What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Opera North’s flagship music education project, In Harmony Opera North, has won the award for ‘Best Classical Music Education Initiative’ at the Music Teacher Awards, sponsored by Classic FM. In Harmony Opera North launched in January 2013 and is the only In Harmony programme that is delivered by an
My visit to Abbey House Museum today (5 February 2014) was pretty interesting. Considering that I had spent quite a bit of time there already. I took part in a photography project led by two professional photographers: Mindy Goose, Mat Dale and another young person called Steven. Today’s visit
The Inner South Area Committee has organised day of information, workshops and entertainment for older people at Leeds Civic Hall on Monday 3 March 2014. The event will take place in the Civic Hall’s banqueting suite and include: Tai Chi Tour of Civic Hall Entertainment Information stalls Reminiscence Meditation
The Hunslet Club is set to offer new volunteer opportunities for local residents thanks to Barclays Spaces for Sports, which has awarded the charity a grant of £23,414. Barclays Spaces for Sports is a community sports programme which uses the power of sport to help young people develop the confidence
On Wednesday (12 February 2014) the Connexions South Team are opening a new drop-in at Hillside on Beeston Road (opposite the Greenhouse and just up from St Luke’s Primary School). At the drop in young people in the south of the city will be able to speak to a
The HUGO bus will be in Belle Isle on Monday and Tuesday this week (10-11 February 2014) helping people to get online. If you’re reading this you are probably fairly confident on the web, but perhaps you know someone who’s not online, or maybe you got a tablet for
On Wednesday (12 February 2014) Leeds’ newest art gallery, the Tetley, will host an exhibition of work produced in collaboration with local community groups from South Leeds. The exhibition has been called Tetley Feast, inspired by the Hunslet Feast, a community festival that ran for over 100 years. The
Speaking at Beeston Community Forum last night (6 February) Stewart Robinson from International Fun Fairs said it was possible that 2014 would be the last Valentine’s Fair at Elland Road. The fair started 21 years ago in the city centre and proved so popular that it quickly outgrew the
Our dog died last week, it was very sad, but at 13 1/2 she’d had a good innings. Meg was a lovely Border Collie, eager, intelligent and very loyal. Some of you will be saying she was only a dog, it’s not as though you lost a family member.
The Council’s Inner South Area Committee met last night (5 February 2014) approving a range of grants and reviewing their work programme, as well as hearing from residents during the Open Forum. £5,000 was approved, in principle, for Health For All to carry out a feasibility study into the