What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Holbeck based feel-good lifestyle brand, Joe Browns, today announces the triumphant reach of its one million customer account mark. Since the quirky catalogue and online clothing company was founded with just a handful of staff in 1998, it has gone on to secure over 200 wholesale accounts worldwide and obtained
Upcoming events at The Holbeck (formerly Holbeck Working Mens Club). Everyone welcome! Thursday 23 April – Psychic Medium Night. An Audience with Gareth Lewis. As part of his Walking with Spirits Tour – spend an evening with Gareth as he shows his amazing ability to contact the spirit world. Tickets
Plans for two sites on the South Bank come forward this week, both with issues about public access to open space. Proposals for the Ruth Gorse Academy on Black Bull Street, Hunslet and a residential development on David Street, Holbeck will be discussed by the City Plans Panel on Thursday
The Inner South Community Committee local councilors Angela Gabriel and Adam Oglivie together with the Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum have organised a free film night for families at St. Matthew’s Community Centre, St. Matthews Street in Holbeck on Tuesday 14 April at 6pm (Children under 16 years must be accompanied by
Businesses at Marshall’s Mill in Holbeck have been collecting Easter Eggs to donate to Leeds Women’s Aid. Lisa Ellen Riley, part of the team managing the building, had the idea of a charity collection at Easter and the idea has been enthusiastically by tenants and suppliers. The eggs will be
An environmental charity is appealing for help having just launched its first ever crowdfunding appeal. Groundwork Leeds is aiming to raise £10,000 for their Men In Sheds project, which supports older men across the city who are at risk of social isolation. The appeal will enable the project to carry out
A range of agencies made their way to the Recreations in Holbeck today (24 March 2015) to talk to residents in the next stage of their work to help landlords improve the area. The Leeds Neighbourhood Approach is an intensive project that has been piloted in Armley and Harehills. As
I talked about personal identity a few weeks ago and today I want to discuss neighbourhood identity. There’s a bit of South Leeds that has been purloined by the city centre. You might call it north Holbeck and north Hunslet. You might call it that post-industrial strip between the river
Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre bring their production of Ablutions to the Holbeck Underground Ballroom (HUB) on Sunday (22 March 2015) at 5pm. Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whiskey
Progress on the council’s major housing project is being celebrated as the number of properties refurbished hits 500 and the fiftieth new build home is completed. A year and a half after the project started, the council’s partner sc4L have now revamped more than a third of 1,245 council houses