What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Bernard Richardson celebrated the VE Day bank holiday yesterday (8 May 2020) with fish and chips, a treat he hadn’t had for weeks due to the current lockdown. Sam Ely from Middleton Elderly Aid delivered a personalised balloon donated by Sense of Occasion party shop in Beeston, together with a
South Leeds Live At Home Scheme (SLLAHS) had planned to hold a party to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day today (8 May 2020). With the Coronavirus lockdown their members couldn’t come together, so SLLAHS took the party to their members. Yesterday a team of volunteers took packs including
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) commemorates the day on which allied forces formally announced the surrender of Nazi Germany, drawing the Second World War in Europe to a close. This year, when VE dawns on Friday (8 May 2020), it will mark 75 years since the UK first celebrated
South Leeds Live At Home Scheme has issued a plea for help from local children ahead of next Friday’s VE Day commemoration. The organisation, which supports older people in the Beeston, Cottingley and Hunslet areas, will be hand delivering afternoon tea to their members’ homes, but they are asking children