips out, there is even a bouncy castle extravaganza to finish the week on Thursday!
Make new friends and learn lots of interesting facts about keeping fit & healthy and your local area.
Activities will be geared towards encouraging participation, skills development, increasing confidence and socialisation and developing each individual.
Plus we will provide information for families relating to healthy food choices, meal preparation and general daily lifestyle options and if required signpost to organisation for extra help.
If you have any questions please contact the team direct.
To register your place either:
A) register online https://lightwavesleisurecommunitycentre.coordinate.cloud/
B) pick up a Consent Form from Lightwaves Centre Reception between 11am and 3pm daily
C) turn up on the day and complete the Consent Form to take part
D) phone 01924 360158 and leave your name, address, telephone number, and age of children & young people and we will return your call.
#WFHappyHealthyHolidays
Happy Healthy Holidays – August 2022
Happy Healthy Holidays – April 2022
Working with the Next Generation Youth and Community Project and the 5Sports teams to deliver the Wakefield MDC Happy Healthy Holiday programme.
In 2022 the programmes will cover the Easter, summer, October and Christmas holidays.
The next programme starts on Monday 11 April to Thursday 14 April 2022, 12 noon to 4 pm.
#WFHappyHealthyHolidays
Access to Computers and the Internet at Lightwaves
Do you need to apply for a job, do homework, study, access information on the internet?
Come along to Lightwaves and use our internet cafe facilities.
We have a drop in facility for internet usage and a laptop in reception, group sessions for youths on Wednesday evenings, and family and youth sessions on Saturday afternoons.
Call 01924 360158 or 01924 200039 for further information.
Feel Good Fridays
Come along to Lightwaves and feel good on a Friday!
All sports activities half price for everyone and free table tennis and badminton for over 60’s.
Offer available between 9am and 4pm.
Please book in advance to ensure a place.
Open Community Consultation
We would like invite you to an open Community Consultation event about potential development at Lightwaves. On Wednesday 18 August 2021 we will have a drop-in session at Lightwaves Leisure & Community Centre between 4pm and 7pm when you can have your say.
We would like to hear your ideas of what improvements you would like to see at Lightwaves that could benefit you, your family and the local community. This could be specifically for your group, or about new or better facilities within the building, e.g. a better café, new furniture, improved sports and leisure provision for young people and others.
We want you to dream big because anything is possible.
We hope to see you there, but if you cannot, please send us your thoughts and suggestions to: [email protected]
Happy Healthy Holidays
Working with 5Sport and the Lightwaves Team to deliver the Wakefield MDC Happy Healthy Holiday Projects. We have 50 places available over the next 4 weeks, starting on Monday 2 August 2021 for children and young people 8 years to 11 years. .
Come and try new and existing sports, arts & crafts activities, mural painting, gardening and environmental related tasks, cooking & baking, play board games and trips out.
Make new friends and learn lots of interesting facts about keeping fit & healthy and your local area.
Activities will be geared towards encouraging participation, skills development, increasing confidence and socialisation and developing each individual.
Plus we will provide information for families relating to healthy food choices, meal preparation and general daily lifestyle options and if required signpost to organisation for extra help.
If you have any questions please contact the team direct.
To register your place either :
A) register online https://lightwavesleisurecommunitycentre.coordinate.cloud/
B) pick up a Consent Form from Lightwaves Centre Reception between 11am and 3pm daily
C) turn up on the day and complete the Consent Form to take part.
D) phone 01924 360158 and leave your name, address, telephone number, and age of children & young people and we will return your call.
Step Up – Wakefield Council’s flagship Employment and Skills Service
Wakefield Council’s flagship Employment and Skills Service will no longer be at Lightwaves every WEDNESDAY 10am – 1pm. Please see them in their new premises in the Market Hall.
Email: [email protected]
Call: 01924 303334
We are taking bookings! 17 May 2021
We are now open for your indoor sports and room bookings. Please call 01924 360158 or email [email protected] to book in advance.
Badminton
Table Tennis
Basketball
Children’s Classes
Meetings
The centre will continue to operate in line with current government safety guidelines and those planning to visit will still be required to follow a range of COVID safe measures.
Please adhere to current government guidelines with group numbers and household mixing and ensure contact is minimised. Please complete the track and trace form on arrival at the centre.
Please note we are only taking card payments in the current climate.
Thank you and welcome back!
The Lightwaves Team
Hello Neighbour!
Hello Neighbour! is our new Check in and Chat on the doorstep project with Next Generation Youth & Community.
We will be going around the Pinderfield, College Grove and Eastmoor area knocking on doors on a Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, if you see us give us a wave.
If you need any help with; picking up your shopping, a food parcel, employment and benefits advice or just a friendly phone call during these difficult times give us a ring on 01924 360158.
Stay safe and don’t forget it doesn’t take much to say Hello Neighbour!
Please note there is no longer a food bank at Lightwaves (Nov 2022).
Getting Creative to Support Wellbeing
Creative Minds and People’s Voice Media are delivering online Community Reporting Training for people in Wakefield. Please click on the flyer below for more information and please spread the word.
Drop In Advice Sessions
A new weekly drop in advice session from Citizens Advice Wakefield District will be held at Lightwaves every Wednesday, 10am – 12pm.
PLEASE NOTE: At the moment this service is now being carried out using online appointments due to the current Government Lockdown restriction implied in January 2021).
