What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
People living in South Leeds are set to benefit from fresh investment into local grassroots sports facilities thanks to a £600k grant from the Football Foundation. This investment will enable Hamara to build a new leisure and wellbeing facility and create a new 3G Multi sports pitch. These improved facilities
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has secured a grant of £300,000 from the Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities – Community Ownership Fund. The grant will allow Hamara to move the development of the Old Cockburn Sports Hall forward towards Construction of The Cockburn Centre early 2024. Hamara’s vision is
Being active takes so many forms and means assorted things to different people. South Leeds is full of ways that all ages can move, have fun and find something that feels good for them. This month Get Set Leeds Local takes a deeper dive into cricket, and the ways that
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has launched a buy-a-brick campaign as part of its plans to raise funds to redevelop the Old Cockburn Sports Hall in Hunslet Moor. Hamara took over the hall in 2016 and have developed plans to recreate it as The Cockburn Centre, which will be an innovative,
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has won a grant of £300,000 from independent trust Power to Change. The grant, part of the trust’s Community Business Fund, will allow Hamara to move the development of the Old Cockburn Sports Hall forward towards planning and detailed designs. Hamara’s vision is to renovate the
The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation are starting two new weekly cricket sessions for women and girls in South Leeds this month. A fun fitness session called Cardio Cricket kicks off on Saturday (11 January 2020) 1:15-3:15pm. Cardio Cricket involves fun games and fitness. Lauren Mudd from Yorkshire Cricket Foundation said: “Come
Getting up at 6am to go for a run shows discipline and dedication. Do it for 401 days in a row and you might say it’s madness. But for Loran Lewis, the founder and director of Let’s Do More CIC (LDM), it was just the start of his project to
Young people aged between 8 and 18 in Beeston and Holbeck will be able to continue to take advantage of a project delivered by the Leeds United Foundation and funded by local Councillors Andrew Scopes, Angela Gabriel and Gohar Almass. The Premier League Kicks project targets young people who traditionally
If you don’t fancy exercise bikes and weights rooms, have you thought about getting your exercise by gardening at a ‘Green Gym’? As well as (gentle) exercise, going to the Green Gym is a great way to learn new skills and meet new people. Working on an allotment plot you
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