What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds Life are starting up two weekly News Cafes where you can come and chat with the Editor and some of our volunteers. The News Cafes will run on Tuesdays at Hillside’s Feel Good Café in Beeston and on Friday at BITMOs GATE in Belle Isle. Both sessions
Got thoughts about what stories you’d like South Leeds Life to cover? Want to get know more about what South Leeds Life is about? Interested in how you or your organisation can become a Friend of South Leeds Life? Well there’s a chance this Wednesday (13 November 2013). At 6.30pm
A few us from South Leeds Life went up to Middlesbrough last Saturday to something called the Talk About Local un-conference, or in the language of Twitter #TAL13. Let’s unpick that a bit. Talk About Local (TAL) is an excellent organisation that supports “hyperlocal” blogs to get established and
Are you interested in local history? Middleton has an incredibly rich heritage, from mining and railways in Middleton Park to boundary disputes with Beeston and, in the 1920s, the building of one of the Leeds’s first council estates. And now the Middleton Life local history group has launched its very
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Community Reporters Course run by South Leeds Life spending ten weeks learning skills in news story writing, opinion pieces and how to write the perfect headline. Held at the new South Leeds Community Radio headquarters we were quickly thrown in the
A group of Holbeck residents have joined together to help turn around the fortunes of their struggling Holbeck Social (Working Mens) Club. Many clubs and pubs are feeling the effects of the econmic downturn. The new Friends of Holbeck Social Club group is there to support the WMC and has
It’s been a source of debate for some time. A kind of ‘ghost town’ which is neither part of the city centre or the rest of South Leeds – a white elephant that’s so far failed to live up to expectations. But a new strategy for the ‘Brigadoon’ that is Clarence Dock in Hunslet is
We just wanted to take the time to shout out about South Leeds Life and thank YOU, our readers and contributors, for your support. During May a record number of readers came to our blog! We recorded 10,311 views as over a dozen different contributors posted more than 100 different articles on
Leeds-based social entrepreneurs Gill Coupland and Rob Greenland are aiming to tackle the number of empty houses in Leeds with an event at Beeston’s The Greenhouse next month. Gill and Rob were inspired to start the project after moving to Beeston. On their super new ‘Leeds Empties’ blog, they write:
My name is Vikki Blake and I live in Cottingley Hall. On June the 24th I will be carrying the Olympic Torch. I’ve started my own blog: ‘Vicky – Olympic Torchbearer’ to highlight my training. Here is my story … I moved on to the Cottingley Hall estate in June 2001. I