Year: 2016

Virgin Media volunteers help dig allotment

Last week, volunteers from Virgin Media got stuck in with the local community and helped to dig a new allotment at Broomfield South SILC (Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre), the all-age school for special needs pupils in south Leeds. A 20-strong volunteer team from across the UK – including Sheffield Derbyshire,

Organise your own safe Play Street

On Saturday 19 March 2016 Leeds Play Network in Hunslet hosted a workshop on how to organise your own on street play session. Co-founder and director of ‘Playing Out‘ Alice Ferguson had travelled up from Bristol were the temporary road closures first begun in 2009. Alice explained how she and

Firewalking fundraiser for Mencap at White Rose

White Rose Shopping Centre is staging a spectacular fiery fundraising event for Mencap on Sunday 10 April 2016. A sponsored Firewalk will be held outside the main entrance adjacent to Next between 4.30 and 7pm. White Rose Marketing Manager Francesca Simpson, said: “We would like to encourage as many people