What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
The St Luke’s Tenants and Residents Association (serving the northern, ‘bottom end’ of Beeston) are holding a picnic and pop-up sports day this Saturday (27th August 2016), between 1pm–4pm on the green space behind Beeston Hill Medical Centre on Cemetery Road. Bring picnic food to share if possible, from 1pm
Hi, I have been working hard to get more people to walk on the BITMO GATE Walk and Talk walking group and to obtain grants and funding, which would allow me to buy certain things like Pedometers for everyone on the walks. I have managed to get grants and get
West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South Do you and your family/friends have plans on Sunday 11th September? If not you do now, get yourselves down to our open day at Elland Road! There’s loads of family fun activities, FREE entry & parking and even a sponsored abseil down the
The Broadway pub on Dewsbury Road are this Friday (19th August) hosting what they hope will be the first of many evenings of live entertainment – including performance poetry, music, and comedy. This inaugural event in particular promises some of Yorkshire’s finest up-and-coming poets, including Toria Garbutt, Matt Abbott, Gav