What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Asha Neighbourhood Project has organised a day trip to Blackpool on Thursday 30 August 2018. Tickets are available for any women and children living in the Beeston & Holbeck and Hunslet & Riverside wards and cost just £2 each. A limited number of free places are available to refugees and
Asha Neighbourhood Centre‘s Better Together women’s group members completed a three day confidence and motivation skills course at the Northern College in Barnsley. The women learned to become more confident in dealing with difficult situations and in everyday living and to have more motivation to cope and succeed. Their children
Asha Neighbourhood Project is celebrating 33 years of service to the community on Sunday 1 April 2018 Asha is a small yet prominent charity in the heart of Beeston. It is focused on raising women’s confidence and providing access to life improving opportunities to local women and their children. Having
Here’s another entry for the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, submitted by the Asha Neighbourhood Project, which works with women and children in the Beeston Hill area. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. The deadline for entries is Wednesday 28 February 2018. The Asha
The Northern College for Residential and Community Adult Education in Barnsley provided another opportunity for community groups in Leeds to take part in an short weekend confidence building and positive thinking course at the Wentworth Castle in Barnsley (2-4 February 2018). The Northern College is a residential college dedicated to
Over 100 women have gained qualifications with Asha Neighbourhood Project this year and the Lord Mayor of Leeds was on hand to award the certificates. The Lord Mayor, Cllr Jane Dowson was attending the Beeston charity’s 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 12 December 2017. Addressing the meeting she
West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service (WYCAS) is a small charity based in Hunslet which aims to help other charities and community groups with their financial recording and reporting. There are 11 staff with community accountants for the areas of Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield. Claire Welling is the community
Last Friday (20 October 2017) women at the Asha Neighbourhood Project came together to show their support for the Show Racism The Red Card campaign. Women’s Lives Leeds breakfast club users together with Asha Neighbourhood Project staff, ESOL and IT students joined together to share a specially made cake. Some
Members of St Mary’s church in Beeston invited the members of the Asha Neighbourhood Project back to do baking with them as a thank you for cooking curries with them (as South Leeds Life reported here). Asha members were inspired by Nadiya Hussain a British baker, columnist, author and television presenter who rose to fame after winning
At the last meeting of the Beeston St Mary’s Mothers’ Union before the summer break we were shown some authentic Asian cooking by some ladies from the Asha Neighbourhood Project. We watched as the ladies put the ingredients together for a chicken curry, not too hot, but very tasty. They