Category: Beeston

News and events for the Beeston area

Hamara Centre to lead £1.7m work discrimination programme

Youth Futures Foundation have announced a £1.7 million grant to tackle workplace discrimination and support employment opportunities for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in West Yorkshire. The Beeston-based Hamara Centre has been selected to lead the project targeted at young people with Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage living in Leeds

Cockburn students celebrate International Women’s Day

Year 9 students from Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy (CLCA) listened intently to a talk by Gail Weathers, CLCA school governor and local business leader, on International Women’s Day 2024. With inclusivity as the theme of this year’s IWD, Gail emphasised the importance of embracing diversity and equality in all realms

Asha’s Women Together programme boosts self confidence

The Beeston and Holbeck Women Together project are an independent group which ran for one year, formed after Asha Neighbourhood Project was successful in getting a grant from Live Well Leeds in March 2023. During the project 120 women took part in 17 weeks of baking/cooking sessions with existing service

Iftar event brings communities together at Elland Road

Leeds United Football Foundation, working with Beeston’s Hamara Healthy Living Centre hosted a very successful Community Iftar at Elland Road’s Centenary Pavilion on Monday evening (18 March 2024). Not all of the 350 ticket holders were able to make it due to traffic problems on the night, but those that

In Harmony donations will be doubled for one week

Four South Leeds schools could benefit from Opera North’s fundraising push ‘Let Music Inspire’ and donations next week will be doubled. For one week only from Tuesday 19 March, every donation made towards Opera North’s ‘Let Music Inspire’ campaign will be matched pound for pound thanks to the Big Give’s

Community Iftar aims to build respect and unity

Ramadan Mubarak! Beeston Hill Community Association (BHCA) is holding a free Community Iftar Event in collaboration with Hamara Healthy Living Centre on Tempest Road next Monday (25 March 2024) between 5:30-8pm. This will be a wonderful opportunity for friends and neighbours, of all beliefs, to come together to break-fast during