What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Holbeck where there’s been quite a kerfuffle about the plans for Temple Mill online this week. First the Council put out a press release ahead of
Children are being invited to put on their Santa suits and snowman onesies and take part in a dash to help raise money for young people with learning disabilities. The Santa Dash, covering two laps of the White Rose Shopping Centre mall, will be held to raise money for Mencap
Local residents, including pupils from Park View Primary Academy, gathered for a simple Remembrance Day event last week (11 November 2014) in the new community garden outside the Church of the Holy Spirit, on Tempest Road in the heart of Beeston Hill. Local vicar Lindsey Pearson led the ceremony –
Simon Forster from the St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston has been in touch about this year’s production (Oh yes he has!): Have you ever wondered what your cat would say if it could talk? Or what life as a cobbler would be like? Or maybe you’ve always wanted to
Vivienne Bate writes: Although I’ve lived in Beeston since 1940, it wasn’t until 2000 that I became involved in local affairs. There was an event about “How You Want Your Neighbourhood to Develop”, where various interest groups had information stalls, and that’s where I came across Beeston in Bloom. They’d
Long-awaited proposals to re-open the unused Holbeck rail viaduct as a public walkway are hopefully taking root at last, with a major public meeting due this week. Those coordinating the scheme have been talking with the current owners, Network Rail – and the latter have now requested a full project
Ten year old Jenny Murgatroyd has winning ways when it comes to designing a Christmas card. Her picture of Mr and Mrs Snowman around a Christmas tree was judged the winner of a competition organised by The Hunslet Club to find a design for their official fund raising card for
A new project is set to start in January on the Parkwood estate in Beeston The ‘Make it Work’ project is a new and exciting programme run by Social Skillz UK: a social enterprise organisation that works with individuals, aged 16 years and over, who are in need of support
Leeds City Council’s Executive Board will meet this week on Wednesday (19 November 2014) when several South Leeds issues will be on the table. First up is the ongoing discussion about the future of community centres. Old Cockburn Sports Hall in Beeston is one of 10 centres under discussion with
A new post-16 academic sixth form college is set to open in South Leeds in September 2015. The Elliott Hudson College will be located close to the White Rose Centre with provision for 500 students per year. Parents and students at an information morning at Cockburn School on Saturday (15