Holbeck Together has launched the Holbeck Together Business Alliance, a new partnership bringing together well-known Leeds businesses to support the charity’s mission to reduce inequality, strengthen community resilience and expand opportunities for residents in Holbeck.
Since forming earlier this year, member businesses have contributed time, skills and financial support, helping Holbeck Together increase capacity, expand services and improve long-term sustainability.
The inaugural meeting, hosted by KPMG, highlighted the Alliance’s impact so far. Support includes corporate volunteers at community events, financial pledges for year-round activities, contributions to seasonal campaigns providing food parcels and presents for children at Christmas, and strategic advice on business development and financial resilience.
Elissa Newman, Chief Officer of Holbeck Together, said: “The support that has emerged through this Business Alliance has been phenomenal. Every business at the inaugural meeting has helped us in ways that are both practical and life-changing for our community. The Alliance moves us closer to reducing our reliance on grants and developing sustainable investment so we can continue delivering the services Holbeck deserves.”
She added: “People in Holbeck have a 12-year lower life expectancy than people living in Harewood – a distance of just 10 miles. As a charity working in an area facing some of the starkest health inequalities in the city, this Alliance strengthens our resilience, our capacity and our ambition to reverse this statistic.”
Jonathan Morgan, who helped bring the businesses together, said: “Holbeck Together is one of the most agile, community-focused organisations in Leeds. The Business Alliance brings the skills, networks and collective energy of the private sector to support an organisation making a real difference. This partnership is already generating tangible value – not only financially, but in shaping a stronger, more sustainable future for Holbeck.”
Businesses involved in the first meeting included Addleshaw Goddard, Apple HR, Boutique Media, Corstophine & Wright, Creative Space Management, Crowne Plaza Leeds, Design Tonic, Fox Lloyd Jones, Jonathan Morgan, KPMG, Leeds Building Society, Leeds United Football Club, Lucinda Yeadon, Northern Monk, Pierre Angulaire, SCC, Town Centre Securities, Yorkshire Design Group, Yorkshire Property Charitable Trust and Zerum.
Holbeck Together hopes to grow membership and is inviting businesses from all sectors to join the Alliance to help drive long-term, positive change in the Holbeck community.
For more information or to enquire about joining, contact Elissa Newman at e.newman@holbecktogether.org or Claire Holmes at claire@holbecktogether.org
