What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Good morning South Leeds! Here’s a slightly abridged roundup of what’s been making South Leeds tick over the past week on the area’s top websites, blogs and Facebook. The centrepiece of a £2million revamp of Middleton Park has finally been completed after bad weather caused building delays, reports the YEP. The
What a fabulous view of South Leeds and beyond those community stalwarts Dennis Kitchen and Ian Pickup have! The duo, who are the brains behind The Voice of Holbeck, Holbeck in Bloom and Friends of Holbeck Social Club, live on the top floor in Crescent Towers at the bottom of
Here on South Leeds Life we always try to accentuate the many positive things that happen in our area – after all, there are plenty of other news sites all too ready to ignorantly run down our community, right? There is a lot of positive stuff going on in the
Holbeck knows how to party! 13 of the area’s community groups got together over the Jubilee weekend to hold a party. Organiser Ian Pickup tells South Leeds Life that the event, in St Matthew’s Community Centre, had a visitor in the form of the Deputy Lord Lieutenant Major Stan Hardy. Hilary
Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s making south Leeds tick on the area’s blogs and websites. Councillors, police and Aire Valley Homes officers will be present at tonight’s meeting to discuss local issues at the Cottingley TRAC group meeting at Cottingley Primary School (7pm). The need to reopen the estate’s
Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on the area’s blogs, websites and news outlets. Our friends at the Voice of Holbeck blog say tickets for their jubilee event next month are going quickly – and they also preview their next community meeting. The Friends of Middleton
Holbeck is set to come together to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer. There will be a free jubilee party held at St Matthew’s Community Centre on June 2 from 6pm. Entry will strictly be by ticket only and entrance includes a buffet, entertainment, bingo and raffle. It’s open
Holbeck community issues will be discussed at a meeting of the Voice of Holbeck Group tonight. The meeting starts at 7pm at Cleveleys Court and Holbeck residents interetsed in local issues are urged to attend.
“People just don’t seem to think it’s their responsibility to clean up after their animal,” says Dennis Kitchen. “They think they can just leave it for someone else to clear up.” South Leeds Life caught up with two local groups – the Voice of Holbeck and Friends of Holbeck Cemetery
Local resident Ian Pickup posts on details of an initiative to make Holbeck a tidier place with six new bins… Holbeck in Bloom contacted all the groups of Holbeck to ask to donate £100 towards three little bins, the cost of each bin being £350. We got such a good response