What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Last month saw the fourth annual Community Camp in Middleton Park, with 45 local residents camping overnight together on the weekend of 16 and 17 September 2017 in the park. Here’s Olga Deumeni Torres’ (aged 11) account: I have been participating in this event for four years, and each year
Police have confirmed that that they are not treating as suspicious the death of a man whose body was found in a park in South Leeds on Wednesday (6 September 2017). Officers were called to Middleton Park shortly after 11am following the discovery of the man’s body. A post mortem
The annual South Leeds Community Camp returns to Middleton Park this month, overnight on Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 September (2017). This free family event is now in its fourth year, and gives local people – especially families – the chance to try camping, meet new people, and get inspired
The Leeds Branch of the Young Archaeolgists Club (YAC) recently undertook a new excavation of an ice house, at Middleton Park, Leeds which once belonged to the former Middleton Lodge. YAC is the only UK-wide club for people under the age of 16 who are interested in archaeology. An invitation was extended the York and
Seven sites across Leeds have hit the heights and been recognised with an internationally recognised green award. Celebrating the very best green spaces across the United Kingdom, Middleton Park, Otley Chevin, Pudsey Park, Golden Acre Park, Kirkstall Abbey, Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam estate have once again being honoured with
What improvements would you like to see at the children’s playground in Middleton Park? That’s the question being asked by Friends of Middleton Park and Leeds City Council. The groups have devised a short online survey to get your views and guide their plans. They want to know what types
Bumps and Babes are thrilled to be running their ‘Bumps and Buggy Fit’ sessions for the third time at Middleton Park over the Summer, as part of a portfolio of health, fitness and education programmes they deliver throughout Leeds. Sharon Wilkinson and Shelley Madden (Specialist Midwives for Bumps and Babes and
10 Minutes That Could Change Your Life With Coronary Heart Disease remaining the single biggest killer in the UK, friendship group Leeds Oddfellows is inviting local residents to take action, ditch the slippers and join them at their upcoming healthy heart outing to Middleton Park in South Leeds on Sunday
The Friends of Middleton Park brought the Northern Kite Group to the Clearings once again this weekend (20-21 May 2017) for the annual Kite Festival. The South Leeds skies were littered with giant ladybirds, fish, pigs, jellyfish and was it a purple teddy bear or a fox? The huge kites
The Friends of Middleton Park’s summer programme of activities starts this Bank Holiday Monday (1 May 2017) with escorted walks through the bluebell woods. Volunteers will greet passengers from the 11am, 1pm and 2:40pm trains on Middleton Railway at the top station, Park Halt. The guided stroll to the Visitor