What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Gold lettering on black has been replaced by white lettering on navy blue as Leeds City Council has replaced heritage trail signs installed by Holbeck in Bloom with new corporate signs. The black signs were installed last year as part of Holbeck in Bloom’s Matthew Murray Trail linking Holbeck Moor
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 Beeston at the Sikh Gudwara (temple) on Lady Pit Lane. If you need a warm up before bonfire night this weekend, watch the video from GNNSJ
It’s that time of the year again when we start thinking about Christmas. It’s difficult to imagine some children and young people won’t get a gift at Christmas. The truth is that some areas in Leeds have families that don’t have enough resources to buy presents. As a charity, The
White Rose Supports Local Creative Talent in Celebration of Bonfire Night White Rose Shopping Centre is adding extra sparkle to Bonfire Night this year by sponsoring the Middleton Park and Rothwell Springhead Park events, which have both enlisted the help of their local schools to design a poster for the
It is not often that we get the chance as a city to decide on a major regeneration scheme on a really important site, but that is exactly what is happening on the south bank of the River Aire. The South Bank Regeneration Initiative covers an area of land as
I went along to check how rehearsals were going for the Hunslet Club pantomime – Peter Pan. It was late on Saturday afternoon when I arrived and the Club was quiet, the lull between afternoon matches and evening entertainment. I found my way up to the dance studio where twenty
This Friday (4 November 2016) sees The Hunslet Club host their annual amateur boxing competition, with young boxers – starting as young as 10 – from Hunslet and across the North battling it out in a series of fights. In what promises to be a night of high-quality boxing, National
Once again Leeds City Council is organising a free public bonfire and firework display in Middleton Park. The event, sponsored by White Rose Shopping Centre, takes place on Friday (4 November 2016). The bonfire will be lit at 7pm and the fireworks will start at 7:30pm. For safety reasons, please
Belle Isle TMO Have you met the new recruits to the Community and Tenant Support Team yet? Carla, James and Lynne have been joined by Natasha, our admin. Apprentice, and Ashlyn, our new Financial Inclusion Officer. Natasha works full-time in the GATE whilst she’s studying towards an admin. Qualification… so
The much-loved Holbeck social club (formerly the Working Men’s Club) is facing a considerable uphill struggle in the coming months to keep their doors open, having this week been hit with a £28,000 bill to urgently clear out asbestos from the premises. The club is reputedly the oldest WMC in