What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Next week (29 May-2 June 2023) is half term week for Leeds schools and the Community Development Team at Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) have been working hard to lay on have host of activities for local families at BITMO’s Gate centre. On Tuesday (30 May) the Leeds Libraries’
Two regular monthly Repair Cafés are opening their doors this month (May 2023) in South Leeds. The idea behind Repair Cafés, which started in Holland in 2009, is simply to bring together people with things that need fixing with volunteers who have the skills to fix them. There are now
Council housing is Belle Isle is a bit different to rest of the city. Since the late 1980s it’s been managed by the tenants, first through the Belle Isle Estate Management Board and since 2004 by Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO). The decision to be managed by BITMO rather the
Ken’s, South Leeds Life Diary for 2022 and into 2023. I thought would look back and forward to the various volunteer groups I have started or am involved with and to new friends and new beginnings. I’m Looking forward to 2023, in April this year it will be 10 years
Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO), which manages council housing in Belle Isle, has changed the opening hours of its GATE Centre as of 1 December 2022. BITMO’s GATE new opening times are: Mondays 9am–1pm Tuesdays 1pm–7pm Wednesdays 9am–1pm Thursdays 1–7pm Fridays 9am–1pm This means the centre is open for
On Wednesday (17 August 2022) families in South Leeds are invited on a (f)un-expected family adventure at BITMOs GATE in Belle Isle as hit local theatre company Wrongsemble (Not So Ugly Sisters/Tinsel) return with the Grimm Brother’s fairytales told like never before … Meet world-famous twins Jake and Will Grimm,
The Board of Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) are very concerned about the cost of living for local families and have provided funds for BITMO to arrange 21 events with free food and activities during the summer holidays. BITMO will be hosting free meals and family-friendly activities three times
Red Ladder are a theatre company based in Leeds. We’ve been bringing theatre shows to Belle Isle for a few years now, but now we want to make a show, with you, in the heart of our community. We’re working with Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) on a project
I have been running my Ancestry group for a few years at BITMO’s GATE. I actually started there within a few months of the GATE opening. The group originally ran for an hour a week, but an hour wasn’t really long enough and soon enough that hour turned into a
Opening in Autumn 2021, local residents will be able to borrow litter picking kits from one of the five Litter Picking Libraries being hosted in community venues across Belle Isle and Middleton. In 2017 the Litter Free Leeds campaign was launched by a group of volunteers who wanted to bring