What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new project is set to start in January on the Parkwood estate in Beeston The ‘Make it Work’ project is a new and exciting programme run by Social Skillz UK: a social enterprise organisation that works with individuals, aged 16 years and over, who are in need of support
Leeds City Council’s Executive Board will meet this week on Wednesday (19 November 2014) when several South Leeds issues will be on the table. First up is the ongoing discussion about the future of community centres. Old Cockburn Sports Hall in Beeston is one of 10 centres under discussion with
A new post-16 academic sixth form college is set to open in South Leeds in September 2015. The Elliott Hudson College will be located close to the White Rose Centre with provision for 500 students per year. Parents and students at an information morning at Cockburn School on Saturday (15
Children from the new Lane End Primary School, together with staff from contractors Interserve, held a Golden Bolt Ceremony on the site of the new school last Monday (10 November 2014), when the final bolt into the steelwork frame was driven home by one of the reception class children. Work
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Would you like to attend a FREE training session to learn how to help someone who is feeling suicidal? Community Links are giving you the opportunity, check out the flyer for more details. Please note not all Seminars are at BITMO GATE. Please telephone or e-mail for details. Only a
Tiger11, the organisation behind the Hillside office and conference venue in Beeston are advertising for a new Chief Executive. Tiger11 was set up in 2005 and bought the Grade II listed Hillside building, formally Hillside Primary School, from Leeds City Council. Following redevelopment the centre opened in November 2008 providing
Residents of Beeston Hill will, alongside children from local primary schools, be marking Remembrance Day this Tuesday (11 November 2014) – in the new community garden taking shape outside the unused Holy Spirit church building on Tempest Road. The short event will be led by local vicar Rev Lindsey Pearson
A packed meeting of Beeston Community Forum overwhelmingly agreed to send a formal objection to Leeds City Council over the Aspiring Communities’ planning application at its meeting last Thursday (6 November 2014). The meeting heard that the Forum Secretary, Robert Winfield, had been copied into an email to Councillors about
I have just been following the comments in South Leeds Life regarding the proposed Community Centre development on Barkly Road, and very interesting reading it makes! It did spur me on to look at what objections/support might have been placed on the Public Access pages of Leeds Planning. I was,