What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds-based finance recruitment consultancy Headstar has partnered with Zarach, a children’s bed charity, to tackle bed poverty by providing vital support to local families in need. As part of its Donate A Day initiative, seven Headstar employees helped deliver more than 40 beds to children across Leeds and Bradford who
The Hunslet Club in South Leeds is a not-for-profit youth organisation and registered Charity with over 3,270 members. With over 100 activity sessions per week, The Hunslet Club does everything it can to enrich the lives of young people in the local and surrounding areas. We want to continue benefiting
The Middleton Railway is delighted to announce its Youth Team has been shortlisted in the Heritage Railway Association annual awards. A new category for 2023, the ‘Rising Stars’ Award recognises the achievements of an organisation or group that is less than ten years old. The Youth Team has been running
Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 21 January, reflecting on another successful event in 2022 and looking ahead to 2023. The Annual Report, which is now available to read and download on the festival website at beestonfestival.org.uk, details how the organising committee plan their work and reflected
Every Wednesday morning a team descends on the Holbeck club and the Slung Low foodbank springs into life. As we’ve reported previously, when the pandemic hit last year, Slung Low redirected their theatrical skills from organising shows to running a foodbank for people in LS11 and beyond. I’m proud to
Can a community change? All of our neighbourhoods locally are blighted with some level of littering and flytipping – but the Beeston Hill area is probably one of the hardest hit. A team of volunteers and residents – led by local campaigner Ed Carlisle and the local Green Party –
First things first. Many congratulations to Leeds United on winning the Championship and being promoted to the Premier League. It’s been a long wait, but a bright future beckons now that the club is back where it belongs. I recently watched a television programme on the career of Marcelo Bielsa.
Beeston and Holbeck Councillors have welcomed the council and community groups coming together to offer a fantastic service to local residents. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many important community spaces were closed to keep people safe. This led to multiple teams and services having to explore new ways of
Since Coronavirus hit, thousands of volunteers have been working out of community hubs to keep vulnerable people safe with food parcels, prescriptions and welfare checks. I went along to the Involve Centre in Hunslet to speak to three people volunteering there, at a safe distance. Oscar Knights had recently finished
South-Leeds, not-for-profit organisation, Holbeck Together has launched a #VirtualKindness campaign to help care for the most vulnerable members of the community and to reach out to volunteers for support to manage the influx of new clients as a result of the current crisis. #VirtualKindness aims to raise awareness of community