What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A leading local councillor has backed our campaign to tackle dog owners who fail to scoop up after their pets in south Leeds’ streets and public places. Yesterday South Leeds launched our Scoop It Up campaign, which aims to try and educate people to pick up their pet’s dog muck – and
Leeds-based social entrepreneurs Gill Coupland and Rob Greenland are aiming to tackle the number of empty houses in Leeds with an event at Beeston’s The Greenhouse next month. Gill and Rob were inspired to start the project after moving to Beeston. On their super new ‘Leeds Empties’ blog, they write:
A nice personal piece on the election and Holbeck in Bloom from the Voice of Holbeck blog
Come along and join the Friends of Middleton Park tomorrow (Tuesday, 17 April) at an open meeting of the Steering Group at Middleton Methodist Church Hall, Hopewell View, where we will be discussing the business of the Friends, writes Alan Shaw. After the (short) meeting we will be hearing from Councillor
“We have old people, a disabled girl in a wheelchair and young children living in this street. It is very hard to walk on the footpath as dogs have always fouled in front of every house. No-one on our street has a dog. We need help to sort this problem.
South Leeds Life reader Louise Drury used to work at Middleton-based charity Health for All managing its children’s project and has since worked with disadvantaged kids in Namibia and is looking to live in South Africa. In a special guest post, she writes about the differences in culture and issues regarding, children, education and poverty…
Good morning, south Leeds! We’re back from our little Easter break and our slight lull in filing stories – thanks to Jeremy Morton, Dave Florence, Christine Robinson-Perkins, Deacon Al Henry and Jason Slack for their contributions over this period. We thought it’d be good to round-up some of what’s been going on
Residents of Beeston’s award-winning sustainable development, Greenhouse, recently supported the annual Earth Hour event by revelling in the simplicity of going back to basics. Turning their lights off for the evening, the Greenhouse community joined non-residents to join in on the fun by playing board games, a pub quiz and
This wonderfully atmospheric photograph of historic Holbeck Cemetery at dusk was captured by reader Hilary Denham – aka Leedslily on photo sharing platform Flickr. You can catch more of Leedslily’s photos of Holbeck Cemetery on the South Leeds Life group Flickr pool. And there’s a fabulous set of her Beeston
CALLING ALL COMMUNITY GROUPS! DO YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR GRANT APPLICATION TO COMMUNITY FIRST? Community First is a government programme which provides small grants from £250 up to £2,500 to community groups in our area. A panel of local people and councillors has been established in order to consider