What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Kurdish House community association, based in south Leeds, are taking on a very big new challenge for 2025 – and want everyone to get onboard! The group – co-led by prolific local volunteer Rebwar Sharazure – have been litterpicking across Leeds and beyond for many years, and have picked
Saturday (16 September 2023) was World Cleanup Day. To mark the occasion, Friends of New Forest Plantation arranged an event for local residents. The event was a great success. Despite a recent litter pick there was a further 19 bags of rubbish collected by local residents. There was a wide
Music Federation staff and families have joined forces with Hunslet TARA (Tenants and Residents Association) to help clean up the local environment. Low Road and Windmill Music Federation School council identified the need for keeping the school and local community environments clean and tidy. Understanding that it’s not just the look,
Wonderful weather, great camaraderie, and a good cause brought out the best in people when volunteers got together at Cottingley Crematorium on Saturday (12 March 2022). Thirty people collected twenty-five bags of litter from the site. Everyone was raring to get started and it was lovely to have some very
Meet Dora Szele-Menyhart, a soon to be 11 year old with a birthday wish to help the environment. Dora has organised ten of her friends, that’s eleven 11 year olds, to undertake a sponsored litter pick along the River Aire in Hunslet. They aim to collect 11 bags of rubbish.
A community-led campaign which is taking positive action to tackle the scourge of littering in Leeds is aiming to turn Leeds into a sea of purple this Saturday (3 July 2021). This follows the success of the Litter Free Leeds movement, which working closely in partnership with Leeds City Council,
Asda and The Canal and River Trust have taken to the waters of the Leeds & Liverpool canal today to kick start a week-long litter pick which will involve hundreds of colleagues from Asda. The ‘Asda Big Canal Clean-up’ is one of the country’s largest ever, as volunteers aim to
After my recent election campaign, I have been sat reflecting and realising that many of the issues in our community can be fixed by simply trying to motivate our community to come together and make the changes needed to make our area better. What better way of doing this than
Beeston and Holbeck Kidz Klub are holding a community litter-pick on Tuesday 21 May 2019 – and would love others to come and help! Attendees should come to Beeston Hill United Free Church on Malvern Road for a briefing at 4:45pm, before going out at 5pm – then returning to
As the Friends of Hunslet Moor, we love this large patch of green space in the middle of our community. It provides somewhere for children to play, people to walk their dogs, and for others, somewhere to simply enjoy green space. Sadly, a mixture of people not caring about litter,