What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
LS-TEN have recently launched a new youth service project in South Leeds, working with organisations from across the city to form the Leeds Youth Alliance. Our partners in the south are Barca, Re:establish, The Youth Association, DAZL, Hamara and The Getaway Girls. In the North East and West, Barca are
Leeds Playhouse is touring award-winning slam poet Zia Ahmed’s play ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ to community settings in Middleton and Beeston this month following its run at the Playhouse. Over the past 9 years, the Playhouse has shared productions such as Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’, David Peace’s ‘The Damned United’
I first met Farouk, nearly 25 years ago when I began my career in the community sector as a project worker with the South Leeds Elderly Group. Farouk was the chairman and one of the founders and although the organisation was a very small outfit with only two part-time staff,
Three South Leeds community organisations: the Hamara Centre; Hillside and Cranmore and Raylands community centre are all advertising posts at the moment. Hamara Centre, Tempest Road, LS11 6RD Maintenance/Caretaker 22 hours per week. £9 per hour an electronic application pack can be obtained by emailing admin@hamara.co.uk or calling (0113) 277
Touchstone’s MAP+ project has organised a Community Road Safety presentation on Friday (13 March 2020) at 2pm at the Hamara Centre in Beeston The presentation will be delivered by Leeds City Council Road Safety Team and will educate participants about the dangers and risk of distractive driving and hopefully change
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has won a grant of £300,000 from independent trust Power to Change. The grant, part of the trust’s Community Business Fund, will allow Hamara to move the development of the Old Cockburn Sports Hall forward towards planning and detailed designs. Hamara’s vision is to renovate the