What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A charity swishing party is being held at St Mary’s Beeston Parish Centre on Saturday 9 July 2016, 10am-12noon. Swishing is a fun way of swapping clothes – you bring clothes, pay a small entrance fee, and pay 50p-£1 for every item you take away. Clean and good condition clothes
When Miss McEvilly suggested to her Year 8 class at The South Leeds Academy that they bring in food for Leeds South Food Bank to mark Harvest Festival, the children responded enthusiastically. Dobromila Synak, part of the school’s Interact Club, said “I really like to help other people and the
Leeds Federated Housing Association has been pedalling hard to raise money for Leeds South Foodbank. Staff competed in the ‘Tour de Leeds Fed’ challenge and rode the 390km distance of this summer’s Yorkshire Tour on exercise bikes over two days. The event was part of a health and wellbeing
The Council’s Inner South Area Committee met last night (5 February 2014) approving a range of grants and reviewing their work programme, as well as hearing from residents during the Open Forum. £5,000 was approved, in principle, for Health For All to carry out a feasibility study into the
The growth of food banks has been really noticeable in the last few years. In our city there are now five open or about to start work, including one operating in South Leeds. Across Yorkshire and Humberside the number of people – adults and children – needing help from
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. “The first Holbeck community firework display of the century” is how The Holbeck Neighbourhood Plan website is reporting Saturday’s bonfire and fireworks outside Holbeck Working Men’s Club. Note the word “first” …
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week with some very worrying photos on Skelton Grange Environment Centre’s Facebook Page. It looks like something’s gone wrong at the Experimental Viruses division of The Skelton Corporation. Could
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Hunslet St Mary’s blog keep’s us up to date with life in the primary school. This week we learned the outcome of the School council elections – congratulations to all the successful
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Attention art lovers, there is an exhibition at Temple Works in Holbeck this weekend. “Journeys in Asia” by Toby Latham is previewed on The Culture Vulture blog by Emily Hughes: “For me