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Pride in Place community art project

Swarthmore Education Centre’s Lottery Funded Creative Communities project is delighted to announce its next blocks of Pride in Place art workshops, which will take place at BITMO’s Gate in Belle Isle and St Luke’s Church in Holbeck. In each block, six talented artists will demonstrate and introduce participants to their

Another Platinum Artsmark for New Bewerley Community School

New Bewerley Community School’s hard work and dedication to the arts has been recently rewarded with their second Artsmark Platinum award, the only primary school in West Yorkshire to be granted such an accolade. New Bewerley is a whirling snail of creativity on the edge of the city centre. A

Holbeck Together host community roadshow

Holbeck Together in partnership with the Leeds City Council Mobile Community Hub Bus held a Community Roadshow event at St Matthew’s Community Centre on Thursday 14 March. We invited many different partners to come together so that the local community had the opportunity to access many different services, be better informed

On The Beat: Belle Isle and Middleton

Sgt Dan Ryder writes: In June 2023, I transferred to West Yorkshire Police from Thames Valley Police, and I am now the Lead Sergeant role for the Middleton and Belle Isle area. I have been a serving Police officer for 20 years and have spent many of these years on

Asha’s Women Together programme boosts self confidence

The Beeston and Holbeck Women Together project are an independent group which ran for one year, formed after Asha Neighbourhood Project was successful in getting a grant from Live Well Leeds in March 2023. During the project 120 women took part in 17 weeks of baking/cooking sessions with existing service