What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Holbeck Elderly Aid secure £475,747 of Big Lottery funding for older people living in the local area Holbeck Elderly Aid, the local neighbourhood network for older people in the Holbeck area, has announced today (12 May 2015) that it has secured £475,747 of funding to support the growth of the
Wild leaf salad with a fruit vinaigrette dressing, accompanied by home baked nettle seed bread and followed by elderberry and almond tart anybody? This Saturday (20 September 2014) Craig Worrall of Edible Leeds will be leading a Wild Food Walk around Skelton Grange Environment Centre’s beautiful wildlife area. Berries
Community groups are invited to find out more about the National Lottery’s new funding to back community enterprises across the country at an event being held at Hillside in Beeston next Friday (5 September 2014). ‘Power to Change’ is a £150 million Big Lottery Funded initiative which will open
If you go down in the woods today … you will find out how thousands of children and adults from Leeds have already benefited from spending time outdoors at Skelton Grange Environment Centre, thanks to funding from the Big Lottery and National Grid. Run by the charity The Conservation
This year is the 30th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) and to celebrate Skelton Grange Environment Centre in south Leeds has lots of volunteering opportunities going on. Three of the days are being led by Skelton Grange’s current team of dedicated Volunteer Officers as they teach Leeds primary
In a bid to find out how grown-ups can break the ice with others, The Big Lunch has asked a group of local school children for their top tips on how to make friends. The Big Lunch visited Middleton St Mary’s Primary School in South Leeds to find out
Fancy running a £5 million flagship next generation youth centre in Belle Isle? Well, council chiefs are hoping to offload the running of the much-vaunted – but underused – youth facilities, which opened two years ago. They’re looking for “not for private profit” local organisations to take the lease on
Staff and volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have given 20,000 people from across Leeds and Yorkshire Access to Nature since April 2010. Skelton Grange Environment Centre in South Leeds is celebrating the fact that it has received well over 20,000 visitors to the centre since 2010 as part of