What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Local MP Hilary Benn (Leeds Central) has backed a scheme to help people in Leeds save money on their energy bills, saying: “This scheme gives people the chance to do something for themselves about fuel bills. The more people join the scheme, the bigger the savings can be.” The scheme
The Get IT Together project, a partnership with Citizens Online and BT, supported by Leeds City Council and the Nominet Trust is looking for volunteers with basic computer skills. Following training they will then help run basic IT sessions for people who have would like to get online for the
Hannah Smith, a curate at Leeds Minster who lives in Beeston, will be running the London Marathon next Sunday. “This is my first marathon and it’s both exciting and very scary! “I’ve decided to raise money for a local charity that I’m involved in. Mon ey you give will go
Forty Four runners turned up for the third weekly Parkrun in Cross Flatts Park on Saturday morning. Runners of all ages and abilities turned up to run a measured and timed 5 km course around the park. Some runners clearly knew each other and many didn’t, but that didn’t disturb
The other month I was playing on the course where in some misguided moment I became a member. Let’s call it The Lion’s Lair because I may wish to continue my membership and my confessions could well result in my money being refused in future. The course is a typical
You won’t need a mountain bike for this workshop which promises to teach you the “Shabby Chic” basics. SLATE, the charity behind the Feel Good Furniture Shop in Hunslet and the Feel Good Cafe at Hillside in Beeston, have teamed up with the No Stripping Studio to lay on this
Staff and volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have given 20,000 people from across Leeds and Yorkshire Access to Nature since April 2010. Skelton Grange Environment Centre in South Leeds is celebrating the fact that it has received well over 20,000 visitors to the centre since 2010 as part of
So. Farewell then, Margaret Thatcher as EJ Thribb (17½) would say in Private Eye. Keith’s mum can’t get re-housed because you sold off all the council houses and didn’t allow councils to replace them. Well you didn’t really think I’d write about anything else this week did you? We had
With households under ever more financial pressures, Advice Leeds have published two guides to services in the city that can help you. It is noticeable that there are not many walk in advice centres in South Leeds, but there are websites and phonelines to help. These cover all sorts of
The Council’s Inner South Area Committee has published its March Newsletter. The Committee is made up of the nine Councillors from Beeston & Holbeck, City & Hunslet and Middleton Park wards. As well as details of the Committee’s last meeting, the newsletter contains local good news stories including South Leeds