What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council is appealing for volunteers to help run this year’s Healthy Holidays programme. The Healthy Holidays programme has been running since 2018 and provides children living in poverty with nutritious food, fun and engaging activities, and the chance to make friends and develop new skills during the school
A memory garden is being created at the front of Beeston Village Community Centre for people to commemorate, celebrate and remember anyone they’ve lost. The garden will give people the opportunity to remember somebody special and plant a rose, a herb, a shrub, or a flower, in their memory. A
Hunslet and Riverside Councillors have confirmed how the first £19,000 of a dedicated £30,500 budget is to be spent on amenity improvements to the shopping district between Dewsbury Road Community Hub and Library and Hunslet Fire Station from a fund, known as the Town and District Two, will be spent.
Leeds artists’ studio Lord Whitney are opening up their studio to young people with a new creative course that aims to inspire confidence, and champion that there is no ‘standard’ route into the creative industries. [Designers of the Future] is a new free 5-week creative course that aims to support
Bear in Space! A company called ‘Sent Into Space’ came into school to run a unique project with a group of 30 Year 9 students. They looked at the science of launching an item into space using a giant weather balloon. Cockburn sent their intrepid astronaut George Cockburn (named after
We are sad to report that Dave Murrell, 70, of Beeston, passed away at Wheatfields Hospice on Wednesday 16 June, after a year-long battle with cancer. Dave was born in Hull on 22 September 1950, but moved to Leeds with his family as a child, and spent the rest of
A local South Leeds resident has been picked to star in PureGym’s latest ‘Member Stories’ campaign. Becky Partridge, a member of PureGym Leeds Hunslet, will feature on PureGym’s social channels and website over the coming weeks as part of the campaign. When Becky first stepped into the gym she was nervous
Coventry Bears 46-44 Hunslet RLFC Hunslet suffered a major blow to their season and an abrupt end to their four match unbeaten run at Butts Park Arena yesterday (4 July 2021) as Coventry Bears scored 24 unanswered points in the last ten minutes to steal an unlikely victory much to
Our street in Beeston Hill has become a place of play and fun by turning it into an occasional Play Street. How often is it possible for a bunch of children to safely roll down the middle of their own street in a cardboard fridge box donated by a neighbour
When the easing of Covid-19 restrictions began in May, friends could finally arrange to meet up again, as socialising inside restaurants and bars returned. Sports fans eager to attend large events got the green light, and long-awaited hugs were blissfully exchanged. Much of the nation breathed a collective sigh of