What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Afternoon all! Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s making south Leeds tick on the area’s blogs, websites and on Facebook. Holbeck Cemetery has 87 Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials plus many other private memorials, and is hosting a Remembrance Sunday walk next month. The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery have blogged about
The annual Hamara Community Awards are presented on six categories for people and organisations who have contributed to Leeds’ communities and who continue to put others before themselves. The popular awards are an annual event – and nominations for the 2012 event are now open! Hamara Healthy Living Centre is based
It’s a busy week here at South Leeds Towers! Tomorrow a small group of us is off over t’Pennines for the Blog North Awards, which recognises the best blogs in the North of England. We’ve been lucky enough to have been shortlisted in the ‘best neighbourhood or city blog’ category, so fingers crossed
A music video filmed partly on location earlier this year at the Hunslet Club by local film production company Crowns & Owls has been shortlisted for two prestigious UK Music Video Awards for best choreography in a video and best budget dance video respectively. The video for the song “Showdown” by
We’ve received the following guest post from Kirsty Lunn, of Leeds City College, about winter course starting in south Leeds…. Leeds City College has a wide range of part time courses starting across South Leeds from 5th November 2012 at its Joseph Priestley Campus (Morley), Milton House (Morley), Beeston Centre
Work continues apace to get the old Kwik Save supermarket site ship-shape and ready for a supermarket/cafe/restaurant/takeaway called ‘Venus’. Venus, at the bottom of Domestic Street, will sell Turkish and Middle Eastern food and drink and will apparently be ‘opening soon’. In the past week, teams of workmen have been seen re-roofing
This short video shows you some of the many of activities that take place on Activity Camp, have a look! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4KAyK0nC0&feature=plcp] More info at www.hunsletclub.org.uk
I’ve been very lucky to be involved with New Bewerley Community School since its inception in 2005. Do you know New Bewerley? It’s the weird spiral shaped building at the bottom of Dewsbury Road just past the One Stop Centre. I’ve been the Chair of Governors since New Bewerley was
Plans to build a new primary school on land occupied by the increasingly derelict South Leeds Sports Centre are moving a step closer to reality with the council set to choose the consortium to run it. Senior councillors will meet next week to discuss proposals to open a 420-place primary school – and a
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and on Facebook. Hunslet Hawks rugby club have unveiled their new community minibus, which will be used to take players to local away games, continue the club’s community work and could ferry supporters to and from the South