What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
NHS worker’s message to the South Asian community An NHS worker has joined the drive to encourage members of the city’s diverse communities to come forward and have their vaccine when invited to do so after seeing his mum get protected. Ali Aslam who works for the NHS, has issued
Community leaders, representatives, and a wide range of South Leeds residents are rallying together to encourage everyone to take up the opportunity to get vaccinated against Covid-19 (also known as Coronavirus) in the coming weeks and months. Ten months on from the Covid-19 pandemic going global and turning the world
Women in Leeds are being urged not to delay taking part in cervical screening during the coronavirus pandemic through the launch of a new safety video. Cancer Wise Leeds, a programme funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research and delivered in partnership with Leeds Cancer Programme, has produced the Safe Screening for
Due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19, Foster4Leeds, Leeds City Council’s fostering service, are urgently seeking to increase the number of foster carers available to care for children and young people throughout the city. The council works extremely hard to continually recruit local foster carers. The number of families fostering
The new UK Covid-19 variant is now believed to be responsible for around one in every five cases of the virus detected in Leeds, new figures have revealed. Residents and communities across the city are being urged to stay home whenever possible and keep contact with others to an absolute
Support and advice about council services across Leeds is being given to help steer the city through the new national lockdown. After the latest restrictions came into force earlier this week (5 January 2021), teams across the council have been working to ensure access to services remains as accessible as
More care home residents and vulnerable people in Leeds will be offered protection against Covid-19, as the new Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine starts to be rolled out to GP-centres. Local GPs are working together to provide vaccinations to as many care home residents and patients aged 80 as possible. In Leeds,
Beeston and Holbeck councillors Gohar Almass, Angela Gabriel and Andrew Scopes have warmly welcomed the Your Space mental health service’s efforts to adapt to Covid-19 restrictions and deliver support online. The Your Space service, based in the Jamyang Buddhist Centre in Holbeck and covering the areas of Holbeck, Hunslet, Beeston,
Alan Lane, the Artistic Director of Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to the community in South Leeds during Covid-19 in the New Year’s Honours List. As we have reported over the last year, Alan and the team at Slung
December has always been a jam-packed month of festivities at Holbeck Together and due to the current safety guidelines, we’ve had to be even more creative in developing ways of spreading as much seasonal cheer as possible! Due to the change in guidelines, we had to revise our original plans,