What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Beeston Christmas Lantern Festival brought the Christmas magic back to Cross Flatts Park on Friday (8 December 2023) and it was bigger and better than ever with people from across south Leeds joining in with the festivities. Led by local churches, and featuring volunteers and partners from across the
Beeston’s annual Lantern Festival is set to light up locations around Beeston on Friday 8 December 2023 … and you are invited. The event begins at 4:15pm with three local gatherings at St Luke’s Church, Malvern Road, St Mary’s Church, Town Street and Rowland Road Social Club. People are invited
Cross Flatts Park was transformed into a magical Christmas wonderland last Friday (9 December 2022) for the annual LS11 Christmas Lantern Festival which first took place in the park in 2013. The festival is put on in partnership by the Church Together in LS11. This year the event started in
Over the weekend (2-4 December 2022) three wonderful murals have appeared on the streets of Beeston created by local children. The pictures show three characters from the Nativity Story on their journey to Bethlehem and are a part of the Lantern Festival which takes place this Friday (9 December). Mary
The 2022 Lantern Festival returns on Friday 9 December and this year takes place at four locations across Beeston. The event will start with three smaller local gatherings at St Luke’s Church, St Mary’s Church and Rowland Road Social Club. The theme for the whole event will be the ‘Journey
The Christmas Lantern Festival is returning on Sunday 12 December and is taking to the streets of Beeston and Holbeck bringing light and joy across the community. Rather than drawing everyone together in Cross Flatts Park, this year the Lantern Festival is once again going ‘On Tour’, with an open
Last Saturday (12 December 2020) saw LS11 residents out in (socially-distant) numbers, to enjoy the spectacle of Christmas carols and festive cheer blasting out from an illuminated open-top bus and bicycle procession – as a Covid-safe alternative to the popular annual Lantern Festival. Over two hours, the bus wove its
Over the last 7 years, the Cross Flatts Lantern Festival has become a fixture in the community’s Christmas celebrations. Each year the park has been lit up with hundreds of lanterns and thousands of fairy lights on a cold December evening; stable animals have delighted children and adults alike; school
It is with great excitement we announce that the Lantern Festival will return in December and WE NEED YOUR HELP! 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways – we hope the Lantern Festival can play a part in brightening up the Christmas season and help the year finish
The 7th annual Christmas Lantern Festival took place this evening (13 December 2019) in Beeston’s Cross Flatts Park and was another great success. Hundreds of families attended on the cold but mostly dry night to enjoy carols, live animals, a giant snow globe, the Junk Christmas Tree competition, a mini-orienteering