Free and confidential information and advice on:
Welfare Benefits – Entitlement, challenging decisions, help with forms…
Work – Redundancy, pay, terms and conditions, dismissals…
Consumer – Faulty goods, problems with services, holidays, building work…
Housing – Landlord and tenant disputes, disrepair, evictions…
Family – Ending a relationship, looking after people, death…
And much more!
At the weekly drop in session our adviser will assess how best to assist you and will arrange further appointments (telephone or in person) if necessary, including referrals to our own Citizens Advice team of
– Debt advisers
– Fuel advisers
– Universal Credit Help to claim advisers
We are a good place to start as we can also signpost you to more appropriate local or national organisations for specialist help if required.
Citizens Advice Wakefield District is a registered charity. Although part of the national Citizens Advice network we are independent and run locally for the residents of Wakefield District.
Telephone: 03444 111 444 or visit: wakefielddistrictcab.co.uk
BIG WELCOME BACK!
Hello everyone! Lightwaves is pleased to announce that we are planning to re-open the centre on Tuesday 1st September 2020.
Please note that we will only be taking card payments/contactless at the moment.
We will also be operating the track and trace system and respectfully request that you sign in upon arrival.
We look forward to seeing you.
Thank you
The Lightwaves staff
COVID-19 Help and Translated Information
For language translated information on Coronavirus/COVID-19 click here.
Please see our help and information cards given out to the local community. #WakefieldCares
14 April 2020
Help Raise Money for Food Parcels – Buy a Meal for 5 People
Lightwaves Community Trust in partnership with Next Generation are doing a fund raiser with The Grand to help raise money for food parcels for people in Wakefield who are having to socially isolate.
What we would like you to do is buy a meal for 5 people, which you pay and click and collect from Dewsbury, and all the money goes towards helping people in our community through these difficult times.
Please visit www.shaadi-khana.co.uk to order.
Thank you.
01 April 2020
Volunteers Needed
Lightwaves and Next Generation Leisure and Community Centre are coordinating a volunteer response to the needs of our community and working alongside the Local Authority, NOVA, NHS and other partners in the Voluntary Sector in response to the current COVID19 pandemic. Can you volunteer?
Could you volunteer to:
– Chat to people on the phone who may be self-isolating so that they don’t get lonely
– Do shopping or drop off other supplies
– Take someone’s dog for a walk if they can’t get out
– Make food parcels
– Do deliveries
– Help with admin
– Help with food bank (now a Community Shop – Nov 22)
To volunteer visit https://volunteerwakefield.org/…/lightwaves-next-generation…
Let’s do what we can to show just how much #WakefieldCares ?
27 March 2020
CORONAVIRUS – COVID-19 – UPDATE No. 1
Closure of all fitness and leisure services
We desperately did not want to close our leisure centre services, but given the government’s subsequent requirement for all Fitness Gyms and Leisure Centres to close at midnight on the 20th March, we are now closed for all fitness and leisure activities. This will remain closed until further notice.
We are in the process of developing roles for voluntary helpers in the community centre. As soon as we have details on these we will pass on the information.
We will do our best to keep posting information and messages via our Facebook and website pages.
Thank you on behalf of all the staff, volunteers and trustees for all your support and please continue to keep safe.
If you have any concerns regarding this, you can contact the centre on 01924 360158 or email [email protected]
21 March 2020
Christmas Fundraiser & Get Together
Tuesday 17 December 2019
In association with Next Generation, Young Lives, Wakefield Stand Up to Racism, Well Women Centre and The Grand Banqueting Suite we invite you to our Christmas fundraising event for two causes, the local food banks and Wakefield Children in Care.
Items we need for the food banks are: Rice, oil, tinned tomatoes, sugar, tea, coffee, rice pudding, cuppa soup, UHT milk, Cereal, Soup, Pasta, Lentils, beans and pulses, tinned fruit, biscuits, fruit juice.
Toiletries – deodorant, toilet paper, shower gel, shaving gel, shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, tooth paste, hand wipes
Household items – laundry liquid detergent, laundry powder, washing up liquid
Feminine products – sanitary towels and tampons
Baby supplies – nappies, baby wipes and baby food.
The food banks we will be supporting are Wakefield Street Kitchen, Wakefield City of Sanctuary, St Georges, St Catherines and The Well.
Items we need for Children in Care, which are mainly made up of teenagers, would be things we can wrap and put under the Christmas tree, such as; deodorants, shower gel, shaving gel, shampoo, make up, chocolates, sweets, hats, gloves, scarfs, shocks anything nice you can think of.
Food or item donations can be left anytime at Lightwaves reception during opening hours.
We hope you can all support us in any way you can and looking forward in seeing you there if you can make it.
Local Community Meeting
The next College Grove and Pinderfields community meeting is to be held Wednesday 11 December 2019, starting at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at Lightwaves and they are for local people who like to discuss ideas, problems, developments with the aim to improve the quality of life in the area.
Eid Family Fun Day
Come and join us! – Saturday 24 August 2019
Team Lightwaves is Fundraising
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge – Sunday 18 August 2019
In partnership with Next Generation Youth and Community Project and The Well Women Centre we are assembling a team to take on the The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. This is to help raise funds in aid of Lightwaves Leisure and Community Centre.
These funds will assist in; the purchase of new equipment that is much needed to benefit our valued users, a defibrillator, and to help provide more activities to help address social isolation for local women in our community.
For more information or to get involved please contact us – email [email protected] or telephone 01924 360158
To donate online please visit our online donation page at wonderful.org. 
