What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Do you want to stop your house getting burgled? It’s quite simple – just remember to lock your doors and windows. Open doors and windows are a major contribution to burglary rates. Lock the doors when you go out, even if it’s just to the corner shop or to sit
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on the area’s blogs, websites and news outlets. Our friends at the Voice of Holbeck blog say tickets for their jubilee event next month are going quickly – and they also preview their next community meeting. The Friends of Middleton
The Inner South Area Committee of Leeds City Council has its next meeting on Wednesday 16th May at Hillside on Beeston Road, starting at 6:30pm. The Area Committee is made up of the nine Councillors of our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, City & Hunslet and Middleton Park (details here).
Pupils at Hugh Gaitskell Primary School in Beeston have been getting green-fingered, in an attempt to bring the school’s withered vegetable patch back to life and raise awareness of how things grow. The project, which is being overseen by higher level teaching assistant Angela Worley, is a community initiative supported
Remember how yesterday South Leeds Life revealed how two new social enterprises on the Cardinal estate in Beeston had received some cash courtesy Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire programme? Well Middleton-based dance group DAZL (Dance Action Zone Leeds) are also featuring on the same programme, which is due to be aired
Ambitious plans to open a new community cafe and a hairdressers on the Cardinal Estate have been boosted by an unexpected source – Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire TV programme. Community campaigner Yvonne Crowther, who helps run the White Rose Residents Association, is looking to luanch two new social enterprises
Last week we told you that there is an important meeting coming up about the future of South Leeds Life (here). We now publish the draft constitution for our group which we are proposing to call the South Leeds Information Group. South Leeds life Constitution The point of the constitution
“Help us transform empty houses into family homes,”Leeds Community Foundation Chief Executive, Sally-Anne Greenfield has urged ahead of a Beeston conference to tackle the city-wide problem. Leeds Community Foundation is supporting Social Business Brokers’ ‘Call to Action’ on empty homes campaign by opening up a new empty homes pledge fund
More info on the bands & video links at: http://www.japanesefightingfish.co.uk/ & http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/15454/
Police have released an e-fit of a man they would like to speak to in connection with two bogus burglaries in which the suspect is believed to have posed as a police officer. Both incidents occurred on Friday, April 27, when the suspect called at two addresses purporting to be