What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hello, I’m Martyn White. I’ve started the Community Journalism course today and it seems interesting. I retired last year and was trying to decide what to do with my spare time. For a while I’ve been learning how to operate a computer.Quite a bit of my time is spent reading
Pictured above are some of the local residents who are about to become community correspondents for South Leeds Life! This afternoon we’ve been holding the first session of our 10-week community correspondents course at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre. Course participants got a preview about what the course will offer, including
Members from a number of community groups across South Leeds have met to form a new network. The meeting, at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre in Middleton last night, saw local residents agree to form the South Leeds Community Network, which aims to help local groups access information to support their
The hunt is on to find the best and worst examples of street maintenance in the UK! Whether you’re quietly fuming about cracked and broken pavements or if you love the street where you live, this is the opportunity to make your nomination for the Living Streets’ State of Our
Runa Hanifa, a health development worker at Asha Neighbourhood Project, on Stratford Street has sent us the following posters on events at Asha, a local community organisation working with South Asian women and children in South Leeds. Women-only swimming: Healthy eating sessions: Women’s walking group:
South Leeds residents will tonight come together to form a support network to encourage new and existing community groups to continue and expand. South Leeds Community Network aims to help community groups access information to support their activities, showcase local projects and bring groups together to share their work and ideas
A busy week at the Hunslet Club for half term with Activity Camp for 5 to 14 year olds and a Halloween Party for Toddlers on Wednesday, then on Saturday it’s our Fireworks Display. Numbers are strictly limited so arrive early to avoid dissapointment. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBahMpDoQoE]
‘Retired’ minister and festival organiser Jean Mortimer send us details of a recent Scarecrow Bible Festival in Belle Isle … As part of our harvest celebrations we held a Scarecrow Bible Festival at The United Reformed Church in South Leeds (that’s the new building in Nesfield Road). Adults, children and young
South Leeds Life has received this nostalgic and heartwarming guest post from the Rev Jean Mortimer on her return to South Leeds. I first came to South Leeds in 1966 when I was ordained and inducted as the minister of Belle Isle Congregational Church, Nesfield Road, and the assistant minister
Police are appealing for information following a serious assault on a taxi driver in Beeston in the early hours of this morning. City and Holbeck CID would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident which took place at about 3.55 am on Heathcroft Drive in Beeston. It occurred