Category: Middleton

News and events for the Middleton area

Sharp Lane pupils win Civic Hall edible flowerbed competition

  The concept of food grown for the community became a reality in Leeds this week with the winners of a new competition seeing the fruits (and vegetables) of their labours.   The winners of the first design an edible flowerbed competition as part of the new ‘Feed Leeds’ project

Family Fun Day planned for New Forest Village

  The Friends of New Forest Village are planning a summer event and they need your help. They are planning a Family Fun Day on Sunday 21st July on the playing fields between Waggon Road and St George’s Centre. The organisers promise competitions, stalls, demonstrations and more! The event will

Volunteers required for South Leeds Foodbank’s first supermarket food collection

  ASDA, Morley will be the location of the first supermarket collection of food for the South Leeds Foodbank on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013. Will you be there? Beeston Festival ’13 was indeed a hive of activity and I spent a few moments with some of the people that are

Activities for Toddlers & Pre-School Children At The Hunslet Club

The Hunslet Club has a new timetable for activities specifically for toddlers and pre-school children. Activities include a fun programme of fun, lively sport and dance activities for pre-school children. These being rugby, gymnastics, football & ballet. As a registered charity we keep our costs low at just £1.50 per session whilst

A short, but big moment with Concillor Kim Groves

  Councillor Kim Groves represents the people of Belle Isle and Middleton, where she lives with her family.  As a Councillor, she works with the following external bodies within South Leeds: Hunslet Hawks RLFC ALMO (Aire Valley Homes) Touchstone Beeston, Cottingley and Middleton Schools Cluster Community Links Middleton Elderly Aid

Fitness Challenge Fundraising Benefits the Hunslet Club & St Gemma’s Hospice

The third annual sponsored Fitness Challenge at the Hunslet Club which took place on Saturday 9th of February (highlights of which can be seen in the video above) and the Zumbathon which took place on Saturday 2nd February raised a fantastic total of £3,818 split between the club and St Gemma’s Hospice

Councillor Kim Groves gets the Jeremy Paxman grilling and lives to tell the tale

  Last week the Community Reporters group interviewed Councillor Kim Groves, the Labour member for Middleton Park Ward.   This was the sixth week of the Community Reports course, the session was about learning how to conduct an interview and to help us get up to speed we watched an