What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Proposals for a new 420-capacity primary school for the Beeston/Holbeck area were discussed at a lively public meeting today. In the region of a dozen people attended the Hamara centre on Tempest Road for the first of three public meetings to discuss the possibility of a new school being built
MP Hilary Benn has said provisional proposals to carve up his Leeds Central contituency at the next general election ‘make no sense’. Boundary Commission proposals aimed at reducing the total number of Westminster MPs would see the current Leeds Central constituency – which covers much of ‘inner’ south Leeds and other
In the region of 100 people recently helped to give amateur rugby club Hunslet Warriors a new look. The club beat off competition from 60 other clubs to win £5,000 of makeover money from Super League sponsors Engage Mutual. Volunteers helped to revamp the club’s 20-year-old kitchen facilities, the changing rooms
There’s a whole raft of important public meetings and events in South Leeds this week. As revealed by South Leeds Life last week, there are three public meetings to discuss plans for a new school on the site of the former South Leeds Sports Centre. The meetings are tomorrow (Monday) at
A four- week healthy cookery course is starting in Hunslet on Monday (September 19). If you are interested in finding out more about healthy eating and cooking healthier meals, why not come along to these healthy cooking sessions? The session runs 10am—12.30pm at St Mary’s Church, Hunslet, (opposite the Penny Hill Shopping Centre).
South Leeds Life is a collaborative blog. Eight of us, some linked to organisations, some not, got together last November to start writing about South Leeds. We get together every month or so to see how it’s going, share ideas, ask questions and generally see how we can improve things.
The Friends and Relatives of Hunslet Cemetery group are campaigning for better security at the vandalised cemetery. They’ve set up an online petition and their facebook group has more than 1,200 members. The Friends have set aside Saturday, 17th September, 10am – noon, to do litter picking, pruning and bulb planting
Three public meetings are being held next week to discuss proposals for a potential new primary school for Beeston and Holbeck children on the site of the South Leeds Sports Centre. The meetings will take place next Monday at the Hamara Centre at 2pm, Tuesday at Tunstall Road Community Centre at 5.30pm
Do you have photographs of South Leeds you’d like to share with the wider world? Well now’s your chance! We’ve set up a group pool on photo sharing site Flickr which is open to everyone to add their photographs of life in South Leeds to. You’ll need to set up
The Hunslet Club looks forward to welcoming back its 1000+ membership at the start of the new school term. While people have been on holiday the club has been busy extending the garages & bar, building an extra activity room and games room, redecorated the dance studios, put picnic tables & benches outside (thanks