What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Thursday (5 May 2022) is polling day in the Leeds City Council local elections and we encioutage all our readers to use their vote Polling stations will be open from 7am to 10pm for everyone registered who has not already voted by post. Anyone unsure of where their polling station
This weekend (6-7 May 2022) local children’s charity Kidz Klub Leeds are running the length of the Leeds Liverpool Canal in 24 hours! A team of 15 runners will be relay running to achieve the127 mile challenge in just 24 hours. The team will be setting off from Liverpool’s Stanley
Be Curious, the University of Leeds’s annual research event, is back on campus for the first time since going virtual in 2020. On Saturday (7 May 2022) 10am-4pm, the University will be open to the public for a day of free, fun family-friendly activities. From crafting a community blanket to
I hate to harp on about the lockdown, but do you remember when everyone seemed determined to take their few minutes of fresh air and exercise every-single-day, because the freedoms they’d been used to were gone? And taking the dog for a walk or going for a run added a
Jodie, the Branch Coordinator at Leeds Credit Union, takes a look at the importance of financial wellbeing and advises on how to improve yours. Getting to grips with your financial wellbeing delivers a range of benefits. Unfortunately, many people don’t know what financial wellbeing actually is. Financial wellbeing isn’t about
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. We start on Saturday in Cross Flatts Park where the local Craft Market takes place at the Watsonian Pavilion from 9:30am-2pm. The
We have been distributing copies of our May newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 28 April 2022). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Nisa Extra, and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops, charity shops, Community Hubs and Libraries,
For several years now, the number of people contacting me about housing has been getting bigger and bigger. They are either desperate to get a council house, are in a private let but can no longer afford the rent, are overcrowded or have been waiting for ages to move. House
I would like to focus this month’s column by discussing diversity. In the Leeds South community, we are fortunate to benefit from broad cultural diversity, as highlighted by a number of recent religious celebrations. Whilst many of us may have marked the Christian celebration of Easter, others will have celebrated
We start this week on Saturday morning with Beeston in Bloom’s ever-popular Spring Plant Sale at Watsonian Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park, 10am-12pm Hunslet Tenants & Residents Association will be out on Church Street with their information desk from 11am Re:establish are holding a Table top sale at Hillside, Beeston