What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Food Warehouse has invested more than three quarters of a million pounds in bringing a brand new store to Junction One Retail Park, following the success of the Kirkstall Bridge Shopping Park store. The 9,877 sq ft supermarket opened its doors today (20 August 2019), creating 30 new jobs
Local residents marked the regeneration of Trentham Park in Beeston at an official relaunch event on Saturday (17 August 2019). Under sunny skies, local residents completed a ribbon-cutting ceremony, children played with the new equipment and everyone treated themselves to free ice cream. It followed the installation of a new
Scott Parnell – the civils and drainage supplies specialist – has announced the opening of its new depot in Leeds. This will be the fifth branch for the company, which launched from its Witham Head Office in 2012. It also has branches at Romford, Milton Keynes and Aberdare in Wales.
A new round of public consultation on measures to improve the Armley Gyratory and help transform transport and travel in and around Leeds started last week. Armley Gyratory is a key junction on the Inner Ring Road to the west of Leeds city centre. It is a major entry/exit point
Rowland Road Club in Beeston Hill are holding a car boot sale and community barbecue on Bank Holiday Monday (26 August 2019) – and everyone’s invited! Come grab a bargain, or raise some cash for your unwanted items, or both. The event is part of a summer programme including free
Like good food? Hate waste? Want to save money? South Leeds residents are being invited to sign up for large weekly boxes of so-called ‘freegan’ food (good quality food that would otherwise have been binned), delivering locally, for just £12. The family-sized crates will have different contents each week, but
South Leeds parents are forging ahead with a school uniform scheme – that enables local families to donate, exchange or simply pick up uniforms for their children, all for free. The project – which currently aims to cover all the schools in Beeston, Holbeck and Cottingley – launched last summer,
The annual ‘Leeds Running Day’ is back this Sunday (18 August 2019), with vintage buses and coaches offering free rides all day across south and central Leeds. The beautifully restored vehicles will circulate 10am to 5pm, between Thwaite Mills museum in Stourton, Middleton Railway in Hunslet, Leeds Industrial Museum in
The Friends of Trentham Park in Beeston Hill are this Saturday (17 August 2019) holding an event to mark the reopening of their ‘pocket park’ – and everyone’s invited! The park is a small triangular space in the heart of the dense terraced housing of Beeston Hill, and was until
Asha Neighbourhood Project in partnership with the West Yorkshire Police delivered a series of Safeguarding Awareness workshops for local women, service users and volunteers. The workshops empowered them with the knowledge of their rights and local issues in order for them integrate, improve their English, improve confidence to access universal