What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new shelter in Cross Flatts Park, dubbed the ‘Runners’ Retreat’, has been opened by Cross Flatts parkrun super-volunteer Sue Richardson. Mark Hodgkinson, one of the organisers who helped start the weekly event six years ago explained: “Sue is one of our longstanding volunteers, who got roped in very early
A Beeston woman has taken the bold step of taking on a running challenge each month until Christmas, in order to raise money to support Diabetes UK. Mel Arendt, 42, was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2015 after a routine health check. She’s taking on the running challenge after
Something very special started six years ago when a small group of runners decided to set up a ‘parkrun’ in Beeston. Having passed the 300 mark at the beginning of March, Cross Flatts parkrun is celebrating its sixth birthday on Saturday (30 March 2019). Fancy dress is encouraged and inevitably
Leeds Building Society research found three quarters (75%) of people in Leeds believe their local park could do with an upgrade Local parks are important to mental health and wellbeing, with 73% of people in Leeds using them as their key place to relax and unwind The vast majority (90%)
A new permanent gazebo will be built in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston after local parkrun organisers were granted £2,000 through Leeds Building Society’s Community Reward Scheme. The initiative, launched in partnership with parkrun, supports participants of parkrun events with projects that make a long-term, positive community difference. Cross Flatts parkrun,
At 9am on Saturday 30 March 2013, 69 people gathered in Cross Flatts Park for the first Cross Flatts parkrun. Since then 3688 runners and walkers of all ages and abilities have taken part in the free, weekly, timed 5km run. Taking place every Saturday of the year (except when
I did it! I completed the Great North Run! It is the best thing I have ever done. Even more so because I reconnected with family. It’s a strange thing is social media. But thanks to Facebook, over 17 years ago when I reconnected with one cousin via a friend
Regular runners at the Cross Flatts parkrun were joined on Saturday (29 April 2017) by members of the GB Underwater Hockey squad. For the last 2 years Underwater Hockey players from all over Great Britain have regularly been attending training weekends at The John Charles Centre for Sport. As part
Here’s your irregular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Cross Flatts Park where the weekly Saturday morning parkrun was graced by five London Marathon finishers. Congratulations to them all. If you want to start your
Junior ‘parkrun’ – a new weekly running event for kids and young people – launched in style last Sunday (13 November 2016) in Beeston’s Cross Flatts Park. A mighty 57 youngsters took part in an event that organisers described as ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’. The free 2km event will now take