What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A campaign fighting to get South Leeds Sports Centre reopened has issued a call to arms for local residents and businesses to back a potential bid to take the centre into community ownership. The sports centre closed in November 2010 – despite a local campaign to save it – and now
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
Ambitious plans to open a new community cafe and a hairdressers on the Cardinal Estate have been boosted by an unexpected source – Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire TV programme. Community campaigner Yvonne Crowther, who helps run the White Rose Residents Association, is looking to luanch two new social enterprises
A pioneering store in Hunslet that sells affordable furniture to people on low incomes has received a much needed financial boost, thanks to local councillors. Cllr Angela Gabriel (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) says she is delighted that her colleagues on the South (Inner) Area Committee have recognised the work that
I started working at SLATE at the end of November and I’ve been very impressed by what this small social enterprise achieves. SLATE has three goals: – to provide employment and volunteering opportunities to people with learning difficulties – to provide a source of reasonably priced, second hand furniture to
A social enterprise has proved it’s got legs after winning its biggest ever contract. Re:Work Office Furniture, which sells used and new recycled office furniture, is celebrating the £30,000 contract to kit out Health for All’s new Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre in Middleton. After nearly four years of trading,