What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It was ten years ago that both Tony and Hilary Benn MP officially opened the Hamara Centre on Tempest Road (2004). Hamara has now grown to be one of the largest ethnic minority organisations in the voluntary and community sector in Leeds. As I reported from their Community Awards ceremony
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 reminiscing about Beeston. If you live or grew up in Beeston, you need to join the Memories of Beeston, Leeds Facebook Group. From there we reproduce a
Leeds City Council agreed to designate Beeston Neighbourhood Forum on 5 January 2015. This is welcome news and enables the Beeston community to come together to discuss and resolve the issues identified when the designated area was consulted in June 2014. The process will culminate in the writing of the Beeston
The end of a year is when we tend to look back over what’s happened and forward to what lies ahead. Among the friends we sadly lost in 2014 were Steve Williamson – so full of energy – and John Hodgson who was a Labour and union man to his
Hunslet’s newest hair salon received a visit from Hilary Benn MP on Small Business Saturday (6 December 2014). Quintessential, on Church Street has been open just five days, after local business women Dawn Picken and Annabel Walsh. Quintessential complements Dawn’s other salon in the Penny Hill Centre meeting the needs
The foyer of Beeston library was busy on Friday afternoon (28 November 2014) as members of the public grabbed their free copy of the South Leeds Life community newspaper. The timing of the launch coincided with the MP and ward councillor’s monthly advice surgery at the library. Angela Gabriel and
South Leeds Life will be launching its first free regular newspaper at Beeston Library on Friday 28 November 2014 from 4-6pm. The paper will be available at all libraries, schools and community centres in the LS11 and LS10 areas from Monday 1st December. It will then be published each month
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 Beeston, where the Asha Neighbourhood Project is preparing to mark their 30th anniversary next year. They’ve been out planting daffodil bulbs in resident’s gardens on Stratford
It was a bank holiday on Monday. Maybe that’s why I read so much of The Guardian. Anyway, three articles rang bells, or possibly the same bell with me. There was an article about the Post Office suggesting the most ‘desirable’ postcodes in the country were SP9 (Tidworth), GU46
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. Apparently today is National Dog Day so it seems appropriate to start with the Friends of Middleton Park who have posted some lovely photos from last Sunday’s dog show. The