What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Today (8 March 2021), Leeds College of Building is joining others globally in supporting the International Women’s Day campaign ‘Choose To Challenge.’ The College has made great strides in pushing gender parity in construction. Female apprentices at Leeds College of Building have also grown from 33 in 2014 to 190
Are you aged 16-25 and enjoy the outdoors? Not in Employment, Education or Training? This programme could be for you. The Prince’s Trust, in partnership with Continental Landscapes Ltd, has an exciting new programme that is perfect for those who enjoy the outdoors, want to develop their horticultural skills, or
We all know that looking after our wellbeing and mental health is even more critical than ever during these times of lockdown and social distancing. Humans Being is offering six week online wellbeing courses during 2021, and is looking for organisations in South Leeds who would be interested in partnering
The Raising Aspirations team at Health For All are running a number of small face to face groups starting next week. The team’s aim is to help people living in South Leeds get into education, training and employment Confidence Building & Overcoming Barriers Mondays 9 November until 14 December, 10am-12pm
Kick Start is a new programme from Active Leeds aimed at helping people into work, education or training. The intensive, eight session programme runs over two weeks, and starts on Tuesday (29 September 2020). Most sessions are held at the John Charles Centre for Sport, with two at Herd Farm
Local unemployed people in South Leeds who live with learning difficulties are invited to take up the offer of a free place on a gardening and allotment course to support their efforts to find employment or training. The course aims to help individuals gain new skills as well as improving
Would you like to cycle more, but aren’t confident to ride on the road? Or perhaps you’ve never learned to ride a bike would like to now? Help is at hand with free weekly sessions running at John Charles Centre for Sport and in Cross Flatts Park. In the two
Free socially distant one-to-one adult cycle training from the front door is being made available to help people living and working in West Yorkshire to cycle to work or college. The cycle training scheme is being delivered as part of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s CityConnect programme, which is aimed
“Starting A-Fresh” is a 6 month programme designed specifically for those who are unemployed and would like to improve their chances of obtaining work and run by Skills 4 Work. Based at Cranmore Drive in Belle Isle it consists of some basic fundamental modules in Maths, English and IT skills,
Get Your Act Together: The National Lottery funds local music charity to support young people The National Lottery has given a grant to South Leeds based music and education charity Cloth Cat to provide life changing opportunities through music to young people from the city. Get Your Act Together will