Tag: Skelton Grange Environment Centre

South Leeds Roundup: Ponds, Piles, People & Property

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton where Toby Roberts tells the story of the creation of the big new dipping pond in a new

South Leeds Roundup: Peaks, Parks and Promotion

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start with that community walk over the Three Peaks of Yorkshire, it’s all over the web. Debs Davies has written for us about the Three Peaks walk, and she’s

Taste of the Wild at Skelton Grange

  Wild leaf salad with a fruit vinaigrette dressing, accompanied by home baked nettle seed bread and followed by elderberry and almond tart anybody? This Saturday (20 September 2014) Craig Worrall of Edible Leeds will be leading a Wild Food Walk around Skelton Grange Environment Centre’s beautiful wildlife area. Berries

South Leeds Roundup: Strength games, swifts and scything skills

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Hunslet. Never mind ‘The World’s Stongest Man’, The Live Well Project were putting local children through their paces. Events included mini Strongman events including Kettlebell

South Leeds Roundup: Building sites, bushcraft and ballet

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Safety on building sites was on the curriculum for children from Beeston Hill St Luke’s, Greenmount and Hunslet Moor primary schools when they met Keepmoat Ken recently. Keepmoat are the main contractor

Skelton Grange thanks its volunteers with the Lord Mayor of Leeds

  This year is the 30th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) and to celebrate Skelton Grange Environment Centre in south Leeds has lots of volunteering opportunities going on. Three of the days are being led by Skelton Grange’s current team of dedicated Volunteer Officers as they teach Leeds primary

South Leeds Roundup: Meadows, Menus and Media

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week in a wildflower meadow in … Holbeck. It might surprise some people in the city, but parts of Holbeck have been imaginatively planted with wild flowers. Holbeck in