What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
White Rose Shopping Centre customers have donated in excess of 5,000 gifts to local charities thanks to the centre’s Giving Tree hosted in December. So generous are White Rose shoppers that the centre begun distributing gifts to the two chosen charities earlier than planned – an incredible feat benefitting two
The South Leeds Lakers running club is inviting people who have never run before to come to a series of training sessions designed just for them. The ‘Couch to 5K’ (C25K) programme is a 9-week course of 30-minute exercise sessions which the Lakers is putting on free of charge to
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
I met up with Sean Sturman and Susan Oldroyd, two of the administrators of the Save Our Beeston Facebook group, to find out about their latest charitable venture Helping People In Beeston. The scheme helps people by marrying people in need of help with volunteers and springs from the Save
Is it just me or are more people putting up outside Christmas lights this year? I took my video camera for a short walk around my part of Beeston yesterday evening and filmed a random selection of my neighbours’ displays: I realise this is only one small part of South
A resident of Beeston has been hit with a three-month curfew and a financial penalty after pleading guilty to a number of fly-tipping offences. Mr Yadson Barroso of Westbourne Avenue was ordered to pay £200 towards costs and a surcharge of £60 at Leeds Magistrates Court after pleading guilty this
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
St Mary’s Church in Beeston is hosting ‘Carols by Candlelight’ on Sunday (18 December 2016) at 7pm. This is not a full carol service but a chance people to come together and sing some favourite Christmas carols together. Rev Lindsey Pearson, the Vicar of Beeston said: “If you got a
The Cross Flatts Lantern Festival returned for the 4th time on Friday 9 December 2016. Approximately 400 people came out on an unseasonably mild December evening to enjoy seeing the park beautifully lit up with lanterns and fairy lights. [slideshow_deploy id=’56654′] Photos by Mark Day The crowds were treated to
The children of Years 1 and 2 at New Bewerley Community School came together to tell the Christmas story to a hall packed with parents and carers on Friday (9 December 2016). Teacher Gemma Wayte had written the story into a poem which the children had learnt. Classes took it