What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Conservation Volunteers are celebrating the hard work of over 40 volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre this year, as they complete a series of improvements to promote biodiversity and visitor access to the site. The Skelton Grange Wild Area Project will be completed with a final volunteer event
An ECO partnership is turning up the heat on a new scheme aimed at keeping residents’ energy bills down. Wrap up Leeds ECO, which was launched last summer, is a partnership between Leeds City Council, Keepmoat, SSE and Wilmott Dixon. Together, they are offering free boilers, cavity wall and
Get into Painting & Decorating The Prince’s Trust is now recruiting for its Get into Painting & Decorating programme run in partnership with Leeds College of Building, in Leeds. Get into Painting & Decorating aims to give young people a mixture of practical training and qualifications, that will allow
The Beeston Hill and Holbeck housing regeneration project took another step forward this week with work starting on the first of 275 new build homes. Sc4l are developing a mix of 47 one and two bedroom properties across the three sites at Folly Lane, Coupland Place and Malvern Road
Mini HUGO – a minibus equipped with computers has hit the road in South Leeds to get people get online and flood communities with free wi-fi. This week you can find Mini HUGO on the following streets: Tuesday 18 Feb: Penny Lane Way & Jack Lane, Hunslet (morning only)
Plans have been drawn up to deal with the strong winds generated by the Bridgewater Place tower block and the subsequent road closures that have blocked the city centre off from South Leeds. Victoria Road, one the main routes into the city centre from the south was closed again
Residents in Beeston are being urged to join in a community clean up on Thursday afternoon (20 February 2014). Under the slogan ‘Love Beeston Clean Beeston’, the plan is also to speak to local residents about keeping the streets clean and tidy and not dropping litter. There is a
Denise Kempton from the Youth Service has been in touch with this report written by young people from Middleton and Belle Isle who took part in the National Citizen Service (NCS) project last year. Fast forward your future! “If you live in England and are or will soon be
A local history group is angry that that the decorative façade of the Middleton Arms, which was to have been used in the new Aldi store has been lost. Members of Middleton Life local history group are writing to Aldi to express their ‘anger and disappointment’ over the damage
Speaking at Beeston Community Forum last night (6 February) Stewart Robinson from International Fun Fairs said it was possible that 2014 would be the last Valentine’s Fair at Elland Road. The fair started 21 years ago in the city centre and proved so popular that it quickly outgrew the