What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Parents, babies and professionals will be taking part in events across Leeds to celebrate Baby Week, a weeklong celebration of early childhood, from Tuesday (14 November 2023). Celebrating differences, understanding cultures, and taking inspiration from art, play, and self-identity are the core ideas running throughout the week, with this year’s
St Luke’s CARES are running another of their popular Retail Skills courses at their Dewsbury Road charity shop starting on Tuesday 29 January 2019. The free course runs over seven weeks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am-2pm with a break for half term week. You’ll learn all about volunteering and
It’s the second Leeds Baby Week after South Leeds Life’s own Lucy Potter brought the idea back from her study trip to Brazil. The week–long celebration of the first years of life includes academic and professional seminars as well as hands on sessions for parents babies and toddlers. Here in
South Leeds Life volunteer Lucy Potter and colleague Sadiya Salim (child friendly Leeds worker) took part in a fire walk on Wednesday 24 November in Victoria Gardens. It was to help raise money and awareness for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund and congenital heart disease. The charity which supports the
Crowds flocked to enjoy the sunshine at the Middleton Music and Folk Festival on Sunday (17 July 2016). All photos by Lucy Potter The event was organised by the Friends of Middleton Park and Leeds Music Trust and featured bands Sounds Like A Storm and Songo Drumming Project as well
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Have you ever blogged on a boat? Leeds Waterfront Festival is inviting bloggers to an event tomorrow (Thursday 22 May) at 5pm. The idea is to explore the waterfront venues and blog
Lucy Potter is a family support worker, community activist and Mum from Beeston in Leeds. She was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to investigate how the Children’s Services in Leeds could improve parental engagement for hard-to-reach families in urban areas of social deprivation. Lucy’s travels took her to New
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Spring is definitely springing this week and Leeds Parks have published this great photo of frogspawn in the lake at Middleton Park. Speaking of photos, The Culture Vulture has some proper photographs
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
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We’ll start with sad news from Friends of Holbeck Cemetery who report on the removal of their viewing platform. The platform provided possibly the best view in Leeds, but suffered from vandalism