South Leeds Life

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 [...]

  Ralph Walker from Skelton Grange Environment Centre has been in touch: When the volunteers and staff turned up at Skelton Grange yesterday it was the beginning of another lovely day at the centre. The sun was shining and the natural colours across the site seemed to be developing with each passing hour to the [...]

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 [...]

Those good people at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have been in touch to tell us about volunteering opportunities at Stourton: Do you care about the world around you and want to do something to make a difference? Do you want to share your passion for the environment with the next generation? Do you want to [...]

Staff and volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have given 20,000 people from across Leeds and Yorkshire Access to Nature since April 2010. Skelton Grange Environment Centre in South Leeds is celebrating the fact that it has received well over 20,000 visitors to the centre since 2010 as part of the Big Lottery’s Changing Spaces [...]

  The Hunslet Club, The FA and Mars, The FA’s Adult Football Partner, have made it as easy as a ‘one-two’ to turn up and start playing the football that best suits you: whether it’s a good old-fashioned kickabout or the more competitive game, like 5 or 11 a side on our outdoor 3G training [...]

Rick Hazelwood from the Hunslet Old Boys Rugby Team and Trevor Brennan from the Hunslet Club Football Team took part in the 50th World Coal Carrying Championships on Easter Monday. This, most Yorkshire of world competitions, took place in Gawthorpe. These lads had to run with a sack of coal, approximately one mile, (1108. 25 [...]

Today’s picture is taken from the roadside on the A639 in Stourton just before junction 44 on the M1. Look at the year construction is expected and then think about today’s date. Before this sign was put up there was one saying construction was expected in 2011 and that was visible well into 2012. How [...]

Following the success of last years competition, its back! Come down and vote for who you think deserves the Glitterball at The Hunslet Club Strictly Come Dancing Themed Competition Night! Last years’ competitors were fantastic, see above for video of last years’ winner, this years’competitors have been practicing hard for months and this promises to once again [...]

Toby from the Skelton Grange Environment Centre has been in touch with a request for help surveying amphibians …. Winter has been clinging on with the current icy blast, but it can’t put off the arrival of Spring forever. This is the time of year for lots of frog activity in the ponds. So – [...]