Help Candlelighters Support Poorly Children at Christmas – buy a £1 raffle ticket by midnight 16 December!
Evie Armstrong’s family are hoping for a better Christmas than last year. In August 2020, the six year old was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia at the end of August 2020. Ever since then, most of her time has been spent in hospital, receiving rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Leeds Children’s Hospital, […]
The Buy Nowt LS6 – Library of Things
Jed Aitchison, Project Manager at the Library of Things, asks why, in an increasingly expensive, carbon conscious and cramped world, anyone should have to buy something if they can borrow it instead. Well the answer is you don’t have to. The Buy Nowt LS6 – Library of Things is the solution to this problem. It’s […]
Yeadon Town Hall’s Tree of Lights Concert Celebrates Those You Love
The Town Hall Users Group welcomes everyone to the annual Tree of Lights carol event at 7 p.m on Monday 6 December, for what promises to be a moving and uplifting gathering. As well as supporting the Town Hall’s restoration, the Group – comprised of local clubs, societies and other organisations who use Yeadon Town […]
Leeds Children are Running Miles for The Homeless
Thousands of children from 10 schools in Leeds are going to run the distance equivalent to Leeds to the North Pole to support the City’s charity for the homeless, Simon on The Streets. This is a fundraising event inspired by Christmas, when from 6 December, nearly 3,000 primary school children will take part in ‘Elf […]
Leeds Volunteers Launch a New Way of Giving
On 1 December, a group of volunteers based in Leeds launched ‘Givto’ a new online charity donation service. It’s the first of its kind in the world and allows people to give to a different charity each month with one simple direct debit. Givto was piloted with a small number of people, and national and […]
