All the members of the Free to Live Personal Budget Peer Support Network are personal budget or direct payments users who live in the Leeds area. We have set up this site to help other people in Leeds who manage their own care – or would like to know more about doing so.

Our informal advice and support is free, impartial and confidential. If we can't give you the answer to a question, we'll let you know who can.

What we do

As well as offering peer support through our helpline and this website, Free to Live also actively engages with Leeds City Council and other social care providers. Free to Live's core members meet monthly to discuss our peer support and consultation work, at an accessible venue in Armley, based at Leeds Centre for Integrated Living. The meetings are informal discussions, sometimes involving lunch and other activities. We also sometimes have ad hoc get-togethers to discuss other things.

Join the network!

We're always interested in hearing from people who would like to join the network. You just need to live in Leeds, and be a personal budget or direct payments user - and confident enough to be able to advise other people (you don't have to be an expert!). Monthly meetings are optional - you can just ask to be kept on the mailing list so you know what's happening!

If you would like to join the network you can find all our details on our contact page.

About this website

This site was developed by Chrobis, a Leeds-based web design company, in partnership with Free to Live and Leeds City Council Adult Social Care. It is independent of the council. Free to Live cannot give legal advice. Where we can't answer a question we will tell you who we think is best placed to provide an answer. We cannot take legal responsibility for the accuracy of our advice, which is informal and subjective. Neither does Leeds City Council accept responsibility for any of the content of this site. The council's involvement extends only so far as contributing funds towards the original development of the site and assistance to the group in adding some initial content under the group's direction.