What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston Festival is appealing for people to donate their unwanted bikes to a project that will see them revamped and sold on cheaply. With the Tour de France setting off from Leeds just three weeks later, Beeston Festival has a cycling theme this year. The festival takes place on Saturday
Politicians, senior officers and local residents were on hand to welcome the Middleton Park neighborhood policing team to their new home at the St George’s Centre in the heart of Middleton. Inspector Chris Bowen who has charge of our three wards in South Leeds introduced PC Matt Pashley and Sergeant
The Friends of Stank Hall Barn have become Friends of South Leeds Life. Sue Ottley-Hughes from the group has written this fascinating historical overview of this corner of South Leeds: During recent archaeology field walking on the paths in and around the Stank Hall and Barn site by the Friends of
Saturday (5th April 2014) saw the fourth annual charity football match on the fields of the Old Cockburn Sport Hall, in Beeston. Every year the young people who attend the Old Cockburn Sports Hall Youth Club, play against a staff team of Youth Workers to raising money for Children in
SATURDAY 5TH APRIL catch ‘THE DREAMS UK’ at Holbeck WMC, Jenkinson Lawn, LS11 9QX, Telephone 0113 226 0808. Doors OPEN 1900 show STARTS 2000. £3 on the door! All money raised donated to AMBERS AUTISM AWARENESS! Come down for a night of cabaret, laughs and music! Anything could happen on
I went to Cross Flatts Park yesterday. I didn’t want to go, it was cold and grey, but there was some art on and I thought it would be ‘good for me’. We previewed Life Boat on South Leeds Life a few days ago. I think it’s an installation,
A £50k programme to improve Holbeck Moor playground has been completed and been opened by local Councillors. Councillors David Congreve and Adam Ogilvie (Beeston & Holbeck) were joined by pupils from the nearby Ingram Road Primary School to open the new facilities. The improvements, completed by the Council’s Parks
Anti-bedroom tax campaigners in Leeds are set to take to the streets of the city centre again on Saturday (April 5 2014) to protest against the policy a year after its introduction. A demonstration marking the introduction of the bedroom tax last year attracted over 1,000 people. The demonstration
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week in Middleton Park. The Friends of Middleton Park have posted these photos of two of the panels created by local schoolchildren for the pillars of the main gate.
In a bid to find out how grown-ups can break the ice with others, The Big Lunch has asked a group of local school children for their top tips on how to make friends. The Big Lunch visited Middleton St Mary’s Primary School in South Leeds to find out