What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hunslet Hawks have been in touch about this week’s schools tag rugby festival: We have been working hard over the past five weeks in local South Leeds primary schools coaching children in year two how to play tag rugby league, preparing them to play in a fun tag rugby festival.
A public consultation exercise over creating the city’s first major park and ride scheme at Elland Road could begin next month. Senior councillors in Leeds will debate the proposal to introduce the scheme at the executive board meeting to be held at Civic Hall next Wednesday. Should they give approval,
Kushy Dil Women’s Group held an event to celebrate the achievements of its members and mark its second birthday. With the help from an Awards for All grant, women have been taking part in different activities since April 2012. These include horse riding, canoeing, skiing, athletics and running sessions at
Hannah Smith, a curate at Leeds Minster who lives in Beeston, will be running the London Marathon next Sunday. “This is my first marathon and it’s both exciting and very scary! “I’ve decided to raise money for a local charity that I’m involved in. Mon ey you give will go
Forty Four runners turned up for the third weekly Parkrun in Cross Flatts Park on Saturday morning. Runners of all ages and abilities turned up to run a measured and timed 5 km course around the park. Some runners clearly knew each other and many didn’t, but that didn’t disturb
You won’t need a mountain bike for this workshop which promises to teach you the “Shabby Chic” basics. SLATE, the charity behind the Feel Good Furniture Shop in Hunslet and the Feel Good Cafe at Hillside in Beeston, have teamed up with the No Stripping Studio to lay on this
A programme of enforcement patrols by Leeds City Council is taking place in South Leeds. Councillors David Congreve, Adam Ogilvie and Angela Gabriel (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) have been keen to secure the patrols following numerous complaints about littering and dog fouling from local residents. The patrols, carried out by
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Beeston In Bloom took advantage of the weekend sunshine to spruce up the “cardinal Triangle” on Dewsbury Road. There’s a report on their blog Blooming Beeston. Beeston food blogger Ewan Mitchell has set himself
The Hunslet Club, The FA and Mars, The FA’s Adult Football Partner, have made it as easy as a ‘one-two’ to turn up and start playing the football that best suits you: whether it’s a good old-fashioned kickabout or the more competitive game, like 5 or 11 a side
What do you get when you mix good food, a sprinkling of entrepreneurship and a large dollop of old fashioned community spirit? Cafe Me ‘n’ U – that’s what! The new cafe on Beeston’s Cardinal estate is the brainchild of resident Yvonne Crowther and is the result of the £17,000