What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Celebrating 90 years of Worship, Witness and Service Over the weekend of 21 and 22 January Middleton Park Baptist church will be celebrating 90 years. The church fellowship started meeting before January however, the first recorded members meeting took place on 20 January 1927. So how did it all start?
Local environmental charity The Conservation Volunteers is has a busy start to 2017. The Green Gym sessions funded by NHS Leeds South & East CCG are now well established at Skelton Grange in Stourton and in Health for All‘s base at Cockburn High School in Beeston. As gardening gathers pace
The Asha Neighbourhood Project held an open Annual General Meeting at the Building Blocks centre on the Wednesday 30 November 2016. The community, students and volunteers came to receive certificates, learn about Asha’s progress and share their volunteering stories and experiences. Asha Neighbourhood Project was founded in April 1985. Over
The Middleton Minstrels Community Choir – performing as A Choir’d Taste – are giving a Christmas concert at the Tenants Hall next Friday (16 December 2016). Doors open at 6.30pm. There will be light refreshments, tombola and a raffle for a picnic basket filled with goodies. We are giving the
Through autumn and winter 2016, artist Christopher Jarratt is working with community groups based around Dewsbury Road in Beeston, to develop a final design for two new public sculptures. These will be situated on Dewsbury Road near to the One Stop Shop and also on the corner of Trentham Street.
DePuy Synthes continued their positive track record of getting stuck into community activities when they visited Involve Leeds – an alternative education provider. Involve provides tailored education programmes to 11-14 year olds finding it tough in mainstream school. Working with just 8 young people per day Involve works hard to
Christmas is well and truly arriving in Holbeck this weekend with lots of community events to join in with! On Saturday 3 December 2016 there is the annual Holbeck Christmas Market run by the Holbeck Gala Committee. It’s from 11am–3pm at St Matthew’s Community Centre and it’s always a great
Calling all from Hunslet, Stourton and surrounding areas! Were you born in the area? Did you work in the area or at Thwaite Mill? Do you have any stories from your ancestors of the area? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are doing a history of
The children and families at Lane End Primary School have been thinking about ways that they can support others that are not as fortunate as they are, and have been donating items that might help. As this is the time of year when we thank farmers for their harvests, and
If you passed by Tenants Hall on Monday night 31 October 2016 you would have been forgiven if you thought nothing was going on, all was quiet until the Middle Tone community choir group arrived in full costume fitting the time of the year. [slideshow_deploy id=’55731′] There were eerie sounds