What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With the start of the new school year, over 1,000 pupils each week will now be benefiting from Opera North’s award-winning In Harmony community residency as the Company introduces the project into a third primary school in South Leeds. In Harmony was created with the aim of enriching lives, improving
Leeds’ police chief Paul Money will make a daunting descent of his Elland Road headquarters this weekend in a charity abseil that kicks off its annual open day. Chief Superintendent Money, Leeds District Commander, will be joined by Temporary Chief Constable Dee Collins and other senior officers to descend the
As the schools go back this week, we have news of adult courses being offered by community education provider Vera Media this autumn in Leeds 11. ESOL for Women, taking place at the Salvation Army Centre in Hunslet Hall Road, or the Asha Neighbourhood Centre, or Ingram Road Primary School
Join us on Thursday (8 September 2016) at 11am to begin the new Holbeck Heritage Trail. It is a whole day walk which will begin in Holbeck Cemetery where we will look at some of the memorials of those innovators and inventors who made Holbeck the great centre of Industry
South Leeds Life has been running regular News Cafés for the last year, but what exactly is a News Café? As you probably know South Leeds Life is run by volunteers, on a shoestring budget. We work from our homes and don’t have an office. Which means if you want
A few years ago I used to do a job that entailed getting up at 5am. This was wonderful in the summer months as there are few things nicer than having the world to yourself as it stretches and yawns itself awake, bathed in the golden light of sunrise. It’s
Leeds City Council have published plans to extend the 20 mph traffic zone to the residential streets in the Parkwoods, Southleighs and Allenbys around Cockburn School. The zone forms part of the Council’s plans to reduce the speed limit on all residential streets in Leeds to 20 mph. The work,
The Asha Neighbourhood Project is holding an Open Day on Wednesday (7 September 2016) at their base on Stratford Street, Beeston. Asha have been working with women and families in Beeston for 31 years and offer a range of services including training and childcare. The event runs from 10am-3pm at
St. Luke’s CARES charity shop are due to start running their free neighbourhood retail skills courses from September 2016. This follows on from the previous TRY! Retail training course which ran for 5 weeks and only offered participants a ‘certificate of attendance’. After the success of the previous course, St. Luke’s applied and was awarded the Big
More sofas, white goods and training St Luke’s CARES has extended its successful Dewsbury Road Charity Shop, directly connecting the shop to their refurbished warehouse. [slideshow_deploy id=’51134′] With even more retail space than before, the Dewsbury Road shop is a great destination to pick up quality pre-loved furniture at unbeatable