What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds residents interested in taking advantage of free daily sport and fitness sessions can now sign up to take part. The pre-registration phase for Leeds City Council’s new sport and health pilot ‘Leeds Let’s Get Active’ has now started for anyone keen to take part in free sessions
A team of cycling enthusiasts from NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group cycled over 300 miles on Sunday to raise money for Leeds Children’s Hospital. The team, led by Clinical Chief Officer of the CCG Dr Andy Harris, each completed all or part of the gruelling 100km
What’s the link between alopecia, robots and a social club in Beeston? The answer is last night’s Bettakultcha event. Describing the mechanics of Bettakultcha makes it sound dull, as compare Ivor Tymchak put it “like a PowerPoint car crash”, but actually it’s a very entertaining and thought-provoking evening. A
What do you do with a 144 year old unused railway viaduct? According to a group that met recently in Holbeck, you put a park on it. The viaduct snakes through Holbeck crossing Water Lane and Sweet Street, then across the bottom of Domestic Street and the Ingram Distributor
If you join the Green For Go project you could find yourself planting up an allotment, building a bird box or taking part in a community tidy up. Groundwork Leeds have launched the Green for Go project which provides regular environmental learning opportunities for adults with a range of
I haven’t played much golf lately. Stop it, on the back row there… I know what I do on a golf course only very distantly resembles golf. I have been convincing myself that my various aches and pains are not due to old age or over-weight (Mrs B’s favourite
Cottingley Hall Community Centre is to get improvements to its building. In the last 12 months there has been some new blood appointed to the Trustees, the group that manage Cottingley Hall Community Centre. The exciting news is that they are looking at better ways in which to utilise the
Local Councillors in South Leeds have been busy securing local improvements. A new Post Office is to be opened on Domestic Street in Holbeck and a new pedestrian crossing built on Dewsbury Road near Tesco. The Councillors have led a campaign with local residents to keep a Post Office
As you may have gathered over the months, I have always been an advocate of people power. If you think something’s not right, get the community to do something about it or to put pressure on those with the power to change things. This begs the question: who does
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Community Reporters Course run by South Leeds Life spending ten weeks learning skills in news story writing, opinion pieces and how to write the perfect headline. Held at the new South Leeds Community Radio headquarters we were quickly thrown in the