What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
An inspirational eight-year-old from Middleton is proving that kindness, determination and courage can make a huge difference in the lives of others. Harper, who has autism, is proudly representing Leeds in the Junior Miss Glamour pageant based in Kent, and is now hoping to go all the way to the
Holbeck’s theatre company Slung Low warmly invites you to join them for Flying High: Creating Flags of Awe & Wonder, a very special flag-making project for our times, which visually and colourfully captures and celebrates all that is AWE-some and WONDER-full about our Holbeck and South Leeds communities! We are
We are delighted to share the successful completion of the first two courses delivered as part of the Survive & Thrive Comic Relief Project at Asha. Over 25 women took part in empowering workshops covering Personal Finance & Household Budgeting; and CV Writing, Job Search & Interview Skills. Over the
Two young people from South Leeds are hoping to take part in a life-changing Outward Bound residential in Scotland — but they need the support of their local community to make it happen. Jaden and Sonny, from Holbeck, have been offered the opportunity to attend the programme, which focuses on
South Leeds — get your trainers ready, your water bottles topped up, and your energy levels high, because Let’s Move is back for 2026! And this year, we’re gearing up for the biggest, brightest and most community powered event yet. Last year’s celebration at Cross Flatts Park was a sun
We are now well and truly into Spring and Summer is not far ahead. Quite a number of us will be heading to our beautiful coast for a day trip or, for the lucky, a holiday. Most of the area is in the North Yorks Moors National Park and deservedly
A Middleton schoolboy is one of three local Thai boxers who’ve returned as medal winners from an international Muay Thai championship in Bangkok. Fabian Monit, 16, and veteran fighter Pyotr Janusz, 47, won gold in their respective categories with Kamil Fornalski, 25, taking silver. All three train at Beeston’s Master
May is my favourite month in the year. Plants of all varieties are coming into flower and releasing their scents, bright fresh green leaves are beginning to emerge on the trees, the days are warming up and the birds are singing. To top it off, for those of us living
In the Autumn of 2016, Ken Loach’s social-realist film was hitting the nation’s cinemas, and it got everyone talking. Whilst ‘We’re all in this together’ was bandied about relentlessly by politicians, up on the big screen the everyday, personal tragedy of poverty reflected what many of us were seeing across
The O’Donnell School of Dance was started by Margaret Cook and Sandra Lawson in 1960, and has been an asset to the community ever since. Based in St Andrews’s Church Hall in Beeston, the grassroots dance organisation has welcomed hundreds of children in the 66 years it’s been running, many