What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
As most people will know this is a social problem that British society has had for a long time. The problem in recent years has become a lot worse. Apparently the problem is more serious than obesity. It’s not that loneliness and isolation is a health problem itself, however
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We’ll start with sad news from Friends of Holbeck Cemetery who report on the removal of their viewing platform. The platform provided possibly the best view in Leeds, but suffered from vandalism