Why donate
Peer Support Plus CIO is a charity established, governed, managed, and operated entirely by Volunteers.
We ensure every adult in the Leeds Metropolitan District can participate by pricing our Charity Voting Membership fee at £0 and our services to beneficiaries (Support Groups, Workshops and Courses) at £ FREE.
To achieve that, we operate on a shoestring, providing about 125 sessions for up to 10 people per session each year (250 hours of mental health support) on an annual budget of just £2,000.
That is remarkable value, but we have to raise £2,000 each year through donations and by competing for small grants – when we can find any on offer.
Donate
Please give only what you can afford and if you can, please Gift Aid your donation using the Gift Aid Declaration Form below.
Bank Transfer
We would prefer you to donate fee-free by Bank Transfer or Standing Order direct to our Clubs and Societies Current Account at Virgin Money. Since 2024, Virgin Money has been owned by The Nationwide Building Society, a mutual financial institution owned directly by its members, not shareholders.
Account name Peer Support Plus – Sort Code 05-06-76 – Account Number 31545262
Transaction Reference Please type D for donation and your Name.
Debit or Credit Card
If you prefer to donate by Debit or Credit card please use this Donate via PayPal button:
Gift Aid Declaration
If you pay Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax, please complete the Gift Aid Declaration form below so that Peer Support Plus can claim another 25p from HMRC for every £1 you donate.
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Please choose us as your charity. It won’t cost you a penny.
Thank you
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Thanks to our Supporters
Our Logo
We are local charity serving only the Leeds Metropolitan Distric. Our Logo nods at the three owls featured on the City of Leeds Coat of Arms (see below).
We are immensely grateful to talented Graphic Designer and Illustrator Scarlett Shearwood for gifting us her original art work.
You can view more of Scarlett’s work at Behance.
This Website
WordPress.org
WordPress is powerful, free, open-source website building software designed for everyone, welcoming and inclusive.
It is a CMS (content management system) that shapes content to fit different-sized screens.
In September 2026 WordPress was used for more than 40.7% of 200 million active and maintained internet websites, globally. https://wordpress.org/
Developing this WordPress.org website
To establish and launch Peer Support Plus CIO our volunteer Trustees faced real challenges and developed many new skills.
During the COVID lockdown, Andrew Jones of Wakefield GoWeb (now defunct) generously donated his time, skills, experience, kindness and patience to train our volunteer in WordPress and helped us design and develop this website.
At Peer Support Plus we own our achievements and mistakes. If you find any errors or see opportunities to improve this website please email enquire@peersupportplus.org
WordPress Hosting and Email
Secure (https://) charity webhosting is donated by 34SP.com
https://www.34sp.com/charity-hosting
Their generosity means we only have to pay our annual Registration fee for our Domain peersupportplus.org
WordPress Hosting and Email
In 2020 LCN.com kindly donated free charity web hosting for life, but they charged for essential services such as SSL (HTTPS). 34SP.com does not.
https://www.lcn.com/web-hosting/charity
Video conferencing
In 2026, Zoom allowed us to pay only 50% of their annual Zoom Pro price through its Zoom Cares philanthropy programme.
https://www.zoom.com/en/zoom-cares/#product-main-section
Leeds City Council – Mental Health Services
In 2020 they donated a rent-free room at Lovell Park Mental Health Hub where our weekly in-person Support Group met. LCC closed all three of their mental health hubs in April 2025.
https://www.leeds.gov.uk/adult-social-care/mental-health-services.
We moved to a room at the nearby Little London Community Centre, where Ward Councillors kindly allow Peer Support Plus CIO to rent a room at a significantly reduced weekly rate.
Hire Little London Community Centre
Directions to Little London Community Centre
Leeds City Council 100% Digital Leeds
“Making Leeds the most digitally inclusive city for everyone.”
Trained and supported us several of our volunteers to become Digital Champions and helped us reach out to and engage with people who were digitally excluded. https://leedsdigitalinclusion.com
Grant
From April 2020 Leeds Mind decided to offer only time-limited membership (12 weeks or less) of a Peer Support Group.
With support from Leeds Mind, in April 2020 the national Mind federation awarded us a grant of £310 from their Side-by-Side fund. It helped us with the initial costs of setting up the charity Peer Support Plus CIO and continuing to offer open-ended Peer Support Groups for adults in the Leeds Metropolitan District.
Leeds Mind https://www.leedsmind.org.uk/ Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/
Grant
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership is an ‘Integrated Care System’ working in partnership with NHS organisations, councils, Healthwatch, charities and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector, to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Leeds and five other local places. https://wyhpartnership.co.uk
In December 2020 they awarded Peer Support Plus a £5,000 Grant from the Targeted Prevention Fund which was paid in April 2021. The fund aimed to support those who have been especially disadvantaged during the Covid pandemic. The Grant enabled us to double our Peer Support Group capacity during 2021/22, engaging by Zoom with adults who could not for a variety of reasons attend an in-person Peer Support Group; and reaching out to those who are digitally excluded by loaning them 4G internet-connected tablets.
Grant
On 8 September 2022 we received a Micro-Grant of £1,500 from the Leeds Fund, which is administered by the Leeds Community Foundation.
The Grant was given specifically to support us recruit and train additional Peer Support Group Facilitators to help maintain existing Groups and aim to expand Peer Support Group capacity.
Donations
In 2023 and again in 2025 The Rotary Club of Roundhay awarded us £500 towards our annual operating costs from their fundraising activities. Their Gift helped us continue provide two £ FREE weekly Support Groups open to all adults in the Leeds Metropolitan District. https://roundhayrotaryclub.co.uk