South Leeds Life

  The concept of food grown for the community became a reality in Leeds this week with the winners of a new competition seeing the fruits (and vegetables) of their labours.   The winners of the first design an edible flowerbed competition as part of the new ‘Feed Leeds’ project were on hand outside Civic [...]

  The Friends of New Forest Village are planning a summer event and they need your help. They are planning a Family Fun Day on Sunday 21st July on the playing fields between Waggon Road and St George’s Centre. The organisers promise competitions, stalls, demonstrations and more! The event will run from 2-5pm. Volunteers are [...]

  ASDA, Morley will be the location of the first supermarket collection of food for the South Leeds Foodbank on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013. Will you be there? Beeston Festival ’13 was indeed a hive of activity and I spent a few moments with some of the people that are leading on championing one of [...]

  You may recall my mentioning Invisible Andy… Well, he’s about to appear. Old Bob and I had been trying to arrange an outing for the three of us but something always happened to prevent it happening. Andy had forgotten to put it in his diary and had been required to go shopping. It was [...]

The Hunslet Club has a new timetable for activities specifically for toddlers and pre-school children. Activities include a fun programme of fun, lively sport and dance activities for pre-school children. These being rugby, gymnastics, football & ballet. As a registered charity we keep our costs low at just £1.50 per session whilst the quality is kept high. [...]

  Councillor Kim Groves represents the people of Belle Isle and Middleton, where she lives with her family.  As a Councillor, she works with the following external bodies within South Leeds: Hunslet Hawks RLFC ALMO (Aire Valley Homes) Touchstone Beeston, Cottingley and Middleton Schools Cluster Community Links Middleton Elderly Aid I was honoured to have [...]

The third annual sponsored Fitness Challenge at the Hunslet Club which took place on Saturday 9th of February (highlights of which can be seen in the video above) and the Zumbathon which took place on Saturday 2nd February raised a fantastic total of £3,818 split between the club and St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds. The Hospice was [...]

  The south Leeds life reporters said a warm welcome to Kim Groves (Councillor) to ask some questions on many issues mostly about the local area. There are not enough mental health practitioners in the area.  I’ve had mental health problems and I had to wait six months to see someone at Touchstone. They took [...]

  Last week the Community Reporters group interviewed Councillor Kim Groves, the Labour member for Middleton Park Ward. This was the sixth week of the Community Reports course, the session was about learning how to conduct an interview and to help us get up to speed we watched an interview by the legendary Jeremy Paxman, [...]

  Next Saturday, 1st June, the Trussell Trust is providing training for anyone who wants to volunteer at the Leeds South Food Bank.  It takes place at Middleton Methodist Church, Hopewell View, LS10 3TE and runs from 10.00am to 2.00pm. Attendees should bring a packed lunch with them. There are many roles for which volunteers [...]