What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This week (Tuesday 27 March 2018) saw a packed-out commemoration service for Jimmy Brogden – a characterful and much-loved Hunslet man and acclaimed sportsman, who recently passed away aged 95 following a short illness. Jimmy was born in Hunslet in January 1923, attended Hunslet Moor Junior and Senior School, then
This Sunday (18 March 2018) sees St Luke’s church in Holbeck/Beeston host their annual International Meal, when 100+ local people from all backgrounds will pitch in and share food from around the world together. Any local residents are invited to come to the church (on Malvern Road, LS11 8PD) for
This Friday (9 March 2018) sees Speak With IT – a Yorkshire charity supporting people with aphasia – at the White Rose Shopping Centre holding a ‘Talkathon’ competition event, for anyone to enter. Entrants to the Talkathon will pick any topic, then will be timed talking on the topic for
Major work is under way on the Garnets pocket park in Beeston, and the next door Tunstall Road playground has been removed (to become relocated onto the Garnets space) – but residents have expressed anger that the work has been conducted with little or no warning or consultation. The playground
People from across Hunslet, Belle Isle and south Leeds are rallying to raise funds for popular local lad Jason Pepper who – aged just 27 – is fighting a losing battle with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Jason – who grew up and lives in Belle Isle, attended
Local residents are urging others in their community to join an “empowering and friendly” exercise class in Hunslet – called Breathe Easy – or face the risk of losing it. The British Lung Foundation has been running the classes for anyone with breathing difficulties, such as COPD or asthma, since last
Hunslet campaigners have called a public meeting – on Tuesday 20 February 2018 - to discuss the controversial Park and Ride scheme pencilled in for Stourton. The proposed scheme will see a carpark with space for 1100 cars built on fields just off junction 7 of the M621, behind Hunslet
South Leeds women are fighting to save a free community sports programme that many of them say has changed their lives. The project has been running at Hamara for 5 years, featuring Zumba and dance, yoga, aerobics, basketball, swimming, walking and more throughout the week. Nearly a thousand local women
100+ Holbeck residents gathered again this week (Tuesday 16 January 2018) with Council and Police officials, and others – for another heated community forum about the ‘Managed Zone’ (also known as the Managed Approach’). This controversial scheme permits on-street sex work in a designated non-residential area between Holbeck and the
Beeston Hill has in the past weeks suffered a much-noted spike in car break-ins, affecting dozens of local households – and whilst residents are upset that little seems to have been done to tackle it, West Yorkshire Police are appealing for help to crack the crimes. The spate of these