What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
We have been distributing copies of our March newspapers to 200 pick up points around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (6 March 2025). Copies are, or soon will be, available from various food shops including Beeston Nisa as well as many small neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs &
With Inspector Mark Lund I am writing this article to update you on the good work that has been undertaken in the Hunslet and Riverside ward. Since December I have had the use of the Neighbourhood Impact Team and Team Leodis to assist with issues raised by the community, councillors
Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday (6 March 2025) Asda have relaunched its instore book donation points with the aim of supporting families in accessing books through their nationwide partnership with literacy charity the Children’s Book Project. To help launch the campaign, Asda and the Children’s Book project put
The Lord Mayor of Leeds Charity Appeal ‘Just One Day’ has been hailed a ‘great success’, after returning last Thursday (27 February 2025) with the theme of ‘one day to play’. The event runs all year, but features a day where schools, universities, businesses and the public can spend the
Hunslet RLFC 26-28 Widnes Vikings Hunslet exited the AB Sundecks 1895 Cup yesterday at the South Leeds Stadium (2 March 2025) after a closely fought encounter between two evenly matched teams. The game could have gone either way, but after leading at the break Hunslet will be disappointed to not
Local pioneering paint re-use social enterprise, Seagulls, are celebrating 20 years helping people to access recycled low-cost paint to redecorate their homes and upcycle their furniture. The social enterprise started as an idea thought up between two friends around a kitchen table, about how to support the environment and make
Nicola Aldred from Middleton was urged by one of her three sisters to give boxing a go to help her cope with her PTSD and now four years after having walked into Padraic McDonagh’s Golden Team Gym in Hunslet and now the mother of a boy of twelve is the
The agenda for the next meeting of the Inner South Community Committee, made up of the nine Councillors for our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside and Middleton Park, has been published. The meeting, which is open to the public, is taking place at the Aspiring Communities Community
After months of training a group of girls have played their first rugby match in Middleton. The origins of the team lie in the weekly rugby sessions run by Hunslet Rugby Foundation (HRF) at Nutty Slack, the Leeds Corinthians’ ground in Middleton. The sessions are open to boys and girls,
Thousands of people across West Yorkshire, as well as leaders in business and education, have come out in support of plans for a region-wide Mass Transit network. It comes as West Yorkshire Combined Authority releases a consultation report showing more than two thirds of people surveyed across the region are