What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
White Rose Shopping Centre and Heart Yorkshire Become Santa’s Little Helpers as Shoppers Buy Gifts for A Deserving Child This Christmas White Rose Shopping Centre in association with Heart Yorkshire are encouraging shoppers to buy a gift for a deserving child this Christmas. Until Sunday (18 December 2016), the Heart
Businesses in Holbeck Urban Village have donated over 100 presents to women and children fleeing domestic violence this Christmas. Lisa Ellen Riley who works in the reception at Marshall’s Mill organised the collection for women and children at Leeds Women’s Aid after a successful collection at Easter. Businesses responded magnificently
This last week saw the conclusion of the epic Leeds2Iraq charity appeal, with dozens of volunteers from across south Leeds and beyond loading up two articulated lorries with 25 tonnes of winter aid – which are now heading out to refugee camps in northern Iraq. Over the past weeks, an
South Leeds people are once again taking a lead on a city-wide appeal to gather, sort, and send tons of winter aid out to refugee camps in the Middle East – and they need all the help they can get! Indeed, whilst the media coverage has focused on those refugees
This week saw south Leeds charity St Luke’s Cares open their fifth charity store, in the heart of Beeston Hill on the busy Dewsbury Road – as part of a major push to become financially secure, and to safeguard their much-valued work in the local community. The new store is
Beeston residents are helping to organise a convoy of much-needed clothing and supplies from Leeds to refugees in Iraq later this month, and are urgently appealing for help and donations. Violence in Syria and Iraq over the past 2+ years has led to millions of people being forced to flee
St Luke’s CARES has opened its third community charity shop on Throstle Lane in Middleton. The shop offers excellent bargains and helps to recycle quality second hand goods, including clothing, household goods, toys, books, accessories and other items. Proceeds from the shop help to fund the work of the charity
A new food bank has been set up by two churches in Holbeck to help households in crisis. The Food Bank has been set up by the Holbeck Christian Fellowship and Mosaic Church. They have been collecting dry goods for some time and are now fully stocked and ready to
Very few of us have not lost a family member or a friend to cancer and so many of us have reasons to be grateful to Macmillan Nurses for their care and support, writes Andrew Gill of Middleton Railway Trust. In special memory of Kay, the daughter of one of our