What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
People living in South Leeds are set to benefit from fresh investment into local grassroots sports facilities thanks to a £600k grant from the Football Foundation. This investment will enable Hamara to build a new leisure and wellbeing facility and create a new 3G Multi sports pitch. These improved facilities
Yorkshire Contemporary (YC) are an arts charity based in Leeds, working across Yorkshire and beyond to make contemporary art happen. You may know them from their time as The Tetley (2013–2023), a contemporary art gallery based in Hunslet. Before this, they were known as Project Space Leeds (2006–2012), an artist-led
Youth Futures Foundation have announced a £1.7 million grant to tackle workplace discrimination and support employment opportunities for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in West Yorkshire. The Beeston-based Hamara Centre has been selected to lead the project targeted at young people with Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage living in Leeds
The next meeting of Beeston Hill Community Association will be held on Monday (27 November 2023) from 6:30pm at the Hamara Centre on Tempest Road. The new group has started well with three community meetings since its launch in May 2023. This community-led group aims to give residents of Beeston
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has secured a grant of £300,000 from the Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities – Community Ownership Fund. The grant will allow Hamara to move the development of the Old Cockburn Sports Hall forward towards Construction of The Cockburn Centre early 2024. Hamara’s vision is
The grand reopening of Hamara’s rooftop garden on Wednesday (26 July 2023) was a great success. Over 50 people attended the event hosted by Hamara and Season Well. This was the fruition of six months of hard work from staff, service users and the fantastic team from Season Well. With
Audiences in neighbourhood venues across Leeds will be having a ball this summer when Leeds Playhouse takes Fidget Theatre’s ‘Football Freddie’ on a two-week Community Tour, kicking off on 5 June. Ten community venues, including Jamyang Buddhist Centre in Holbeck, the Hamara Centre in Beeston and Middleton Parochial Hall, will
Momentum is building behind the proposal to form a new community association for Beeston Hill – with local residents invited to join a meeting on Monday (30 January 2023), from 6pm, at the Hamara Centre on Tempest Road. This builds upon a packed-out meeting last November, when several dozen residents
Last week (3 November 2022) I was invited to Hamara Centre by Mathew who is the Regional Director for Yorkshire Humberside and Teeside of Food Cycle a food charity that cooks on site using food that would otherwise go to waste and feeds the community for free. Mathew says “The
The Deputy Mayor of West Yorkshire for Crime and Policing Alison Lowe OBE and Chief Superintendent Dodds, the Leeds District Commander, will be holding a public meeting at Hamara Healthy Living Centre on Thursday (3 November 2022) at 6pm to discuss policing issues with local people from LS11. The meeting