What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
As the school summer term comes to an end, an exciting summer holiday youth programme kicks off in South Leeds, providing children and young people with opportunities to meet, socialise and participate in a whole host of entertaining activities. Young people from Middleton, Belle Isle, Holbeck, Cottingley, Beeston and City
The Leeds City Council’s Inner South Community Committee will be meeting next Wednesday (15 June 2016) and the workshop session will debate highways issues. Committee Chair Cllr Angela Gabriel said: “The theme for the event will be Highways, so if you want to hear about the priorities for the areas
Beeston Festival returns to Cross Flatts Park on Saturday 4 June 2016 from 12-5pm and, taking the Rio Olympics as its inspiration, the organisers have given it a Carnival flavour. Ahead of the official opening a parade will snake around the park. There aren’t many samba bands in Beeston, so
The South Leeds Independence Centre in Beeston has new planters for their garden thanks to students from The South Leeds Academy. The Centre helps older people coming out of hospital to regain their independence and live at home again. South Leeds Academy has built a partnership with the centre through
A dozen caravans which pulled onto the edge of the moor on Holbeck Moor Road opposite the new housing on Good Friday are set to be moved on. The Council were unable to act immediately because the Courts were closed over the holiday weekend, but South Leeds Life understands that
Children from Hugh Gaitskell Primary School undertook an environmental audit of their routes to school last Thursday (3 March 2016). A group of Year 5 and 6 pupils were joined by Councillors Angela Gabriel and Adam Ogilvie together with a Police Community Support Officer and Harriet Pickering from the organisation
Cottingley residents plant first 50 trees of half mile long community orchard With 1,200 residents on the Cottingley Hall estate, a small orchard wasn’t an option as far Cottingley in Bloom volunteers were concerned; they set their sights on something far more ambitious – a half mile avenue of fruit
Forty residents attended a meeting called by Save Our Beeston (SOB) to debate the proposed match day parking permit scheme on Monday evening (29 February 2016). The scheme, which is currently being consulted on, would see residents given permits to park on their street, but football supporters from out of
Over 100 people packed into St Matthew’s Community Centre on Saturday morning (27 February 2016) to put their views to Council bosses and Police officers. The meeting to discuss the ‘managed sex work area’ was organised by local councillors and chaired by Cllr Angela Gabriel. Most of the residents were
Dodging blustery showers, residents, school children, Councillors, staff from builders Keepmoat and Housing Leeds came together on Friday (29 January 2016) to celebrate the completion of new council housing in Holbeck. Before the new community garden was opened, people gathered in The Holbeck club out of the rain. First we