What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
There’s been a steady flow of applications from local community groups in South Leeds for pots of money from the Community First oprgramme – but more applications are still welcome. Lisa Huntley from ReNew has sent South Leeds Life the following information: “Applications are coming through steadily and the closing
“People just don’t seem to think it’s their responsibility to clean up after their animal,” says Dennis Kitchen. “They think they can just leave it for someone else to clear up.” South Leeds Life caught up with two local groups – the Voice of Holbeck and Friends of Holbeck Cemetery
Following the huge success of the Hunslet Clubs’ Northern Soul Night in February, we’re doing it all again, Friday Apri 27th, two licenced bars, newcomers always welcome… Hillidge Road, Hunslet, LS10 1BP
We’ll be having a meeting to review progress on the South Leeds Life blog – and YOU are more than welcome to attend! Our monthly meetings are open to anyone who’d like to contribute to the blog – or who’d just like to come along for a chat or to
The Hunslet Club hosted it’s very own Strictly Come Dancing Themed Competition Night on Saturday 14th April with popular club volunteer and staff faces competing like you’ve never seen them before! They spent weeks practicing hard and the results were spectacular in front of a packed out sell out crowd. The well deserved
A leading local councillor has backed our campaign to tackle dog owners who fail to scoop up after their pets in south Leeds’ streets and public places. Yesterday South Leeds launched our Scoop It Up campaign, which aims to try and educate people to pick up their pet’s dog muck – and
Leeds-based social entrepreneurs Gill Coupland and Rob Greenland are aiming to tackle the number of empty houses in Leeds with an event at Beeston’s The Greenhouse next month. Gill and Rob were inspired to start the project after moving to Beeston. On their super new ‘Leeds Empties’ blog, they write:
“We have old people, a disabled girl in a wheelchair and young children living in this street. It is very hard to walk on the footpath as dogs have always fouled in front of every house. No-one on our street has a dog. We need help to sort this problem.
South Leeds Life reader Louise Drury used to work at Middleton-based charity Health for All managing its children’s project and has since worked with disadvantaged kids in Namibia and is looking to live in South Africa. In a special guest post, she writes about the differences in culture and issues regarding, children, education and poverty…
Good morning, south Leeds! We’re back from our little Easter break and our slight lull in filing stories – thanks to Jeremy Morton, Dave Florence, Christine Robinson-Perkins, Deacon Al Henry and Jason Slack for their contributions over this period. We thought it’d be good to round-up some of what’s been going on