What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Beeston’s annual Lantern Festival will be lighting up locations around Beeston on Friday 13 December … and everyone is invited. The festival will include: festive music and drama, a new creative competition, community awards, free hot food, real farm animals and thousands of twinkling lights. The event begins at 4:15pm
Best Midlife CIC (a locally run community interest company) has been awarded funding from our local Councillors of Leeds Inner South Community Committee to deliver a vital menopause and midlife health project for the women of South Leeds. The councillors representing Beeston & Holbeck, Middleton Park, and Hunslet & Riverside
Hunslet & Riverside ward councillors Cllr Mohammed Iqbal (Labour), Cllr Paul Wray (Labour) and Cllr Ed Carlisle (Green) joined partners, different organisations, and women from the South Leeds Community who came together to celebrate the Annual General Meeting (AGM) with Asha last Tuesday (26 November 2024) at Rowland Road Club.
Work is underway on creating new supported accommodation for homeless young people in Leeds thanks to a partnership between the UK’s leading credit management company, Lowell and local homelessness charity, Turning Lives Around. Lowell, whose headquarters employ 2,000 people and are located at Thorpe Park in Leeds, has been working
After the success of the Community Fun day at Rowland Road in August, Beeston Hill Community Association (BHCA) Committee member Shaz Akhtar, along with local craft traders, have come together to run a Christmas Market at the same venue. The Christmas Market will take place on Saturday 7 December 12-5pm
We are thrilled that the first block of workshops in our second year of Creative Communities, has been very well attended. Over ten weeks, the participants at Beeston Community Centre, Manorfield Hall and Hunslet Library and Hub have been introduced to a variety of art techniques, including pottery, wire sculpting,
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning Monday 25 November 2024. Click on the description to see the full application: Consent, agreement or approval required by
For many people in South Leeds Beeston Festival is the highlight of the social calendar an event not to be missed. Every year Cross Flatts Park is filled with music, food, children’s activities for a day of fun and community joy. Many people are surprised to discover that the whole
Reach Primary Learning Centre is now called Cockburn Reach Academy, following a successful pre-registration inspection from Ofsted. They have now become a registered independent school. The school was already part of the Cockburn Multi-academy Trust but will now work more closely with the other Cockburn MAT schools across the south
Preferred Homes, the company behind the new Extra Care flats at Hunslet Moor House on Hunslet Hall Road in Beeston have donated £1,000 to New Bewerley Community School’s Christmas present appeal. Headteacher Juli Aldwinkle and Inclusion Manager Cat Barnes visited the flats on Tuesday (26 November 2024) and were shown