What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Join us for our regular new News Cafe in Beeston. The News Cafe is a very simple idea: volunteers from South Leeds Life will be in the cafe and happy to talk to you about what’s going on locally. It’s not so much a debating society, more a chance for
Have you got a story you want to tell? Do you want to write, but don’t know where to start? Come and join us at our weekly blogging workshop. South Leeds Life has teamed up with South Leeds Community Radio to provide a weekly session for anyone who wants
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
Hi, my name is Kirsty and I’ve just started the Community Reporters course hoping it will help me on my journey towards becoming a more accomplished writer. I’ve wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, starting way back in the mists of time as
Right, so I started the Community Reporters course today … Which is great, right? No, it definitely is! The first session (which is happening right now) is … interesting! I woke up to an email from my oh so lovely manager and attached to it was the info for
Our second Community Reporters course started today. It was a day of introductions. Five new students introduced themselves. As tutor, I introduced the idea of “hyperlocal blogging” and we looked at half a dozen sites from around the country and talked about how South Leeds Life has been developed over
Pupils at South Leeds Academy have been busy blogging for South Leeds Life. A group of 10 pupils recently had a day all about ‘faith’ and what it can mean to individuals. Here are their blogs specially written for us: What faith is : Love Helpfulness Kindness And loads more… In
So we had a bit of a road trip from South Leeds Towers this week. Dave, John and I trekked over to Manchester in search of glory (or at least a certificate). As I reported yesterday we came back empty handed from the Blog North Awards, but it was a
It’s now easier than ever before to contribute to our blog! More and more South Leeds residents are contributing articles and reports to this blog – which is great, this is YOUR blog and it’s open to all who wish to contribute. But we’re all too aware from our own
South Leeds Life started off in November 2010 with six people sat in room working out how WordPress works, choosing a name and a page format. 700 posts and 60,000 page views later, eight people were back in the same room to form a community group that can build on