Smart Works’ Programme for International Women’s Day 2026

Smart Works Leeds<https://leeds.smartworks.org.uk/>, a charity helping women to access employment in the region, has announced its biggest-ever programme of events for International Women’s Day 2026. The Leeds-based charity will host a series of inspiring events across Yorkshire during the month of March, with Leeds first direct bank arena as headline sponsor. The campaign will bring […]

Leeds Ultimate Thunder: The Fight to Finish Their Story

The learning disabled band, hailed as ‘the most punk rock band in Britain’, is fighting to ensure their story is not left unfinished. Ultimate Thunder, a Leeds-based group of musicians with learning disabilities and autism, are the subject of an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary that risks never being completed unless new funding can be found. After […]

White Rose Hosts Record-breaking Skating Event

High fives and Skate to Donate at White Rose with Leeds Knights on 3 December White Rose Shopping Centre hosted a charitable ice skating event on Wednesday 3rd December, inviting ice hockey fans to take to the rink with members of Leeds Knights in return for a small charity donation to benefit local charity Kidz Klub. […]

Sue Ryder Celebrate a Life Leeds

More than 150 people from across the City gathered at Sue Ryder’s winter remembrance event this month.  The annual event is held to honour the lives of those who meant so much and to reflect as a community on special memories shared. Sue Ryder Celebrate a Life Leeds, hosted by the palliative care and bereavement support charity, which runs Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in Headingley, was held at Leeds City Museum on 7 December.  The afternoon featured a mix of uplifting music from Jasmine […]

Peepal Tree Press Celebrates 40 Years

Leeds-based independent Peepal Tree Press will celebrate 40 years as the world’s leading publisher of Caribbean and Black British literature with an evening of readings at the University of Leeds on Thursday 13 November. Still based in the same redbrick house in the Leeds suburb of Burley, the Press’s many successes have included Costa Novel […]