What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Tuesday (5 December 2017) staff and children at Hugh Gaitskell Primary School, St Anthony’s Drive, Beeston hosted a new look Christmas Fair. Santa paid a special visit in his extraordinary, newly constructed grotto and there were stalls and
The GATE Community Resource Centre in Belle Isle hosted the inaugural Belle Isle 500 competition awards ceremony on Tuesday (5 December 2017). Belle Isle 500 is a short story competition for key stage 2 pupils in the area and this year involved pupils from Windmill Primary School, Low Road Primary
It’s that time of the year again when we start thinking about Christmas. It’s difficult to imagine some children and young people won’t get a gift at Christmas. The truth is that some areas in Leeds have families that don’t have enough resources to buy presents. As a charity, The
Three members of a Beeston kickboxing club have just returned victorious from Orlando Florida, where they were competing in the World Karate & Kickboxing Championships. Urban Freestyle Martial Arts (UFMA) is a small kickboxing club run by Dean Imbusch and based in Beeston on Dewsbury Road. Dean’s son Jordan, 16,
For most of us Christmas is a time to be merry, a time for presents and the clinking of glasses. But for many people on low incomes Christmas is a lonely and miserable time, made worse by the presumption that everyone is having a great time. So, we are appealing
Last month we at Slung Low were shocked to come to work one morning to discover that the HUB, under the viaduct arches on Bath Road had been burgled during the night. Much of our equipment had been stolen or damaged and our HUB home was in a state of
RETAS is pleased to have received funding from the Leeds Community Foundation for the expansion of our Welcome to Leeds Drop-in services, which helps to facilitate the settlement of refugees and asylum seekers who have recently moved into the area. In order to reach out to a greater number of
Beeston man on a mission to ensure the world remembers the lessons from Srebrenica Yorkshireman Gohar Almas Khan has spoken of his heart-breaking visit to one of Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War. Mr Khan and other delegates from the UK were given an opportunity courtesy the charity
English language school awarded funding to promote social cohesion through free English lessons English4All in Leeds (E4A), a new English language school, is breaking down barriers by providing free, no-strings education and social integration opportunities to local speakers of other languages. The voluntary led organisation which relies on qualified and
On Sunday 5 November 2017 hordes of runners from South Leeds descended on the city centre to run to Kirkstall Abbey and back as fast as they possibly could. The race was the Abbey Dash and is a fairly flat out and back 10k course. It was a cold a