What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
5 young people from Beeston and Holbeck are going to Bangkok in April to volunteer in an orphanage and also run a 2 day camp for 80 of the most marginalised children from a slum area in the city. The trip is organised jointly by leaders from the SPACE project and KIDZ KLUB,
Further to the story earlier this month about film footage and recently recovered photos from the Queen’s visit to South Leeds, more particularly the R.W Crabtrees factory, a TV production company is looking for anyone who attended that day or met the Queen, to talk on a documentary to be
Those of you passing through Beeston and Holbeck in recent days may have seen lots of posters springing up in shops, community centres and bus stops advertising the latest event from the SPLASH campaign to reopen South Leeds Sports Centre. The posters are advertising SPLASH’s own ‘Olympic Flame Run’ protest,
West Yorkshire Police have finally released the first artists’ impressions of their plans for a new Holbeck Police HQ off Elland Road. More details on the project here. What do you think of them?
The Hunslet Club in South Leeds has become one of the first pioneering youth clubs in the country to install solar panels to its roof, generating power used at the club during daylight hours and selling back any excess made to the national grid. Greener, friendlier to the environment and
The next meeting of Beeston Forum will take place on Thursday 1st March at 7.30pm at Beeston Village Community Centre, St Anthony’s Drive. The forum will be hosting Stewart Robinson of International Fun Fairs, who will be discussing the Valentines Fair which took place at Elland Road during February. The forum will
Good morning, south Leeds! Here’s a round-up of what’s been making the area tick over on the area’s blogs and news sources: Our friends over at South Leeds Community Radio have a nice shiny new website to shout about – it streams the latest broadcasts live and also has a
The Aberfields and Newhalls Residents Association in Belle Isle invite you to the next meeting of the association, which will be held tonight. At the meeting will be Belle Isle Tenant Management Association to discuss a range of issues and the police to help with anti-social behaviour issues and local
Plans for an incinerator that would burn up to 300,000 tonnes of commercial and industrial waste a year were discussed at a Leeds City Council planning meeting. Waste management specialists Biffa plans is to build a plant at the site of the former Skelton Grange power station near Stourton that would
Local resident Al Garthwaite, from our friends at South Leeds Community Radio, has written this guest post for South Leeds Life on useful ways of keeping warm in the cold: A new programme and information CD, Keeping Warm in Cold Weather, on practical, low-cost ways of keeping warm in cold weather