Leeds’ Sound Leisure is Yorkshire Exporter of The Year
The Leeds-based jukebox manufacturing company is having a bumper year, with a Royal visit to celebrate 40 years as a family business and now Yorkshire Post’s Excellence in Business Award. Headingley’s Emerald Stadium was the venue for the awards on 6 November, chaired by Channel 4’s Cathy Newman and attended by over 400 people. Yorkshire […]
a little space – Gecko and Mind The Gap on 21 November
The first co-production between Gecko and Mind The Gap will be performed at Halifax Square Chapel this month. a little space will preview this year ahead of its tour in 2020 and draws on the performers’ own life experiences and how people are affected when they connect and disconnect, whether voluntarily or because they are isolated. […]
Kirkstall Valley Grants Awards Evening 24 October
This was the second awards evening to celebrate small scale community projects and what they can achieve. The grants programme is sponsored by Power to Change, and is a collaboration between Open Source Arts and Kirkstall Valley Grants. The grants are awarded to help projects which improve the environment as well as the wellbeing of […]
Opera North’s First Dementia Friendly Performance
On 24 October, those living with dementia will have the chance, along with their families and carers, to enjoy an afternoon at the opera, as Opera North is to have a dementia-friendly matinee performance at Leeds Grand Theatre. Music can increase wellbeing, even encouraging a response when verbal skills have been lost. It’s been proven that music […]
Tabitha Wood – A Teenage Inspiration
When she was just 13 years old, Tabitha Wood – Tabby – was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer. Now 15 years old and in remission, she has so far raised over £22,000 for Leeds General Infirmary’s teenage cancer ward and Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony, a charity which grants equine wishes for people who […]
