Category: Hunslet

News and events for the Hunslet area

Music Video Made In South Leeds Shortlisted For 2 UK Music Video Awards

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

Leeds City College: New courses, new opportunities in South Leeds

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

South Leeds Sports Centre: Primary school plans move forward

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

South Leeds links: Hunslet Hawks, cemetery vandalism and naked rambler

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

South Leeds groups discover Community First

Representatives from local community groups discovered how they could apply for grants of up to £2,500 at a special support event held at The Hunslet Club last night. Community First aims to support local projects, while promoting a sense of community ownership and encouraging communities to help themselves and others.

Hunslet Club Dance Troupe Performs “Nightmare” at Leeds Light Night

The new Hunslet Club Dance Troupe made it’s first performance at the internationally renowned Leeds Light Night Festival on Friday October 5th.  Their 10 minute routine was on the steps of Leeds Town Hall at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 & 8:30pm. For just one night each year, the city’s artists, makers

Picture perfect: Top floor view from Crescent Towers – Plus ‘In Bloom’

What a fabulous view of South Leeds and beyond those community stalwarts Dennis Kitchen and Ian Pickup have! The duo, who are the brains behind The Voice of Holbeck, Holbeck in Bloom and Friends of Holbeck Social Club, live on the top floor in Crescent Towers at the bottom of

Leeds United player to surprise youngsters at Old Cockburn Sports Hall

Young people who have been taking part in a football skills project with Leeds City Council’s youth service will be visited by a special guest in Beeston this evening. A Leeds United first team player will drop in to the Old Cockburn Sports Hall to meet youngsters who have been