What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new funding programme is providing community projects with the opportunity to access grants of up to £15,000 to increase the number of young people progressing into Higher Education from targeted areas across West Yorkshire. Go Higher West Yorkshire (GHWY) is a partnership of 12 Higher Education providers (colleges and
The HUB Choir returns to Slung Low Theatre‘s Holbeck Underground Ballroom on Tuesday (5 June 2018) and everyone is invited to come and join the singing. As usual people will gather from 6.30pm to share some home cooked food before the singing commences at 7pm. There is free tea and coffee available
South Leeds residents speak out about “nightmarish” and unfair disability rulings Hundreds of south Leeds residents have been hit with recent changes to welfare systems for those unable or less able to work. And whilst the national government claims it’s fighting benefit fraud, growing numbers of people are rising up
Belle Isle TMO Are you wanting to get more active? Join us at The GATE every Wednesday 2:30-3:30pm for chair exercises and table tennis. Sessions start on Wednesday 6 June 2018 for 12 weeks, come and join in and spread the word. Please contact the GATE on (0113) 378 2190
Speak With IT are hosting an event in the GATE on Tuesday 12 June 2018 between 1pm to 3pm. Come along and find out more about the wonderful work Speak With IT charity do. For more information contact James by emailing james.major@speakwithit.org BITMOs GATE is located at Aberfield Gate, off
FREE live music in Middleton Park The Friends of Middleton Park start their musical offering on Sunday (3 June 2018) with Alligator Gumbo playing some cool New Orleans jazz. The band were so popular at last years music festival that the Friends brought them back to do their own concert.
The folks at St Mary’s in Beeston (the church opposite the Co-op on Town Street) are very busy this month, starting with a plant sale and coffee morning on Saturday (2 June 2018). The coffee morning will raise money for St Gemma’s Hospice. The event takes place from 10am-2pm in
Citu hires former BMW manufacturing boss to head up operations of pioneering low-carbon neighbourhoods Sustainable urban developer Citu has appointed Steve Savage, former manufacturing manager at BMW UK, as operations director to oversee the manufacture and construction of its pioneering Climate Innovation District in Leeds’s South Bank. The appointment is
Have you read the June edition of our South Leeds Life newspaper yet? We’ve been distributing copies to community venues throughout LS10 and LS11. Copies are available from libraries, community centres, GP practices, shops and other community venues. Copies are also available at Dewsbury Road Tescos and will be delivered
“Why are they still using plastic like this when it isn’t recycled?” My wife Sally was standing in the kitchen waving a black plastic tray at me that moments earlier had been home to some prawns. It wasn’t the first time I had been on the receiving end of this