What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
For International Men’s Day (19 November 2024) we are shining a light on some positive male role models amongst the volunteers at Lady Pit Lane allotments in Beeston. Our bunch of merry men at Lady Pit Lane allotment are all positive male role models in their own unique ways. Andy
Communities across the North of England will benefit from a £1.2m funding boost to create Green Community Hubs – spaces where local people can use their interests and skills to support sustainable, environmental action, led by charity Groundwork. In South Leeds, the Green Community Hub will provide weekly sessions at
Groundwork Yorkshire’s Community Garden has received £1,000 that it has used to buy a polytunnel for Lady Pit Lane allotment site in Beeston to extend the growing season and provide a space for the group to keep warm during the winter months. This will mean that we can provide more
The environmental charity, Groundwork, is holding social allotment sessions in the hopes of helping out people who need help readjusting to a post-covid world, one step at a time. Do you pay council tax to Leeds City Council? Do you enjoy gardening? Have you ever wanted to learn how to
Free daytime allotment courses started this week aimed at South Leeds residents with learning difficulties, mental health concerns, or those who have been shielding against Covid-19. Local unemployed people in South Leeds are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to
Local unemployed people in South Leeds who live with learning difficulties are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to support their efforts to find employment or training. The course aims to help individuals gain new skills as well as improving
Local residents marked the regeneration of Trentham Park in Beeston at an official relaunch event on Saturday (17 August 2019). Under sunny skies, local residents completed a ribbon-cutting ceremony, children played with the new equipment and everyone treated themselves to free ice cream. It followed the installation of a new
Our next entry for the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards has been submitted by Groundwork, the environmental charity. For details of how your community group can enter please click here. Groundwork is an alternative curriculum provider, based in Morley, South Leeds. We are running a free exciting new project for
Friends of Middleton Park is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch the monthly funding scheme, which sees grants of £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to
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 Hunslet at The Tetley art gallery where a new exhibition is opening. If you’re free on Thursday (2 February) evening 6-8pm why not pop along to