What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds world music band Fusion will be playing a special benefit gig at The Holbeck this Saturday (10 October 2015). Fusion are breaking new ground in world music, mixing jazz, folk and flamenco with influences from Africa and the East. They mix and blend songs and sounds from a variety
New drama makes political stand inspired by Shock Doctrine at Slung Low’s HUB Hot off Edinburgh Fringe, Dumbshow are presenting Electric Dreams at Slung Low’s HUB on Sunday (11 October 2015) a new production that explores if we’re a nation in shock. Electric Dreams tells the story of Rose who
Leeds City Council is bringing its services to the streets of Holbeck with its new ‘Pop Up Hub’. The Hub is visiting the Recreastions every Wednesday in a pilot project to get services closer to residents. Services you can find at the Dewsbury Road Hub (formerly One Stop Centre), such
South Leeds people are once again taking a lead on a city-wide appeal to gather, sort, and send tons of winter aid out to refugee camps in the Middle East – and they need all the help they can get! Indeed, whilst the media coverage has focused on those refugees
The transformation of the South Bank area – the former industrial parts of Holbeck and Hunslet – is taking shape with more schemes coming forward. A new University Technical College is set to move into part of the Braime engineering site on Hunslet Road. The college, which is backed by
When is a story not a story? Or to put it another way, when is it better not to publish a story? I’m referring to the Yorkshire Evening Post’s coverage of the ‘managed red light zone’ in Holbeck. In case you missed it, they reported on a scheme where prostitutes
Belle Isle TMO shared West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South. If you spot a motorbike or quad out on the roads- without a registration plate- contact 101 to report it to the Police. West Yorkshire Police – Leeds Inner South Officers from the Inner South NPT and Off Road
The national Green Party leader Natalie Bennett yesterday (30 July 2015) visited the Holbeck viaduct in the heart of Leeds – which has over the past two years become the focus of a growing community campaign to see it re-opened as a public green space, and walking and cycling route
A community centre at the heart of a regeneration project has officially re-opened after an extensive revamp. Ingram Gardens community centre has undergone a major transformation ahead of nearby properties in Holbeck being refurbished as part of the council’s housing regeneration project. The council’s partner sc4L and Keepmoat overhauled the
DASH – Digital AccesS in Holbeck – is a new service to help people get online in the neighbourhood. DASH provides access to on-line services, help and assistance with computers, tablets, smartphones every Tuesday morning at the Holbeck Youth & Community Centre. The sessions will also incorporate the Holbeck Work