What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Students from Leeds College of Building have been doing Yorkshire proud and showing the rest of the UK how it’s done after bringing home one gold and two highly-commended medals. At the national WorldSkills UK competition – the country’s largest experiential skills, apprenticeships, and careers event – Leeds College of Building apprentice Joseph Turner
Students at Leeds College of Building are gaining hands-on construction experience after visiting their new £13-million Hunslet campus site. Main contractor, Clugston Construction, started work on the foundations and ground works last October. Since then, a total of 186 student site visits and 14 group tours have been organised up
The transformation of the South Bank area – the former industrial parts of Holbeck and Hunslet – is taking shape with more schemes coming forward. A new University Technical College is set to move into part of the Braime engineering site on Hunslet Road. The college, which is backed by
Leeds Apprenticeship Hub is hosting a fair at the Civic Hall where you can find more about opportunities for apprenticeships in the construction industry. The Fair takes place on Monday 28 April from 10am to 12pm in the Banqueting Suite and is targeted at young people between 16-24 who are
White Rose Shopping Centre is providing an important stepping stone for two apprentices as they prepare for the next stage of their careers. Nathan Waters, who is 21 and 20-year-old Chris Taylor, are approaching the end of their four-year electrical apprenticeships with engineering, IT and facilities services business NG
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. You may recall Lucy Potter’s posts from her visit to New York. She’s now on the second leg of her study, visiting Rio de Janeiro (I know). You can follow her travels
A packed public meeting at The Tetley art gallery on Tuesday (18 February 2014) heard about plans for a Hunslet ‘Stray’. Harrogate and York have Strays – areas of green space in the city centre and David Lumb from Leeds Sustainable Development Group (LSDG) admitted they had chosen a
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
Sc4l – the company delivering the Housing PFI scheme in Holbeck and Beeston Hill is recruiting – offering apprenticeships, construction jobs and work experience opportunities. Later this month there are two job fairs in south Leeds where local people can find out more about these opportunities: Monday 21 October
“Real employers with real careers want to meet Leeds young people” that’s the message about Tuesday’s Apprenticeship event at Leeds Town Hall. Apprenticeships working with celebrity agents, The Leeds United Foundation and the NHS will be among those on offer at the apprenticeships and skills evening aimed at young