What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
December has been a busy month for MHA Communities South Leeds, which provides services to older people across Beeston, Cottingley and Hunslet. On Wednesday 7 December 2022 we had a very special guest at our Social Group at South Leeds Conservative Club bringing gifts for all those who attended as
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership (WY HCP) has issued a renewed appeal for everyone to ‘check in with a mate’ this Christmas – with the festive period often proving a challenging time for many. The Partnership’s ongoing ‘Check In With Your Mate’ suicide prevention campaign launched in May and
After successfully holding our first ever Christmas party for the children and families of the club this week we had some selection boxes left over. So we decided as a club to donate them to the children’s ward at LGI. Chris Gamble, club secretary at Holbeck Moor JFC, made the
A day of collaboration between two Leeds’ organisations on Friday (16 December 2022) saw over £800 raised for Getting Clean CIC – a project which supports and guides recovering addicts who want to give back to the community. St Lukes’s Cares charity shop, on Dewsbury Road, Beeston invited Getting Clean
On Friday 9 December 2022, The Hunslet Youth Club brought together different generations by hosting a social action project for their local South Leeds community. For this social action project, some of our young people provided residents from local care homes with a Christmas dinner as well as an evening
Cross Flatts Park was transformed into a magical Christmas wonderland last Friday (9 December 2022) for the annual LS11 Christmas Lantern Festival which first took place in the park in 2013. The festival is put on in partnership by the Church Together in LS11. This year the event started in
“The school’s In Harmony initiative has a significant and positive impact on many aspects of pupils’ learning and wellbeing” Low Road Primary School Ofsted report, 2018 Over 2,500 children currently given the opportunity to sing and play an instrument during curriculum time every week 1,550 orchestral instruments donated free to
With over a thousand tonnes of extra black and green bin waste expected to be produced and over a million bins to be emptied across Leeds during the festive period, the council’s refuse service will be doing all it can to ensure bin collections continue to run smoothly. Collections will take
In the 29th year of noting Disabled People Worldwide, International Day of Disabled People 2022, this year we focus on access and in this article, it will particularly focus on community. When you think about disabled people and access your mind might immediately go to, ramps and lifts, but it
Education for working class children was definitely not a priority, they were expected to contribute to the family income by working, begging, or stealing. Factory owners sometimes provided facilities to educating the children working for them and these children became known as half-timers – half a day working and half