What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Street Skate Together is part of Civic Skateboarding – a project by artist and skateboarder Harry Meadley produced for Leeds 2023 Year of Culture. At its core, Civic Skateboarding is about forming better relationships between skateboarders and Leeds’ civic and cultural institutions with the long-term goal of making the city’s
People from across Leeds and the region are rallying to rescue the former Works Skatepark in Hunslet, with the centre set to reopen this week. As previously reported, the skatepark charity ceased trading and closed at the start of the month, due to financial difficulties. But the immediate outcry online
The acclaimed Works skatepark in Hunslet are inviting young people from across south Leeds to come try their hand at skateboarding, scooting and BMXing this summer – for just £3 for the whole day, any day. Youngsters are welcome anytime between 10am-8pm any Monday to Friday, and 10am-7pm Saturdays and
Pioneering Hunslet-based youth charity The Works marked the end of the year with a bang and a party this week, and publicly launched an innovative range of new community programmes for 2015. Based in an epic old Victorian mill and now in its eleventh year, the charity boasts the biggest
Why isn’t there a skate park in Beeston or the death box brought back at Holbeck? Hunslet, Cottingley and Holbeck have skate parks so why can’t Beeston? This post was written by Ryan using our Create an article for South Leeds Life page. What do you think? Does
This summer ‘The Works Skatepark Charity’ will be running the highly successful ‘£3 summer’. The Programme sees the doors of The Works opened from 10am to 8pm for £3 all day every day of the summer holidays 23 July – 1 September 2014. The Works is an indoor skatepark
A new skate park in Holbeck opened its gates to excited local youngsters on Friday after being re-located from its original location. Holbeck Skatepark, which was officially opened to the public by local councillor, David Congreve on Friday morning, has been relocated to Holbeck Moor from the South Leeds Sports
An event is being held to celebrate the launch of a new skatepark social enterprise in south Leeds Hunslet-based The Works Skatepark Charity has taken official ownership of the Leeds Skatepark Company. The skatepark covers 35,000 square foot and boasts professional and bespoke ramps and is used for BMXing, skateboarding, rollerblading and scooter