What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
“For Love or Money” is on at West Yorkshire Playhouse from 26 to 30 September 2017 – catch it if you can. This is such an entertaining romp, I defy anyone to come out of the theatre not smiling. I have long been a fan of Northern Broadsides; all their
The quarterly Holbeck Community Meeting on Tuesday 3 October will discuss Safer Leeds’ ‘Managed Approach’ to prostitution in the area. The meeting, which starts at 7:30pm at St Matthew’s Community Centre, is organised by the Inner South Community Committee. With residents complaints rising over recent months, residents will have to
There’s a lot more than just borrowing books going at our local libraries. South Leeds Life talked to Rachel Benn, Communities Librarian for the south to find out more. In July Leeds Libraries launched the Summer Reading Challenge to encourage children (and parents) to keep reading over the school holidays.
Last month saw the fourth annual Community Camp in Middleton Park, with 45 local residents camping overnight together on the weekend of 16 and 17 September 2017 in the park. Here’s Olga Deumeni Torres’ (aged 11) account: I have been participating in this event for four years, and each year
Nominations are now open for Leeds City Council’s first ever Compassionate City Awards, which are set to take place this December. Anyone wishing to nominate individuals, communities and or organisations who always put others first and deserve to be recognised for their efforts in the local area, has until 20 October
South Leeds Life CIC has published its Annual Report for 2016/17 with details of the activities and finances of the not-for-profit company that publishes South Leeds Life. The report was launched at our first Social Night on Friday 22 September. The report shows increased activity year on year and stronger
A south Leeds community leader is launching an appeal to local schools, businesses, and other supporters – to help equip and restore an impoverished primary school in his homeland of Gambia in West Africa. Yanks Sawo, a well-known leader of the Leeds Gambian community and long-time Beeston resident, is making
On Oskar’s third birthday, he rails against the adult world and decides to remain a child forever. Armed with a heart full of rage, a singing voice that shatters glass, and a seemingly indestructible tin drum, Oskar sets about to reveal the world for what it truly is. However, the world
The Ruth Gorse Academy in Hunslet has been graded as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in an inspection report released today (25 September 2017). The school, which opened three years ago and moved to its new home on Black Bull Street near the Royal Armouries last September, was graded outstanding across all
Hunslet RLFC 32-12 London Skolars Hunslet RLFC rounded off a poor season with some sunshine as they won the League 1 Shield, a competition designed for the bottom 8 teams in League 1. Photos by Paul Johnson / Phoenix Photography The spectre of a fruitless season spurred Hunslet on as