What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Now I’m not a woman, but I do celebrate International Women’s Day, which is today. And I prefer it to Mothers Day, or Mothering Sunday as it was called when I grew up, which falls on Sunday. My mother was a feminist, the first in her family to go to
Leeds Dynamite, the Middleton based cheerleading group recently brought back nine trophies from Cheltenham as Western Champions 2013. The group took 39 dancers to the BCA Western Regional Cheerleading Competition, which was held at Cheltenham Race Course on Sunday 24th February. The dancers ages ranged from 5 to 38 years
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. We don’t often quote Leeds Student, but they ventured to Holbeck to review Slung Low Theatre’s productions of Beulah and Some Small Love Story at their home, the HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom, under the viaduct).
As previously reported on South Leeds Life, tenants claiming housing benefit will be penalised if they have more bedrooms than they are deemed to need. Hilary Benn MP has today highlighted National Housing Federation (NHF) figures which show that 2,687 households in the Leeds Central constituency will be hit by
The newly formed Hunslet Club & Parkside Academy Under 8s Team played there first game on Sunday 3rd March against a much more experienced East Leeds team. After a nervous start the Hunslet Club & Parkside Academy team found their feet and started to produce the rugby skills they have learned
Caroline McNeill, Volunteer Officer at Skelton Grange Environment Centre, has been in touch with news of an inspiring project: Can you look back fondly at a childhood spent playing in the great outdoors? Do you recall the fun of dangling from trees? Or the unimaginable thrill of coming across some
A new apprenticeship scheme will offer creative young people the chance to take their first steps into a multi-media career. The one-year apprenticeships, funded by Leeds Federated Housing Association and Aire Valley Homes Leeds, will offer up to four young social housing tenants aged 16 – 24 the opportunity to
I met a housing manager whilst reporting on the community clean ups this week. “I live in Beeston myself” she said “so this is important to me”. I’ve been lucky enough to work in my own neighbourhood, Beeston, for most of the last thirteen years. It’s not just talking about
There was a great turnout for the latest community clean up organised as part of the Love Beeston? Clean Beeston! campaign on Thursday. About twenty local people teamed up with thirty pupils, parents and teachers from Park View Primary Academy (formerly Cross Flatts Park Primary School) and staff from the
Thirty people attended a meeting organised by South Leeds Life last night to hear about the history of Stank Hall Barn and discuss what could be done to preserve it. As the meeting progressed, led first by Frank Goddard from Beeston Local History Society an then added to in discussion,