The Wardrobe

Located on St Peters Square, just opposite the BBC Leeds studio and near Northern Ballet, is The Wardrobe, a bar and kitchen as well as a popular live music and comedy venue. I decided to visit before going on to my session at Leeds Drawing Club and took my boyfriend with me. We arrived at […]

The Sporting Heritage Awards

Sporting heritage is firmly linked to society’s development and our identity today, whether this is evidenced in artefacts, documents, photos, videos or the spoken word, or a combination of these. On Thursday 28th April 2022, the inaugural Sporting Heritage Awards took place at Leeds City Museum. The awards sought to acknowledge and celebrate the impact […]

Zip It – Reviewed

Sexual harassment and domestic violence can happen to anyone, anywhere and at any time, but women and girls are particularly vulnerable. Individual experiences and the frequent news headlines highlight this on an almost daily basis. Recent estimates indicate that 1.6 million women aged 16 to 74 experienced domestic abuse in the last year. More than […]

Latch completes 100th home in Leeds

Latch (Leeds Action to Create Homes) is a housing charity that converts empty buildings into homes for tenants in urgent need of housing in Leeds. The Leeds-based charity has been working to transform homes and lives since 1990. This week, Latch handed over the keys for their 100th home, an incredible milestone for the charity, […]

De Baga – Bringing Goan food to Headingley

De Baga is located in the heart of Headingley, just a 5 minute walk from Headingley stadium. The intimate restaurant serves Goan food – an eclectic cuisine boasting a fusion of flavours from India and Portugal. On a Tuesday evening in March, before we were due to go to The Original Oak for a new […]