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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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 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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You may remember recently we asked for some help with our email subscriptions as we moved to Mailchimp. One willing local helped us set this up, and the more I talked to her the more interesting facts she told me. In particular she runs the local institution of IronCupcake that takes place at the Adelphi …
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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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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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We are posting photographs of the Festival throughout the day on our Facebook Page. If you are not able to get to the festival or you want to relive the day, please feel free to take a look and leave a comment. The first photographs are being added now and as we receive more during …
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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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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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Leeds Inspired (www.leedsinspired.co.uk) will be at Kirkstall Festival with our pop up green screen to film festival goers, stall holders, performers and anyone else who want to be part of ‘Momentous’, a large scale projection that will transform the entire façade of Civic Hall into an animated mechanical clock for 3 nights in early October …
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Come and take part in Kirkstall Abbey’s photography trail (photo trail), discovering how the Abbey looked in 1888 and contribute your own pictures of the Abbey today to their Flickr page. Feel free to use your own imagination to interpret Leeds industrialist Godfrey Bingley’s beautiful photos (see the example opposite and see more on the Flickr …
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