Tag: Beeston Festival

South Leeds Roundup: Takeovers, plans and installations

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at Leeds’ community TV channel MADE in Leeds (Channel 8 on Freeview). Pupils from Ingram Road Primary School in Holbeck took over the news programme on Tuesday

South Leeds Roundup: Mermaids, mining and a million pounds

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with the Leeds Waterfront Festival, which takes places at various sites along the River Aire on the weekend of 25/26 June. Now you’ve heard of flash mobs,

South Leeds Roundup: Awards, archives and all-terrain trikes

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at the Child Friendly Leeds Awards, where Beeston’s Hamara Centre’s Supplementary School won in the supporting schools category. “Since having a daughter it has hit home that

2015: Twelve Good News stories

There’s a lot of winter gloom about – the floods, Storm Frank, the murder of sex worker Daria Pionko in Holbeck – so we decided to offer you 12 nuggets of good news from 2015 to remind you that South Leeds has so many good things going for it. In January

Beeston Festival promises summertime fun

You know the summer’s here when Beeston Festival rolls around. It’s back on Saturday (6 June 2015) in Cross Flatts Park and organisers are promising a park packed with fun. No matter what your interest you’ll find something to do at Beeston Festival. For the youngsters there are Breeze inflatables,

South Leeds Roundup: Skills, sons and a skate park

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at SLATE. As well as recycling furniture and serving ace teas, SLATE provide work and training opportunities for people with learning disabilities. They are currently running a