What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Households across South Leeds will soon be asked to take part in Census 2021. The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. It has been carried out every decade since 1801, with the exception of
On Thursday 3 December 2020 at 6.15pm, live in your living room (via Zoom), we are delighted to present “In Business Has Got Talent.” This event has been created to beat the lockdown blues, by In Business a networking group based in South Leeds, to do something a bit different
At a meeting the full Council yesterday (11 November 2020), Leeds City Council approved a motion we have been calling for as local Councillors – a motion to demand the Government protects residents in Hunslet and Riverside Ward and across Leeds who have been impacted by the scandal of faulty
It is with great excitement we announce that the Lantern Festival will return in December and WE NEED YOUR HELP! 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways – we hope the Lantern Festival can play a part in brightening up the Christmas season and help the year finish
I used to have problems with Remembrance Sunday, thinking it was glorifying war. When I was a teenager/young adult in the 80s there was a lot of fear of nuclear weapons and as a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament I went on a few marches – I still
Tomorrow (Wednesday 4 November 2020) is National Stress Awareness Day, so we asked Shannon Humphrey, a First Aid for Mental Health Instructor and wellbeing advocate to give us some pointers on how to cope with stress: Stress isn’t just a word, it’s a feeling. It can be a knot in
It was great to join local residents from Hunslet Tenants & Residents Association and volunteers from the GoodGym Leeds to help plant some of the 6,000+ blubs (of a variety of species) in the large green space in the middle of the Hunslet estate off Church Street and Midland Road.
Breakfast, dinner, tea? Breakfast, lunch, dinner? Breakfast, tea, tea? Whatever our disagreements on what we call our meals, I am sure we all agree on this – nobody should be going hungry. Nobody should be hungry. Especially since there’s so much extra food and money in the world that we
Cockburn Multi-Academy Trust, in partnership with Leeds City Council and the Department for Education has building work across three different sites in south Leeds. At Cockburn School, the new three-story classroom block is nearing completion and will be ready to invite students into some exciting Science and Humanities lessons during
This coming Tuesday (3 November 2020) sees the US presidential election: a battle – arguably more seismic and bitter than ever – between Donald Trump (for the Republicans, with Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence) and Joe Biden (for the Democrats, with Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris). We asked local US