Tag: Friends of Stank Hall Barn

M&S volunteers Spark Something Good

These were not just volunteers, these were Marks & Spencer’s volunteers! Four community groups in South Leeds welcomed volunteers from Marks & Spencer as part of the company’s Spark Something Good programme. A large group of backroom staff from across the region came to Lady Pit Lane allotments in Beeston

M&S are Sparking Something Good in South Leeds

Four local community groups are to benefit from a company’s staff volunteering a day’s labour. These are not just any volunteers, these are M&S volunteers. Beeston in Bloom, Lady Pit Lane allotments, Skelton Grange Environment Centre and Friends of Stank Hall Barn will all be supported in their work this

South Leeds Roundup: Plants, pantomimes and St Patrick’s Day

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Belle Isle, where pupils from Windmill Primary were out with Belle Isle & Middleton In Bloom carrying out some spring planting last week. Our own Ken

South Leeds Roundup: Lights, lions and literacy

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in town at Light Night last Friday, where the Hunslet Club dancers performed outside the Town Hall. Beeston blogger Mike Wallis has been running again. And wearing

South Leeds Roundup: A Fresh SLATE, Santa Specials and Sportsman’s Dinners

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down in Hunslet at our favourite Feel Good Furniture Shop. Yes SLATE are marking their tenth anniversary and the makeover of their Hunslet shop. The Fresh SLATE

South Leeds Roundup: Seized bikes, birds of prey, barns and breakfasts

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with the news that the latest South Leeds Neighbourhood Policing newsletter is out. Also on Facebook they report on a trail bike seized in Holbeck and a

South Leeds Roundup: Mosaics, Motivations and a Mistle Thrush

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down in Holbeck. Bath Road isn’t the most beautiful street in South Leeds, but Slung Low Theatre is doing its best to improve things. The latest addition

South Leeds Roundup: Mills, Mondays and MADE in Leeds

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a Yorkshire Evening Post report about Leeds Civic Trust’s concerns about Hunslet Mills. The Grade II* listed flax mill is prominent on the waterfront, but plans

South Leeds Roundup: Fungi, festivals and old photographs

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a nature walk organised by Friends of Middleton Park last Sunday which revealed, amongst other things, an allegedly edible tree fungus called ‘chicken of the woods’.