What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds Life has been running regular News Cafés for the last year, but what exactly is a News Café? As you probably know South Leeds Life is run by volunteers, on a shoestring budget. We work from our homes and don’t have an office. Which means if you want
As we head into August you might notice a slow down on the South Leeds Life website. In case you weren’t aware, all our contributors are volunteers and just like everyone else we have families and summer holidays. We are scaling back our activities so you will see fewer stories
What’s Happening At BITMOs GATE In February 2016. Each month we have a range of activities, events and courses available for free at BITMOs GATE, which is the new resource centre next to Belle Isle TMO’s housing office on Belle Isle Road. Here are some of the things happening in
Join us for our regular new News Cafe in Beeston. The News Cafe is a very simple idea: volunteers from South Leeds Life will be in the cafe and happy to talk to you about what’s going on locally. It’s not so much a debating society, more a chance for
Went along to the Easter Egg hunt for the children at BITMOs GATE which coincided with the South Leeds Life News Café. It was packed with families and excited children. Always wonderful to see. The Easter Eggs and treats where donated by Radio Aire’s Charity Cash 4 Kids. Well
I met a lovely woman who we’ll call Trisha at the News Café on Tuesday, but her story worried me. Trisha has long term mental health issues and lives in supported accommodation in Hunslet. She came along to the News Café at the suggestion of her support worker. She was
South Leeds Life are starting up two weekly News Cafes where you can come and chat with the Editor and some of our volunteers. The News Cafes will run on Tuesdays at Hillside’s Feel Good Café in Beeston and on Friday at BITMOs GATE in Belle Isle. Both sessions
The next meeting of the South Leeds Life Group will be held on Wednesday. You may recall the group was founded last month to build on nthe success the blog’s had over the past 18 months or so. Anyone living in South Leeds is more than welcome to come to our meetings
An early heads up! Come and meet the folks behind South Leeds Life blog at our regular community news cafes! The cafes are your chance to tell your stories, let us know what’s going on and – if you’re interested – we can help support you to write your own
These are busy times for us here at South Leeds Life and we thought we’d provide you with a quick update on some of the stuff we’re doing. The deadline for the second issue of South Leeds Life magazine is this Friday, so if you’ve got anything you’d like to contribute