South Leeds Life

As the Hunslet Club finishes the 2012/13 Football Season it’s time to sum up the highlights of it’s achievements this year, which once again have been fantastic. The Football For Tots sessions on Wednesdays & Thursdays have been thriving with our stars of the future enjoying their first taste of the game, well done to them. Newcomers are [...]

  The Luncheon club is held every Tuesday for the elderly residents of Belle Isle sheltered housing, and is run by BITMO. We meet from 11:00am until 1:00pm at Sheltered Housing Luncheon Club, 58 Belle Isle Circus, Belle Isle, Leeds, LS10 3HW Come and join us every Tuesday for lunch, which we order (for them [...]

The recently launched Hunslet Club & Parkside Rugby Academy now has an expanded programme of training sessions from pre-school through to year 9 at their facilities in South Leeds. These two clubs with long established roots in rugby league, having taught the likes of Jason Robinson (now Honorary Patron of the Academy) and many other professional [...]

Zumba-fever appears to be gripping South Leeds with two new events coming up. Zumba is a high energy exercise that uses to dance music. On Saturday 11th May, Middleton Methodist Church will host a Zumbathon from 10:00am to 12:00pm. – are invited to come and “party in pink” to raise money for The Haven, which [...]

A Trolleybus question and answer session was held at Belle Isle Family Centre yesterday (1st May). I went to this session as the new Trolleybus route (if the plans are passed) will come down my street, Winrose Grove. I was surprised by the lack of local people at the event. Winrose Grove is a very narrow [...]

Drop-in sessions for people in south Leeds wanting to find out more about the planned NGT trolleybus network take place on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd May. People can come along to discuss the project with the NGT team between 5:30pm and 7:30pm at St John & St Barnabas Church’s Belle Isle Family Centre on [...]

South Leeds Youth Hub could soon be run by a community group after senior councillors gave the go ahead to start looking for local organisations to run it. At yesterday’s meeting of Leeds City Council’s executive board, members agreed that officers could start the Community Asset Transfer process for the hub in Belle Isle from [...]

It’s free family film night again this Friday in Belle Isle. Health For All’s Family Support Service and Menspace are presenting Ice Age: Continental Drift at Belle Isle Family Centre on Friday. The free show starts at 5:30pm and the cafe will be open from 5:00pm serving a range of affordable food and snacks. Children [...]

On the packed agenda for the meeting of the Executive Board this Wednesday is a report to approve the start of a process which could lead to the transfer of the South Leeds Youth Hub to a not for profit organisation. The Hub was developed on a small part of the former Merlyn Rees School [...]

Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) is currently refurbishing the former Neighbourhood Centre on Windmill Road that is adjacent to the entrance of Windmill Primary School. Morrison FS who are carrying out the work on behalf of BITMO are adapting the existing building to create a pair of spacious semi-detached dwellings designed for larger families [...]