What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Groundwork Yorkshire’s Community Garden has received £1,000 that it has used to buy a polytunnel for Lady Pit Lane allotment site in Beeston to extend the growing season and provide a space for the group to keep warm during the winter months. This will mean that we can provide more
Local Lady Pit Lane allotment volunteer, and Hillside resident Chris, is raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Macmillan is a charity offering support to families and those struggling with cancer. His raffle is also raising money for Cancer Research. Started after the inspiring care Chris experienced when his mum was
The environmental charity, Groundwork, is holding social allotment sessions in the hopes of helping out people who need help readjusting to a post-covid world, one step at a time. Do you pay council tax to Leeds City Council? Do you enjoy gardening? Have you ever wanted to learn how to
Free daytime allotment courses started this week aimed at South Leeds residents with learning difficulties, mental health concerns, or those who have been shielding against Covid-19. Local unemployed people in South Leeds are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to
Local unemployed people in South Leeds who live with learning difficulties are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to support their efforts to find employment or training. The course aims to help individuals gain new skills as well as improving
A green space buzzing with insects and birds, beneath filtering sunlight highlighting the green grass and radiant flowers. Not a sentence you’d necessarily associate with urban Leeds but certainly a scene I was met with when I visited the Green Gym at the Lady Pit Lane Allotments in Beeston. Zoe
Four local community groups are to benefit from a company’s staff volunteering a day’s labour. These are not just any volunteers, these are M&S volunteers. Beeston in Bloom, Lady Pit Lane allotments, Skelton Grange Environment Centre and Friends of Stank Hall Barn will all be supported in their work this