What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds Libraries has trialled a series of Hour of Code workshops with Over 60s in partnership with South Leeds Live at Home. The main objective of the sessions was to use digital technology to promote the health benefits that mind-stimulating activities have on older people. Their coding activities for children
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 5 March 2018: Site-wide illuminated and non-illuminated signage Printworks Campus Hunslet Road Hunslet Leeds LS10 1JY Ref. No: 18/01377/ADV
Hunslet Club boxer Hope Price, 17, continues his phenonenal winning streak, with another national title under his belt, and great things ahead for the coming months. Last month (Sunday 18 February 2018) saw Hope retain his national title as youth flyweight (52kg) at Doncaster Dome. Next up are the Youth
I am writing to call on South Leeds Life readers to join Marie Curie and help. Storm Emma has prevented thousands of volunteers from collecting for Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal last weekend. Because of this, Marie Curie is set to lose a devastating £400,000. That money is needed to
Better Action For Families (BAFF), the Beeston charity that supports people with learning disabilities and their families have landed two grants in recent months. They received a National Lottery Awards For All grant of nearly £10,000 and doubled it with support from the Morrisons charitable trust. Lynn Bailey and Jackie
Red Ladder Theatre visit South Leeds Stadium on Friday (9 March 2018) with Anthony Clavane’s play about legenendary Rugby League commentator Eddie Waring. Playing The Joker counts Jamie Jones-Buchanan amongst the cast. Following on from The Damned United, Red Ladder took Playing The Joker to Belle Isle WMC last month. Here’s Linda
Inner South Councillors visited The Hunslet Club’s Vocational Training project to see their funding in action. Councillors (and candidates standing in the forthcoming local elections in May) representing all three wards that make up the Inner South Community Committee took time out to visit The Hunslet Club on 29 January
Do you remember Hunslet Grange? This is the question that Gill Crawshaw and Louise Dwyer, students at Leeds Arts University, put to members of Holbeck Elderly Aid’s memory café last month. They tell us why they were asking and what got them interested in Leek Street Flats. We are both
Residents of Hunslet and Belle Isle are organising a campaign against a proposed new Park and Ride scheme in Stourton, following a well-attended public meeting on 20 February 2018. The proposed scheme would see a carpark for 1100 cars built on fields just off junction 7 of the M621, behind
On the closing day for applications here’s another entry for the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, submitted by Catherine Bennett for Hunslet Carr Residents Association allotment project. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. The deadline for entries is 5pm today (28 February 2018). Hunslet