What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
New grants worth £262,500 have been announced to support the expansion of the successful Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) programme across Leeds, with five new ‘pathfinder’ sites receiving grants. Slung Low, who work in Holbeck, are amongst five successful third sector organisations across the city awarded the ABCD community grants.
A problem property linked to drug dealing that blighted the lives of residents in a Leeds street has been shut down following joint work by the police and council. Officers from the Leeds South Neighbourhood Policing Team worked with Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team and Housing to provide a catalogue of
Civic buildings in Leeds will be illuminated this week to mark the city reaching the tragic milestone of 2,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic. Landmarks including Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Civic Hall and Leeds City Museum will be lit up from this evening (7 February 2022) until
Piloting a drone over a building site: just one of the latest virtual reality construction training activities that visitors can sample at the Leeds College of Building stand at this year’s Leeds Apprenticeship Recruitment Fair (LARF). The fair, at the first direct arena on Monday 7 February 2022, marks the
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic collision involving a cyclist in Leeds yesterday. At about 4.10pm on Thursday (3 February 2022) a collision occurred on the B6481 Pontefract Road, at the junction with the A639 Wakefield Road, Stourton, involving a white MAN HGV tractor unit and
The Wellspring Academy Trust, which operates 28 schools across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire including Elements Primary in Middleton, and Springwell Leeds (which includes a setting in Belle Isle), has received the top award at the prestigious National Schools Awards in London. At an event held at the House of Lords, the
Small businesses in Leeds have been handed a new opportunity to claim funding support as they navigate their way through the ongoing financial difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Leeds City Council has already distributed more than £290m worth of assistance to the business and charity sector since the start
Work has started at the former South Leeds golf course on the creation of a 48-hectare country park and green space. Much of the former golf course will be developed as a country park with new woodland planting and pathways. There will also be a ‘Peoples Woodland’, delivered in partnership
The annual Leeds Apprenticeship Recruitment Fair is returning to the First Direct Arena on Monday 7 February 2022 between 2-8pm. With over 80 employers and apprenticeship providers attending, the event continues to be one of the largest apprenticeship recruitment fairs in the north of England. The event, which kicks off