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
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
In July 2017, the Secretary of State for Transport confirmed the preferred route for the new High Speed Rail line (HS2) from Crewe to Manchester and the West Midlands to Leeds (known as Phase 2b). The route will come into Leeds via Woodlesford, using the rail corridor past the Freightliner
Police are investigating a serious sexual assault outside St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck on Sunday night (27 May 2018). An area behind the centre was taped off for crime scene investigators. The centre is in the former church building at the junction of Top Moor Side and Domestic Street.
Students at Leeds College of Building are gaining hands-on construction experience after visiting their new £13-million Hunslet campus site. Main contractor, Clugston Construction, started work on the foundations and ground works last October. Since then, a total of 186 student site visits and 14 group tours have been organised up
An exhibition based on local people’s memories of Hunslet and Stourton opens on Thursday at Hunslet Library, off Church Street. Communities Librarian Rachel Benn writes: Join us to launch this exhibition sharing the memories of people who grew up in the area of Hunslet and Stourton. These memories are people’s
I knew very little about Harrison Spinks, the bed manufacturer until this month. Their factory is at the bottom of my street. I knew they made beds for the Queen and that they kept expanding, taking over more and more of the industrial estate, but that was about it until