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Inside this email:
- Help with the cost of living
- Need someone to contact BITMO on your behalf?
- BITMO’s Annual General Meeting – You Are Invited
- Looking for a new job, training, education?
- Free English & Maths Tutors for Year 4 & 5
- September in BITMO’s GATE
- Belle Isle Repair Café
- Leeds Local Plan
Help With the Cost of Living
Hello! My name is Amelia and I am the new Cost of Living Support Officer at BITMO. I can help you with any problems you have with your benefits or debt. I also want to make sure all tenants are taking advantage of BITMO and are aware of the services we provide like free meals and school uniform.
To start with, I am contacting tenants affected by the Universal Credit two-child benefit cap. If you claim Universal Credit, have more than two children and one of more of them were born after April 2017, the benefits you receive for your children are reduced. We know this causes real hardship for families in Belle Isle. If you are affected by the two-child benefit cap I will be trying talk to you soon to see what support we can provide. You can contact me by filling in this quick form. Cost of living 2025 – Belle Isle TMO
If you have any other issues in relation to your benefits and would like me to complete a benefit check to make sure you are claiming everything you are entitled to, you can email me at Amelia.Ward@belleisletmo.co.uk or phone me on 07851 102386.
Please note I can only help BITMO households.
Need someone to contact BITMO on your behalf?
BITMO staff can’t discuss your tenancy – repairs, rents or any problems you are having – with anyone who isn’t on your tenancy agreement unless you give us permission. This is also called “advocacy consent”.
You may want to give advocacy consent to a trusted friend, relative, or support agency so they can discuss your tenancy on your behalf. Find out how you can do this on our website.
On the same page you can also see the tenancy agreement, and request permission for:
- Having pets or animals
- Making alterations to your home
- Taking in lodgers or sub-letting
- Running a business from your home
- Having a mobility scooter
BITMO’s Annual General Meeting – You Are Invited
BITMO’s Annual General Meeting is on Thursday 25 September at BITMO’s GATE. There will be food available from 5pm. At 6pm there will be a performance from Kittc M. Autorité, who performed at the Belle Isle Gala with the Safina Choir. This is followed by South Leeds, a short film made by local resident Alan Reynolds, who will introduce it. There will also be some formal business, including election of tenants to BITMO’s Board and approval of the Reports and Financial Statements 2024-25 .
If you plan to come, please let Karen.Hoole@belleisletmo.co.uk (0113 378 2188) know, so that we can plan the seating and catering.
Looking for a new job, training, education?
Or looking to volunteer? Event at BITMO’s GATE on Thursday 11 September. There will be employers like Greggs and Mears, experts on training and education opportunities, ways to start volunteering. Please tell anyone who is looking for a new job, training or education to come along.
Free English & Maths Tutors for Year 4 & 5
Is your child going into Year 4 or 5 this September? Or Year 6 and working at that level?
BITMO is really proud to be able to offer free tuition to Belle Isle primary school children with a free hot meal at BITMOs GATE every Tuesday for the fourth year running.
Children in Years 4 and 5 (and possibly Year 6) – along with their family – can also get a hot meal from 3.30pm every Tuesday at the GATE. The food is cooked by our food-safety trained volunteers, from a menu that is both healthy and popular with children. You are welcome to come for the meal and not stay for the tuition. Examples of what we serve are wraps filled with freshly roasted chicken, lettuce, sweetcorn and mayo one week and burgers, home-made wedges and beans followed by fruit cocktail and ice cream.
The free tuition is provided by fully qualified tutors with primary school experience, backed up by supervised volunteer tutors and has a focus on English and Maths. Tuition takes place from 4.15 – 6pm. As there is a limit on numbers attending, priority will be given to BITMO tenants.
If you are not sure, come along for a trial lesson on Tuesday 16 September – free meal from 3.30pm. Meet the tutors and trial lesson 4.15-6pm.
To find out more and to book your child’s place for tuition, please ask in BITMO’s GATE or phone Peter Sutton on 07891 274237
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September in BITMO’s GATE
Here’s the September programme for BITMO’s GATE. Highlights this month include:
* a free theatre performance on Thursday 18th at 7pm. This would cost you about £20 at a theatre.
* employment and training advice four times this month
* Belle Isle Repair Café (see poster below)
Belle Isle Repair Café
Leeds Local Plan
Citizens in Leeds have been invited to give their views on the future of the city, in a Leeds City Council consultation running until 15 September.
The consultation is for the Local Plan, running up to 2042. It is a major document that sets out how the city should develop in the next 17 years. You can find out more and complete the survey here.
https://leedslocalplan.commonplace.is
Contact BITMO
To report a repair call 0113 378 2188.
To make a rent payment, visit the BITMO website rent page or call 0113 378 2187
To report anti-social behaviour, call 0113 378 2181 or email asb.enquiries@belleisletmo.co.uk
If you have financial problems then please contact us for advice on 0113 378 2188 or bitmo.enquiries@belleisletmo.co.uk
Keep up-to-date with BITMO services and local news by visiting the BITMO Facebook Page and the BITMO website.
Belle Isle TMO works in partnership with Leeds City Council to serve the residents of Belle Isle estate.
Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation Limited
Registered under the Co-operative and Communities Benefit Societies Act No.29817R.
Registered Office: Aberfield Gate, Belle Isle, Leeds, LS10 3QH
