What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Santa and his helpers are making a few extra early stops in Leeds to deliver a very special present to primary school pupils. Throughout December, the council’s safe and sustainable travel team are visiting schools across Leeds to educate and entertain pupils with their road safety pantomime, ‘The Gift of
St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston have announced that this year’s show will be a re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. The show, another brand new script written and produced by Rachel George, will run from Saturday 20 January through to Saturday 3 February 2024 at St Andrew’s Community
St Andrew’s Methodist Church, on Old Lane in Beeston celebrated its 60th anniversary on Sunday 6 November 2016. Both current and former members attended a service of celebration and thanksgiving led by the Rev Paul Bettison. Paul was brought up in Beeston and remembers visiting the new St Andrew’s as a
I went along to check how rehearsals were going for the Hunslet Club pantomime – Peter Pan. It was late on Saturday afternoon when I arrived and the Club was quiet, the lull between afternoon matches and evening entertainment. I found my way up to the dance studio where twenty
The Hunslet Club has announced that it is to revive an old tradition of hosting a community pantomime in December 2016. For over 75 years The Hunslet Club has been at the heart of the South Leeds community and in its ‘Boys Club’ days pantomime was at the heart of
By day Ian Noble dons his nurse’s scrubs and embarks on another day of caring for the sick and injured people of Leeds, however, for the next fortnight the Nurse by day will paint himself blue and become a terrible Ogre by night! The Pantomime at St Andrew’s is a
Simon Forster from the St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston has been in touch about this year’s production (Oh yes he has!): Have you ever wondered what your cat would say if it could talk? Or what life as a cobbler would be like? Or maybe you’ve always wanted to
As Christmas approaches, thoughts turn to cross dressing actors, bad jokes and lots of songs – it must be time for a pantomime! Once again the St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston will be putting on a show and this year they’ve chosen Red Riding Hood. This will be
A South Leeds community group has been named as one of just forty recipients of a prestigious community initiative award. The Duke of York’s Community Initiative is presented annually to a small number of Yorkshire based organisations that having been subjected to rigorous and robust scrutiny are deemed: “of
The St Andrew’s Pantomime is a fixture on the Beeston social calendar. The group have staged a production every year for over forty years. Many of the cast and crew that staged “Aladdin” back in 1970 are still involved and one of them, Steven Roddy, is still acting! “I can’t