What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
BITMO GATE is becoming the place off choice for jobs in the area. Give them a try. Business Administration, Delivery Driver and Dental Nurse Apprenticeships available in South Leeds! For more information please email gate@belleisletmo.co.uk stating which apprenticeship you’re interested in. An opportunity for an individual who enjoys using
Women running small businesses are being offered support at two free seminars running at Bewleys Hotel in Holbeck. Locally Grown offers free support to women in small business across Leeds. They provide workshops, seminars and one to one support for entrepreneurs. By working with you on the individual aspects that
I met Flo Plummer, the Prince’s Trust Team Leader for South Leeds in Holbeck, back in December when I was visiting Holbeck Working Men’s Club reporting on their dazzling Christmas Grotto. Just as I was leaving, Flo introduced herself and wanted me to share the achievements of the team members
People with learning and other disabilities in Leeds are exploring art therapy thanks to new funding Local people in Holbeck are using funding from People’s Health Trust to explore art therapy and other activities together through local organisation People Matters. People Matters has received funding of nearly £50,000 from People’s
We would love to invite the people of Holbeck to join us at the Holbeck Gala annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 20 January at Ingram Garden Community Room at 7:15pm. The gala is a great event which runs each summer on the moor in Holbeck. It’s always a brilliant
Beeston residents are helping to organise a convoy of much-needed clothing and supplies from Leeds to refugees in Iraq later this month, and are urgently appealing for help and donations. Violence in Syria and Iraq over the past 2+ years has led to millions of people being forced to flee
The tenants who will soon be moving into new housing on Brown Lane East in Holbeck were welcomed to Holbeck at an event at Holbeck Working Men’s Club on Saturday morning (10 January 2015). Unity Housing Association which has built the new properties invited new tenants to a meet and
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of 7/7, the London bombings. South Leeds Life has spoken to a range of local figures about those events, their aftermath and the decade since. Everyone was of course massively shaken by 9/11 and the so-called ‘War on Terror’– yet it seemed far away, something
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic collision on the M621 on Tuesday night (6 January 2015). The incident happened at 5.15pm when a male pedestrian was in collision with a Peugeot 407 near to junction 2 (northbound) of the motorway (A643 Elland Road and Ingram Distributor).
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of 7/7, the London bombings. South Leeds Life has spoken to a range of local figures about those events, their aftermath and the decade since. Cllr Adam Ogilvie, who represents Beeston and Holbeck ward, remembers it was surreal to have the world’s media camped on