What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new community mental health and wellbeing network has been set up for organisations working in South Leeds. The network brings together businesses, charities and services to share resources and skills for the benefit of South Leeds community. South Leeds Shares, which has been established by a range of partners
A new way of delivering interventions to improve the health of the poorest ten per cent of Leeds will use expert knowledge and community expertise to change lives for the better. Focussing on the areas of the city which have the ten percent of most deprived neighbourhoods, ‘Better Together’ is
Thanks to being a community reporter for South Leeds Life, I had the fantastic opportunity to experience my first Hamara Community Awards in Bradford on Thursday night (4 December 2014). Everyone who had been involved with Hamara in the last year and before came to celebrate the event in the Aagrah
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week with a question posed on The Leeds Guardian: Is it time for Dewsbury Road to have a facelift? The question was raised by reader Mr Singh, who has spotted
On Wednesday (12 February 2014) Leeds’ newest art gallery, the Tetley, will host an exhibition of work produced in collaboration with local community groups from South Leeds. The exhibition has been called Tetley Feast, inspired by the Hunslet Feast, a community festival that ran for over 100 years. The
The Hamara Healthy Living Centre in Beeston will be hosting a Community Health Fair next Wednesday (6 November 2013). The event will offer free heath checks and advice on: healthy living, nutrition, men’s health, food growing, and being more active. In the afternoon there will talks on: Men and
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Let’s start this week with the new kids on the block (or should that be blog?) The HUGO Family Blog is part of Leeds Federated Housing’s project to Help yoU Get Online
As the schools break up for the long summer holiday, we look at some of the many activities available to keep your children occupied and entertained. The Hamara Healthy Living Centre in Beeston is running a full summer programme of activities for 6-12 year olds through to 29th August.
So Paolo Di Canio, Sunderland FC’s new manager is a fascist, but not a racist. And I keep meeting people in Beeston who aren’t racist, but don’t want “another mosque”. Well I’ve set myself a tricky tightrope to walk this week folks. I’m not going to say anyone in Beeston
The people of Beeston are being encouraged to show their community pride and join in the cleaning up of two corners of the area. Two community clean ups are set to take place in Beeston next week: one in the Tempest Road area and another on the Parkwood Estate. On