What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Staying warm this winter may be a challenge for some with rising utility bills. So it’s good to know that the Belle Isle Welcome Centre at St John & St Barnabas Church is now providing a warm space Monday to Friday 9am-1pm. You’ll find a welcoming smile and free hot
St. Luke’s CARES charity shop, situated on Dewsbury Road, caters for the community by selling good quality second-hand furniture, bric-a-brac, white goods, and electricals. What you may not know is that for the past 8 years St Luke’s has also been running its very own free community retail course. St
We are pleased to say that our community space, upstairs at our shop on Dewsbury Road, has undergone significant improvements to promote safety and hygiene and the overall functionality. These improvements have made the area considerably more organised and inviting. Thanks to a grant from the Inner South Community Committee,
The ‘Save Money, Save The Planet’ campaign being run by St Luke’s CARES is holding an ‘Upcycling’ competition and there are cash prizes up for grabs. Upcycling repurposes unwanted materials and turns them into something great. The competition is for people to craft something from items that would otherwise go
On Wednesday morning (30 August 2023) as staff and volunteers were sorting through donations at St Luke’s CARES cgarity shop on Dewsbury Road they discovered ancient hand grenade amongst a box of plates. The items had been collected from the Reuse container at the Pudsey Recycling site. Unsure as to
St Luke’s CARES hosted a Community Cinema Exhibition at their Dewsbury Road charity shop last month. The building the shop now occupies was built as the Pavilion cinema. Although most traces of the building’s former life have been lost over the years, you can still see the coving around the
The St Luke’s CARES charity shop on Dewsbury Road in Beeston now has an accessable toilet thanks to funding provided by Councillors on the Inner South Community Committee. Shop manager Sally Thums said: “We’re very grateful to Hunslet & Riverside’s Cllr Mohammed Iqbal, Cllr Ed Carlisle and Cllr Paul Wray
School Uniform Swap LS11 has been running for over a year with regular stalls at the Watsonia Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park over the summer. The swap does what is says on the tin, collected unwanted items of pre-loved school uniform and offering it for free (or a small donation)
A day of collaboration between two Leeds’ organisations on Friday (16 December 2022) saw over £800 raised for Getting Clean CIC – a project which supports and guides recovering addicts who want to give back to the community. St Lukes’s Cares charity shop, on Dewsbury Road, Beeston invited Getting Clean
St Luke’s CARES, which runs activity groups for young people as well as a charity shop on Dewsbury Road, is organising a meeting for local people to come together to share skills, ideas, and strategies as to how we confront these challenges as a community. Sally Thumbs, one of the