What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It was an emotional evening at Aagrar on Thursday night (8 December 2016) as the 7th Hamara Community Awards were given out, a new anti-bullying campaign was launched with Asian Express and Hamara bid farewell to their CEO Hanif Malik. Hanif moved from the private sector twenty years ago to
Young people in Leeds who struggle with mainstream learning will soon be able to benefit from a pioneering education facility created from shipping containers. Planning officials gave the go-ahead for The Works charity, based in the emerging South Bank area of Leeds, to provide an “eco school” – a solar-powered,
You may be surprised to hear that I don’t watch a lot of programmes on Channel 5, but there was a very interesting film about housing, homelessness and poverty on this week. Fifty years ago the then newly formed housing charity Shelter sent a photographer, Nick Hedges, to document the
Asda has applied for planning permission to permanently extend their trading hours at their store on Old Lane, Beeston. The store opened in July 2015 and was given a temporary 12 month extension of hours to 6am-midnight (Monday to Saturday) and 10am-10pm (Sundays and Bank Holidays). They are now seeking
Local councillor, Elizabeth Nash, welcomes the no-nonsense approach Leeds City Council have taken towards fly-tipping in the area. Court action was taken by the Council to fine a local van owner who had been using his van to illegally fly-tip rubbish in the Telfords area. Alex Wormald of Cowper Street,
With less than two weeks to go until the closing date of their community share offer, Leeds Community Homes has attracted 80% of the investment that they require to go ahead with their first people powered homes project. Leeds Community Homes is seeking to raise a minimum of £200,000 –
Health For All has been working to help communities help themselves for 25 years in South Leeds. I talked to Chief Executive Pat McGeever about the organisation’s journey. Today Health For All run numerous services from five centres across South Leeds, but it all started 25 years ago in an
Here’s our video report from Cockburn School‘s production of Billy Elliot The Musical which runs from 6-9 December 2016.
A major investment of more than £180million in bus services in Leeds to double passenger numbers within 10 years and improve air quality has been proposed and as reported by South Leeds Life yesterday, the improvements include a new Park and Ride facility at Stourton. The details were revealed as
Last December, the children, families and staff at Lane End Primary School in Holbeck decided that they were going to try to raise funds so that they could buy a stage for their school hall. A massive fundraising effort began – but the target was a very ambitious £6,000 as