What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
White Rose Shopping Centre has this week welcomed the return of its annual Christmas Appeal, which supports Leeds children’s charities Kidz Klub Leeds and Leeds Baby Bank throughout the festive season. The centre is inviting guests to get into the giving spirit and donate toys and gifts suitable for ages
White Rose Shopping Centre has announced the return of its annual charity appeal, which aims to benefit Leeds charities in the run-up to Christmas. Located in The Central Atrium, The Christmas Appeal gives visitors an opportunity to donate gifts for children aged 0-16 during centre opening hours. All donations will
‘Just One Day’, the Lord Mayor of Leeds’ charity fundraising day, will be returning virtually this year on Friday 14 May 2021. After being postponed last year due to coronavirus, the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Eileen Taylor, is once again encouraging local residents, businesses and organisations to come together
Due to Covid-19, fundraising events and activities have not been able to go ahead as usual over the past year. That’s why this year a virtual fundraising pack has been launched to enable people to safely fundraise for the Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal from the comfort of their own homes.
Hunslet shopkeeper Steve Barron is inviting the community to help him collect warm clothes, to be shared out amongst people who are homeless in Leeds this Christmas. Steve runs Leasowe Stores and Cafe in Hunslet Carr, and – despite himself suffering multiple break-ins in the past months – is looking
Scores of Beeston residents and businesses are rallying to the aid of an ‘active and loving’ local community stalwart, Val Duggan – who recently was suddenly and unexpectedly struck down with terminal cancer and paralysis. And they are now calling on the wider community to help them push on towards
Marie Curie is appealing for local people in South Leeds to ‘get behind the daffodil’, by volunteering to collect donations for the charity’s annual Great Daffodil Appeal this March and help turn the streets of Leeds yellow. The charity needs volunteers to encourage people in the local community to give
This last week saw the conclusion of the epic Leeds2Iraq charity appeal, with dozens of volunteers from across south Leeds and beyond loading up two articulated lorries with 25 tonnes of winter aid – which are now heading out to refugee camps in northern Iraq. Over the past weeks, an
South Leeds people are once again taking a lead on a city-wide appeal to gather, sort, and send tons of winter aid out to refugee camps in the Middle East – and they need all the help they can get! Indeed, whilst the media coverage has focused on those refugees
Charlies Angel is a family run, Middleton-based charity born out of family tragedy. Sam Key’s daughter Carrie gave birth in 2012 to baby Charlie, but he had a rare and untreatable condition called Potters Syndrome. Unfortanately she died just days later. What shocked the Key family was the lack of