Tag: Angela Gabriel

Planning starts for Beeston Festival 2024

Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 11 January, reflecting on another successful event in 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. The Annual Report, which is now available to read and download on the festival website at beestonfestival.org.uk, details how the organising committee plan their work and reflected

Beeston Councillor to step down at May election

Councillor Gohar Almass (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) has announced that he is to step down at the next election in May 2024. Cllr Amass was facing a deselection battle within the Beeston & Holbeck Labour Party Branch, but announced he wouldn’t be seeking reselection hours before Tuesday night’s branch meeting

Beeston Festival prepares for 2023

Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 21 January, reflecting on another successful event in 2022 and looking ahead to 2023. The Annual Report, which is now available to read and download on the festival website at beestonfestival.org.uk, details how the organising committee plan their work and reflected

Community Planters and Painters in Holbeck

The saying many hands make light work was an understatement yesterday (Sunday 1 February 2015) as 15 volunteers took to a planting and painting task in Holbeck. Before daylight left Leeds, ten fruit trees had been planted on the moor and outside Old Chapel Studios in Holbeck. Flower beds had

South Leeds councillor meets young people

Beeston and Holbeck councillor Angela Gabriel met with a group of eight young people from the Youth Service South Leeds Youth Engagement Group at St Matthew’s Community Centre. The group are made up of local young people who attend Holbeck Youth Club, Beeston Village Youth Club, ASHA Girls Group and South

Happy 21st birthday, Health For All!

Local charity Health For All has celebrated its 21st birthday at a special event held at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre in Middleton. The event, which coincided with Health For All’s AGM, saw food, entertainment and a number of speeches celebrating the achievement of an organisation which started in an attic in

Inner South Area Committee report from Hillside

Our local councillors met at Hillside in Beeston last night to discuss council business and local issues at the regular Inner South Area Committee. Chair Cllr Angela Gabriel started the meeting by welcoming new Middleton Park councillor Paul Truswell for his first meeting. Cllr Truswell takes over from Geoff Driver, who

MP Hilary Benn opens new Sphynx Square in Cottingley

[slideshow] Cottingley TRAC chair Robyn Holland writes about the work of the organisation – and the opening of the new Sphynx Square on the estate over the weekend. Cottingley has seen some changes over the past few months. The management committee at TRAC (Tenants and Residents Association of Cottingley) has