What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The acclaimed Hunslet Carr Residents Association are this Thursday (1 December 2016) hosting the first-ever Hunslet Christmas Lights switch-on, featuring carols from a local kids choir. The event is taking place on Balm Road, outside the Arthington Court sheltered housing complex, from 5pm – when the nearby Hunslet Carr Primary
A new African music and culture event launches at ‘The Holbeck’ this Sunday (27 November 2016) – and the organisers are keen to insist that everyone’s welcome, to come get a taste of Africa. The all-age event will run from 2pm until 12pm, and will feature live music, dance, comedy,
South Leeds youngsters from the ‘Space’ youth groups are next week serving up two ‘Advent’ meals for the local community, to mark the start of the Christmas season – and anyone’s invited. The free, three-course meals are being held on Wednesday 30th November and Thursday 1st December (2016), both at
The volunteer team working to get the unused Holbeck viaduct re-opened to the public are holding a drop-in event this weekend (Saturday 26 November 2016) – for people to come find out more about the project, and in particular get a preview of a ‘proto-feasibility’ report that they hope will
Junior ‘parkrun’ – a new weekly running event for kids and young people – launched in style last Sunday (13 November 2016) in Beeston’s Cross Flatts Park. A mighty 57 youngsters took part in an event that organisers described as ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’. The free 2km event will now take
A Leeds campaign group is inviting residents of south Leeds, and especially Hunslet, to join them to find out about the potential risk of large amounts of toxic waste water – the leftovers from ‘fracking’ operations across northern England – being brought to the area for processing and disposal. The
The Beeston community has continued to pull together in the wake of Sophie Smith’s tragic death last month, with two local mums throwing a fundraising event last weekend (Saturday 5 November 2016) for the funeral. Held at the Tommy Wass pub on Dewsbury Road, the packed all-age event featured food,
Last weekend (Friday 4 November 2016) saw a busy night of boxing at the Hunslet Club, with the home club making a clean sweep of results, including Beeston’s Ismail Khan seeing off a strong challenge to retain his English flyweight title. The night featured 14 bouts, in front of a
Next Sunday (13 November 2016) sees the launch of a weekly ‘Junior’ parkrun – for children and young people – in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston. This follows on the heels of the well-established and popular all-age Cross Flatts parkrun, launched in 2013. Originally founded in 2004, parkrun set out to
This Friday (4 November 2016) sees The Hunslet Club host their annual amateur boxing competition, with young boxers – starting as young as 10 – from Hunslet and across the North battling it out in a series of fights. In what promises to be a night of high-quality boxing, National