What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Building Pathways Event will examine how to unleash the potential of disengaged, disaffected youth to fill the construction industry skills gap. In order to help encourage the younger generation into the construction industry, Youthbuild UK is holding a Building Pathways event in Leeds on 18 March. The event, sponsored
What’s on at BITMOs GATE in March 2015. March at the GATE. Each month we have a range of activities, events and courses available for FREE at BITMOs GATE, which is the new resource centre next to Belle Isle TMO’s housing office on Belle Isle Road. HERE ARE SOME OF THE
Young people are being to urged to grab the opportunities on offer at a Connexions Opportunities Day this Friday (22 August 2014). Young people aged 16 – 19 who are not in education, training or employment or have just finished Y11, are invited to call in to the Connexions
We are a small voluntary constituted user led group based in Middleton, South Leeds called ‘design & print united’. The aims of the group are to promote the health and well being of people with mental health problems learning disabilities BME communities disadvantaged groups, ex convicts by breaking down
The Bayford Foundation is giving second chances to people who wouldn’t normally get an interview for a sales job. I recently visited and spoke to June Forsyth, the enthusiastic leader of the foundation. BE Fuel Cards operates out an anonymous office unit on an industrial park close to the
Get into Painting & Decorating The Prince’s Trust is now recruiting for its Get into Painting & Decorating programme run in partnership with Leeds College of Building, in Leeds. Get into Painting & Decorating aims to give young people a mixture of practical training and qualifications, that will allow
Local people in South Leeds can Kick Start a career in construction with a course offering onsite work experience, practical skills training and the opportunity to gain a Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card. Leeds Federated is working in partnership with their repairs and maintenance partner Keepmoat Property Services
On Wednesday (12 February 2014) the Connexions South Team are opening a new drop-in at Hillside on Beeston Road (opposite the Greenhouse and just up from St Luke’s Primary School). At the drop in young people in the south of the city will be able to speak to a
Local music charity Cloth Cat is encouraging South Leeds residents to “find the music in you”. They have set up a new programme of practical music courses which start this month. The courses are designed to help people in inner city Leeds to develop new skills and find ways
BITMO’s GATE – the new community resource centre in the old Belle Isle library building – was formally opened on Friday (25 October 2013) by Hilary Benn MP. [slideshow_deploy id=’20104′] Photos by Kenneth Ingram Speaking before he cut the ribbon, Hilary Benn praised BITMO for its vision in creating