Q.T.A.R.A. (Queenswood Tenants and Residents Association) are holding a community day at The Queenswood Social Club on Saturday the 19th of October from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. They will be starting with a car-boot from 10 – 2 and then a Disco-Karaoke inside the club from 2 -5. Kirkstall Community Garden will also be …
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Car Boot & Disco-Karaoke – Queenswood
October 15th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Our Community - (Comments Off on Car Boot & Disco-Karaoke – Queenswood)KVCA Chairman appears on BBC Radio Leeds
September 20th, 2013 | Posted by in Our Community - (Comments Off on KVCA Chairman appears on BBC Radio Leeds)Simon Dawson, who took over from John Liversedge as chairman of the KVCA in April has appeared as a special guest on BBC Radio Leeds last week. BBC Radio Leeds’ mid morning show features a ‘Place of the Day’ and chose Kirkstall for their destination. He had to provide a couple of interesting facts about …
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Kirkstall Abbey shortlisted for award
September 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Abbey shortlisted for award)
Kirkstall Abbey has been shortlisted in the ‘Britain’s favourite heritage site’ category in the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2013. The 10 nominees in the favourite heritage site category were selected by Countryfile presenter John Craven, who said: “My first heritage site – I was brought up a couple of miles away and often went here as a child. One of Yorkshire’s …
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Cardigan Fields Club – Request for Interviews
September 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Local Issues | Our Community - (1 Comments)
Dear Readers, My recent post about the new Control club opening in the Cardigan Fields complex has caused quite a stir! See comments: https://kirkstall.org.uk/2097 I admit, I am fairly new to the area and do not know everything that has happened in the past. Unfortunately, as a volunteer group our resources are somewhat limited and if …
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Classical Fantasia 7th September
August 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Classical Fantasia 7th September)
As requested by many enquirers, we now have details we can publish for this year’s Classical Fantasia, performed in the backdrop of the illuminated Kirkstall Abbey, with a firework finale. This year the music will be performed by the Manchester Camerata – one of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras. Book your tickets here or phone 0113 224 …
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Hollybush gains Green Flag Award
August 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Our Community - (Comments Off on Hollybush gains Green Flag Award)
Hollybush Conservation Centre has one of the best green spaces in the country Keep Britain Tidy announces a record-breaking number of award-winning parks and green spaces for 2013. Hollybush Conservation Centre has one of the very best green spaces in the UK – and that’s official. The green space is among a record-breaking 1,447 parks …
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Jessica’s daring deed in memory of friend
August 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Charity - (Comments Off on Jessica’s daring deed in memory of friend)
Local Kirkstall resident Jessica Bailey (pictured) is taking on the daring feat of a sponsored zip-wire slide from the top of Headingley Stadium on the 12th of October in memory of her friend who passed away in June. Jessica comments on her pledge: “I’m jumping down a zip wire at Headingley Carnegie Stadium for the Stroke Association …
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Local Bakery the Icing on the Cake at Kirkstall Festival
August 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Local Bakery the Icing on the Cake at Kirkstall Festival)
Local bakery Exquisite Handmade Cakes recently attended the Kirkstall Festival, our community’s annual event held in the picturesque grounds of the outstandingly beautiful Kirkstall Abbey. Emma Stocks says: “The festival attracts thousands of visitors, from local residents, businesses, families and those coming from afar looking for an exciting weekend. This year the attractions included a …
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SCRAP at Kirkstall Festival
July 29th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Festival | Schools/Kids - (Comments Off on SCRAP at Kirkstall Festival)If you didn’t manage to see the brilliant SCRAP at the Kirkstall Festival a couple of week’s ago you missed out on our local children (and parents) getting creative building colourful art projects out of, well for want of a better word – rubbish. SCRAP are a social enterprise based in Leeds, focused on helping …
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New superclub to open in Kirkstall!
July 29th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Our Community - (7 Comments)
All you hedonistic revellers will be excited to learn that there is a new superclub opening in Kirkstall! Don’t worry if your not a fan of a late night rave, it will be located in the Cardigan Fields complex. Here’s a bit more about it: Control, to be opened in September is a new project …
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Hope & Social at Kirkstall Festival!
July 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Hope & Social at Kirkstall Festival!)
As promised in the most recent edition of Kirkstall Matters, here is an interview with a long time favorite of Kirkstall Festival goers, Hope and Social! Here’s a little bit of info about them if this is the first time you have come across them: We’re a band who do things a little bit differently. …
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Creative Work Initiative – Creative & Social Media Skills for Kirkstall
July 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Our Community - (Comments Off on Creative Work Initiative – Creative & Social Media Skills for Kirkstall)
Calling all those interested in volunteering whilst also learning some creative and social marketing skills! We have come across this local initiative which many of you may be interested in called The Creative Work Initiative (C.W.I.). It is a volunteer network that was set up to develop the creative and social media skills of the people of …
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