Baby Band Music Festival: at Lotherton Hall on 21 July

The Baby Band Music Festival returns to the historic Lotherton Hall, Leeds for the second year running on Sunday 21 July, featuring an eclectic mix of live bands that will have everyone from toddlers to grandparents tapping their feet.  The Festival will be the biggest single day event ever staged at Lotherton Hall, attracting up to 3,000 visitors, […]

Multi-award-winning Yorkshire businesswoman set to launch second business

The founder of successful nine-year-old PR agency, MacComms has announced details of the upcoming launch of her second business, HelloHope. Ellie MacDonald from Leeds has trained as a mental health and suicide prevention instructor trainer and is launching her Community Interest Company, HelloHope at a special event on 23rd May. Having battled mental health issues and […]

Candlelighters Children’s Cancer Charity Has a New Trustee

Candlelighters has appointed cancer survivor Rohan Randhawa as Trustee. Almost twenty years ago when he was only eight years old,, Rohan Randhawa was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Now, as a Trustee, he’s supporting Candlelighters, the charity that helped him during his treatment. As a young boy, Rohan’s older brother noticed his hands and feet […]

Grief Kind Space: For Local People Who are Grieving – Opens on 23 April

Local Rugby League and Leeds Rhino legend, Jamie Peacock, is throwing his weight behind a charity initiative supporting people who are grieving in the City. As part of a drive to give bereaved people the chance to talk about their grief, the Leeds Rhinos Foundation is teaming up with national palliative and bereavement charity, Sue […]

Men’s Meets at Maggie’s: Supporting Men Living With Cancer

Last month, ex Rugby League star Stevie Ward launched Men’s Meets at Maggie’s. The centre is holding monthly meet-ups for men with their own diagnosis or that of someone close to them. At the charity’s base in the grounds of St James Hospital, Leeds, Stevie spoke about his brain injury, giving up playing rugby and […]