What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds FC have made a double move this week bringing in Craig Ogilvie as their first team manager and bringing fanatical Leeds United supporter Gareth Senior as the club’s first ever club president. Ogilvie is a well respected manager in non league football having managed the likes of Yorkshire
When I first heard about this play I was intrigued if not a little worried, how do they do Animal Farm on stage? Is this going to be a load of people running around in cheesy pig and donkey costumes? What about the hens? It turns out there was no
A dad-of-three who turned his life around with the help of Leeds’s drug treatment programmes is among those who have helped shape a major new five-year plan to tackle substance use harm in the city. Jules, 52, has told how “life improved exponentially” once he worked on himself and engaged
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 this week down by the river at Canal Connections by the Royal Armouries (LS10 1LE) where Playful Anywhere will be
I am a huge fan of the Netflix series Kim’s Convenience, so when I saw it was being performed in the Courtyard Theatre at Leeds Playhouse, I just had to see it. I hadn’t realised that it had been a theatre production first and was developed into the TV series
Holbeck-based arts charity Pyramid has been shortlisted for the Flare Audio Music and Culture for Wellbeing Award at this year’s Northern Music Awards sponsored by Ticketmaster and Live Nation, hosted by music therapy charity, Nordoff and Robbins. High Rise Music, Pyramid’s weekly group for people with profound and multiple learning
“One has to be able to imagine a future in order to start planning for it.”
White Rose Shopping Centre and Trinity Leeds have hosted their enterprise challenge, ‘Made in Yorkshire’, with three Leeds schools competing in a ‘Dragons’ Den’-style pitch. Made in Yorkshire is a cross-school competition with students tasked with designing a brand-new community space for the city before going head-to-head and pitching their
Record-breaking numbers of people are accessing Leeds Stop Smoking services for support as health leaders step up efforts to encourage more people to quit. The last three months of 2024 saw a significant rise in the number of people contacting the services for support, with a 73% increase in referrals
Postal voters in South Leeds are to receive information in the coming weeks advising them of new rules which mean they need to renew their details to be able to continue to vote by post in future elections. As a result of changes introduced by the government’s Elections Act 2022,