What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new project is highlighting positive photographs of the people and the landscape of Holbeck and Beeston. Looking Good Holbeck and Beeston is about celebrating the area, its diversity and showing what the people who live and work in the area are proud of – a snapshot of daily life and what is
MP Hilary Benn has said provisional proposals to carve up his Leeds Central contituency at the next general election ‘make no sense’. Boundary Commission proposals aimed at reducing the total number of Westminster MPs would see the current Leeds Central constituency – which covers much of ‘inner’ south Leeds and other
In the region of 100 people recently helped to give amateur rugby club Hunslet Warriors a new look. The club beat off competition from 60 other clubs to win £5,000 of makeover money from Super League sponsors Engage Mutual. Volunteers helped to revamp the club’s 20-year-old kitchen facilities, the changing rooms
There’s a whole raft of important public meetings and events in South Leeds this week. As revealed by South Leeds Life last week, there are three public meetings to discuss plans for a new school on the site of the former South Leeds Sports Centre. The meetings are tomorrow (Monday) at
A four- week healthy cookery course is starting in Hunslet on Monday (September 19). If you are interested in finding out more about healthy eating and cooking healthier meals, why not come along to these healthy cooking sessions? The session runs 10am—12.30pm at St Mary’s Church, Hunslet, (opposite the Penny Hill Shopping Centre).
South Leeds Life is a collaborative blog. Eight of us, some linked to organisations, some not, got together last November to start writing about South Leeds. We get together every month or so to see how it’s going, share ideas, ask questions and generally see how we can improve things.
The Friends and Relatives of Hunslet Cemetery group are campaigning for better security at the vandalised cemetery. They’ve set up an online petition and their facebook group has more than 1,200 members. The Friends have set aside Saturday, 17th September, 10am – noon, to do litter picking, pruning and bulb planting
CIARA held its meeting at the Ingram Gardens Community Centre on Tuesday 13 September. The evening involved its normal bimonthly public meeting followed by the Annual General Meeting. In attendance were councillors Angela Gabriel and David Congreve. Also in attendance was Sergeant John Aldred on behalf of the West Yorkshire
Three public meetings are being held next week to discuss proposals for a potential new primary school for Beeston and Holbeck children on the site of the South Leeds Sports Centre. The meetings will take place next Monday at the Hamara Centre at 2pm, Tuesday at Tunstall Road Community Centre at 5.30pm
The back end of Hurricane Katia caused branches to come down on Holbeck Moor – glad I wasn’t sat in that seat when that branch broke! More details how the winds affected Leeds can be found here.