What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Good Deeds are pleased to announce England Cricket Board’s (ECB) Dynamo Cricket for boys and girls aged 8 to 11 years is running in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston every Sunday 10-11:30am. There is no cost and children will receive free ECB kit too. All we request is that you bring
Beeston residents braved a downpour yesterday evening (25 May 2021) to mark the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and reaffirm the message that Black Lives Matter. Organiser Sam Kirk reminded the group that racism was still a big issue in Britain and read out a list of
Anti-racist protesters will ‘take the knee’ at a vigil in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston tomorrow at 6pm (25 May 2021) on the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Policeman Derek Chauvin. The death of George Floyd reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter campaign and saw demonstrations around
The Bridge Café, based in the Watsonian Pavilion in Beeston’s Cross Flatts Park is becoming quite a community hub. The café itself is open again serving hot and cold food and drinks, outside, Monday to Friday 9am-3pm. The café is an offshoot of Health For All’s Bridge Project which supports
Beeston In Bloom held a plant sale at the Watsonian Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park on Saturday (24 April 2021). Aspiring and experienced gardeners perused the prennials and assessed the annuals in a Covid-safe way, snapping up plants at bargain prices. Beeston In Bloom took a record amount on the
South Leeds families are invited to participate in a new ‘Love to Play’ festival this month – with free giant den-building kits and more available locally, to help them do so. The festival – run by acclaimed Leeds-based ‘Playful Anywhere’, between 10-17 April – is aiming to inspire people across
Following the felling of mature trees by Highways England in Belle Isle and by the Canal & River Trust in Hunslet, South Leeds Life has learned that plans are being put into operation to remove all mature trees from parks in South Leeds, starting in Cross Flatts Park. South Leeds
Local families are invited to join free and socially-distant Easter Trail events in Beeston and Holbeck, with chocolate prizes for every child. The events will run in Cross Flatts Park between 10am-3.30pm on Friday 2 April (starting at the Watsonian Pavilion), then will repeat on Holbeck Moor between 10am-3pm on
About twenty local women and men chose to dedicate their daily exercise in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston to the memory of Sarah Everard on Saturday. Sarah Everard was abducted and murdered whilst walking home on Wednesday 3 March. Her death has highlighted the danger and abuse women and girls suffer
Beeston women and their male supporters will be assembling in Cross Flatts Park on Saturday (13 March 2021) at 6pm in protest at sexual harassment, abuse and murder of women by men in Britain, and the world. The murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old woman walking home along