What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Hunslet Remembered group (facilitated by Leeds Libraries and in partnership with South Leeds Live at Home) took a trip down memory lane last month and visited areas of Hunslet that brought back memories of their childhood. Using augmented reality on iPads they could see images from www.leodis.net of what
Southleeds Liveathome We are looking for unused bottles of anything like cosmetics, pop and most importantly ALCOHOL. This is after the huge sell out success of our tombola stall at the Beeston Festival last year which helped raised £550 towards helping the older people in our community. If you fancy
An exhibition based on local people’s memories of Hunslet and Stourton opens on Thursday at Hunslet Library, off Church Street. Communities Librarian Rachel Benn writes: Join us to launch this exhibition sharing the memories of people who grew up in the area of Hunslet and Stourton. These memories are people’s
Leeds Libraries has trialled a series of Hour of Code workshops with Over 60s in partnership with South Leeds Live at Home. The main objective of the sessions was to use digital technology to promote the health benefits that mind-stimulating activities have on older people. Their coding activities for children
Do you remember Hunslet Grange? This is the question that Gill Crawshaw and Louise Dwyer, students at Leeds Arts University, put to members of Holbeck Elderly Aid’s memory café last month. They tell us why they were asking and what got them interested in Leek Street Flats. We are both
International Day of Older People to be celebrated across South Leeds Yesterday (Sunday 1 October 2017) was the International Day of Older Persons and the theme this year is: ‘Diversity of Older People’. All sorts of exciting events will take place across South Leeds this week. TRINITY NETWORK On Tuesday 3
Fifty Beeston residents came together yesterday (13 September 2017) to share food and friendship at an event organised by Aspiring Communities and South Leeds Live At Home. A group of volunteers served a mouth-watering selection of Asian food provided by Aspiring Communities including bhaji, curries, rice, chapatti and a sweet
Members, staff and volunteers from South Leeds Live At Home scheme turned out at Hunslet Morrisons last Sunday (30 April 2017) for a sponsored bike ride. With two exercise bikes loaned by Pure Gym, they set out to ride 100 miles in relay. In fact they doubled that distance and
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 on Maud Avenue in Beeston, where The Inner South Neighbourhood Policing Team followed up information from the public to make arrests and seize a car in relation
I met up with Sean Sturman and Susan Oldroyd, two of the administrators of the Save Our Beeston Facebook group, to find out about their latest charitable venture Helping People In Beeston. The scheme helps people by marrying people in need of help with volunteers and springs from the Save