What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Would you like to tell the stories of your community and learn new skills? South Leeds Life is running a Community Reporters course starting in two weeks time. It’s fun, it’s free and it’s aimed at beginners, so no experience is expected of you. The course will be run by
Day 2 of the community reporters course and we are looking at photography, featuring a trip to somewhere I’ve never been before, Middleton Park. After an introduction on the techniques on how to take a good picture we headed off, armed with my new found knowledge and my camera
Yesterday was the first day of the Community Correspondent course (flash term for reporter) so I decided that I’d write a little mini-blog that charts my progress. So after a two week delay in the course starting, I arrived at the South Leeds Community Radio building in Beeston. I
My name is Craig Sweaton and I live and work in Middleton. I decided that I’d like to be more involved in community activities and their promotion via the internet so, here I am! I have lived in the Ls10 area all my life and have always felt a
First day finding out about South Leeds Life and hyperblog. Never heard of hyperblogs. What next! The Community Reporters course sounded as though it would give me some pointers to improve my writing skills. For several years now I have written articles for the local newspaper on behalf of
Arriving back from holiday in June, I just managed to catch an email sent on by Steve Ross (Area Support Officer, Citizens and Communities) at the Council. The email was about a course starting that evening. The course at South Leeds Life run by Jeremy Morton was intended to
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
Up until this year I had only ever been to the main floor in the library. The one with all the books! It never occurred to me to look upstairs and to find out what other joys may be found there. Then earlier in the year I attended a
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