Year: 2018

Veteran Leeds band in Beeston for cancer gig

Rowland Road Social Club in Beeston Hill are on Saturday 17 November hosting a charity gig with veteran Leeds band ‘Clandestine Root’ – raising funds for St Gemma’s Hospice and The Teenage Cancer Trust. 9-piece band ‘Clandestine Root’ have been around Leeds since the 1960s, playing a wide range of

Dance boosts confidence at Reach Primary

On Friday 26 October the children at Reach Primary Learning Centre in Beeston performed their whole school dance to an appreciative audience of parents and carers. The children at Reach have been either temporarily or permanently excluded from their mainstream schools. They have a range of different social, emotional and

Foodbank to share new Fareshare warehouse

Two groups fighting food poverty in Leeds have opened a new shared warehouse in Beeston thanks to a grant from Asda’s “Fight Hunger, Create Change” programme. The warehouse, on the Parkside industrial estate, comes complete with two huge inflatable chiller rooms for fresh food and a fork lift truck to