South Leeds Life

  We are now half way through our current Community Reporters course. Over the last five weeks our students have learned what “hyperlocal blogging” means; they’ve learned to take better photographs to illustrate their posts with trips to Middleton Park and Leeds City Museum. Last week we looked at structuring a news story. This week [...]

A summer of community fetes, festivals, fairs and galas across South Leeds  kicks off this week in Cottingley. Cottingley Summer Fair takes place on Saturday 18th May at Cottingley Primary Academy. The event, which runs from 11:00am to 3:00pm, is being organised by local residents and workers from community organisations. It is funded by MICE [...]

Here at SLCR we’ve been working hard to produce a series of programmes looking at Health and Wellbeing. The first of these sees Dr Caroline Evans from the University of Sheffield looking at ways of reducing the risk of colon cancer through diet. This is followed by a programme looking at the relative merits of [...]

South Leeds Life is written by a group of people who live and work in South Leeds. We meet as a group every month to discuss how to develop the blog. Under discussion this month will be: Advertising on South Leeds Life Which news stories we should be covering Marketing the blog Community Reporter training [...]

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Let’s start this week with the excellent Facebook page, Amber’s Autism Awareness, which is two shy of 100 “Likes”: “Autism parent fact – you have moments of extreme guilt. Are you giving your other children enough of your [...]

South Leeds Community Radio (SLCR) are working with the Organ Donation Service to recruit Asian and African Caribbean people to the organ donor register. Organ transplants save lives, but it can be a very difficult decision for the families of people who have died at the time of great distress. Making the decision now to [...]

South Leeds Community Radio have been in touch with details of a course they are running to help local people find a job: Are you aged 19 + and currently out of work and living in the South Leeds area? Well if this is you, and you want to gain new skills, and a new [...]

Nicola Greaves from South Leeds Community Radio has been in touch with this story: Are you sitting comfortably?…. Then I will begin. Starting on the 6th March at 6.30pm – 7.30pm, South Leeds Community Radio will be hosting ‘The Book Club’. Anyone who is interested in meeting new people, in a relaxed and informal setting, [...]

Our trainee Community Reporters spent an interesting couple of hours at South Leeds Community Radio today. Jaz Long, the Station Manager, took us through how to correctly use their “Ediroll” portable recording equipment. This allows someone to record high quality audio – an interview, or a piece of live music – that can then be [...]

The South Leeds Life Group met yesterday at the end of a second successful year. We are rather pleased with ourselves here at South Leeds Towers. 2012 saw a completely revamped website with extra features such as What’s On events guide. We launched the Community Reporters website, so that anyone can write a story for [...]