What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Creative Lives, the registered charity that champions community and volunteer-led arts activity, held its 2022 Creative Lives Awards ceremony in Leeds last month. Each year, the Awards ceremony is held in a different location across the UK and Ireland. This year, it took place in Leeds on 7 March 2023
As part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, Leeds People’s Theatre and Slung Low have teamed up with the acclaimed Manchester Collective to stage a community performance of Noah’s Flood. In this vibrant staging of Benjamin Britten’s community opera, director Alan Lane tells a story of hope and survival, featuring
White Rose Shopping Centre will host a series of free crafting activities alongside late-night openings ahead of Eid al-Fitr this year. On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 April, free crafting events will be held in White Rose’s Central Atrium from 11am to 5pm, where children and families are invited to
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 at Middleton Park Circus where the monthly Makers Market takes place on Saturday from 10am-2pm. Stalls will be
The Children’s Book Project launched their dedicated Leeds hub last month with a Book Drive at Richmond House School, who are collecting pre-loved books to donate to children and families across the city. These most loved titles will be gifted to children with very few or no books of their
Unity Homes and Enterprise, which manages rented homes in Holbeck, Beeston and Hunslet, has appointed Katherine Proctor as Director of Housing Operations. She joins the Leeds-based BME housing association after nine years at Yorkshire Housing where she held a succession of senior positions including Head of Repairs and Investment, Head
The candidates for the 2023 Leeds City Council elections have been announced. We’ve published full lists of the candidates on separate pages for Beeston & Holbeck ward, Hunslet & Riverside ward and Middleton Park ward. We’re writing to all the candidates to ask them about why they are standing and
A local business, Instaplanta (Yorkshire) Ltd has taken Leeds City Council to the Competition Appeal Tribunal claiming the local authority is using its position to block Instaplanta’s business unfairly. The row has been going on for years as we reported back in September 2020, the firm based in Hunslet Moor
April is Autism Awareness Month and although we push for acceptance in the community, there are still many things people misunderstand about autism. I’ve enlisted the help of my two neurodivergent children to breakdown what they feel the biggest misconceptions are. Autistic people don’t make eye contact – one of
After the Second World War, Leeds City Council was twinned with the cities of Lille in France and Dortmund in Germany and, on local government reorganisation when Morley joined Leeds in 1974, Leeds also adopted its German twin town of Siegen Germany was particularly keen on twinning arrangements to demonstrate