What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) and NHS England Specialised Commissioning are currently asking people in Leeds about their proposals for maternity and neonatal services in the area. LTHT is planning to build two new hospitals at Leeds General Infirmary. As part of the plans
The Beeston Young Ladies Cooking Club recently held their showcase event which was a great success and benefit for the young ladies who are aged 11-15. After recently securing funding from Touchstone and receiving donations from various Uncles and other sources in the community the club held a twenty-week course
A fall in theft crime and potential new waste management strategies were some of the salient points to emerge from the Beeston Hill Residents Meeting on Monday (17 June 2019). Neighbourhood Police Inspector Lucy Leadbeater revealed that overall robbery-related offences in the Beeston Hill area decreased by 25 in May.
We are a group of young girls who came together and form the Beeston Young Ladies Cooking Club. The objective of the group is to learn and gain skills in cooking varieties of dishes. We received £500 grant from Touchstone charity (MAP+) to run this project and we are extremely