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Dear Readers,

Already we’re easing into October and Summer seems so far away. Everyone seems to have been reinvigorated by the unexpected sunshine because there is loads going on!

We have athletes winning double golds, writers publishing, playwrights launching world premiers, Leeds lighting up the night and much more.

Alice Nutter (ex Chumbawamba) presents her new play ‘My Generation’ at West Yorkshire Playhouse and we had a little chat with her about it; we spoke to Nigel Gray at Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group about what they are up to and their ‘Call to Action’; and Barney Bardsley dropped in to tell us about her latest book ‘Old Dog’.

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Get ready for ‘My Generation’!

Alice Nutter’s new play captures 40 years of alternative culture and political history in Leeds.

Plus, Clock Rock and Two Empty Barrels, a fundraiser for Oakwood Clock, was a fantastic success; two members of Leeds Photographic Society recently gained distinctions with the Royal Photographic Society; Councillor Dan Cohen is concerned about healthcare arrangements in Alwoodley; and Councillor Bill Urry addresses leasehold problems.

And, there’s lots more! Now it’s on to November! The deadline for editorial is 1st October at the latest, and for advertising it’s 9th October.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards Carole, Jack and the team

In This Issue

10 Turning Around Those Empty Homes

Leeds has around 7,000 empty homes – Empty Homes Doctor aims to bring many of these back into use.

14 Leeds Lieder Festival 2013 The festival showcases an inspiring line up of young international and British artists.

26 Clock Rock and Two Empty Barrels Rocks the Oakwood Clock!

A Call to Action!

Leeds Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) want everyone to have a say in the development of our local health service.

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A free community event to raise money for the Oakwood Clock restoration fund is a great success.

37 Hayley Gaftarnick: Circles

Hayley launches new album at The Brudenell

47 Double World Championship Gold for Claire O’Hara

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Skelton Grange Environment Centre and wildlife area is flinging open its doors to visitors for its open day on Saturday, 5th October, as part of The Conservation Volunteers’ Big Green Weekend. Staff and volunteers from Skelton Grange and Hollybush Conservation Centre will be combining their efforts to make this year’s open day one to remember!

Usually reserved for schools, play-schemes and community groups or those wishing to book onto one of it’s many courses, the Skelton Grange Open Day is offering all children and their families from across Leeds an opportunity to get close to nature through a huge range of activities.

Learn bushcraft skills and traditional green woodworking or create your own bicycle-powered smoothie, try out face-painting, felt-making, storytelling, circus skills and take a Walk on the Wild Side nature trail. They’ll even be constructing a model village, which you can help create! Then put your feet up in the café and enjoy some homemade sweet and savoury snacks, have a pint of locally brewed beer or treat yourself to a freshly baked pizza from the mouth of the dragon fired cob oven!

Skelton Grange Environment Centre opened 21 years ago, and is managed by the charity The Conservation Volunteers. The Open Day is part of a wider schedule of events happening across Europe as part of The Conservation Volunteers Big Green Weekend. They believe passionately that looking after green places isn’t just about caring for nature; it’s about caring for people as well. The Conservation Volunteers have given so much

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The day will run from 11am – 4pm. Full details, including directions, can be found at www.tcv.org. uk/skeltongrange or www.leedsinspired.co.uk.

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JAMES KITSON, 1807 – 1885

Pioneering Engineer and Industrialist – A Model of Self-Help Kitson is one of the great names in Leeds’ proud industrial history. For over a century locomotives bearing the Kitson name were exported across the world: to Australia, India, South America, powering the new railways which fed growth and development.

The man at the heart of this enterprise was James Kitson. From his birth in a Leeds tavern, he was to become a pioneering locomotive engineer, founder of a hugely successful business, and head of a family with distinguished achievements in industry, the arts, and politics.

He was born in 1807 in the Brunswick Tavern, Camp Road (behind the new Leeds Arena), the eldest of six children. In his youth he helped in the tavern, slept under the bar, and acquired some education in local schools. At 14 he was apprenticed to a local dyeworks. But two years later his father died from drink, and he had to help his mother sort out his tangled affairs, run the business, and look after the five younger children.

In spite of this, and a bad injury at the dyeworks, he was energetic, jaunty, and determined to improve himself. He had a mechanical bent, and was fascinated by the debates over the new, emerging railway technology – what were the benefits compared with canals, and the potential risks (would people be suffocated in tunnels or injured by unimaginable speeds above 20 miles an hour)? He joined the newly-formed Leeds Mechanics’ Institute, took classes in chemistry, mathematics and mechanics, and read up on railway and locomotive design. The world was on the brink of a transport revolution and he was determined to be part of it.

Meanwhile he ran the inn and, just before his 21st birthday, married Ann Newton, daughter of a local tradesman.

They had eleven children in all, but only six survived the prevalent infant diseases. In 1835 James decided to pursue his ambitions. They moved to Hunslet, where new locomotive works were being established to feed the railway boom and acquired two partners, with expertise and money. As Todd, Kitson & Laird they set up in a cloth mill, won some orders, and began work. The great Robert Stephenson came to see what they were up to. In 1838 their first locomotive, ‘The Lion’, rolled out through a hole knocked in the mill wall. (The ‘Lion’ still survives in the Museum of Liverpool after years

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on display in Lime Street Station and featuring in films, memorably as ‘the Titfield Thunderbolt’.)

More orders followed as railway mania swept the country. In 1839 James, first with David Laird and later with other partners, established the Airedale Foundry off Hunslet Road, and began large-scale manufacture of locomotives. In 1854 he bought the nearby Monkbridge Ironworks, to ensure an adequate supply of quality iron, and put his two elder sons in charge. Distant now from his early trade union links, he was a tough employer, ready to break a strike among his workers. His business expanded and prospered, and James prospered with it.

He was active and popular in public life: Chairman of the first Leeds Musical Festival in 1857, a JP, Alderman, Mayor in 1860 and 61, President of the Mechanics Institute which had helped to set him on the road to success. He had a stake in banking and railways, and belonged to all the elite Leeds societies.

His family homes mirrored his rise in wealth and status: from Hunslet Lane to Blenheim Terrace, Blenheim Square, Hyde House in Clarendon Road. Finally in 1868, after his wife’s death, he bought Elmete Hall in Roundhay, set in 65 acres with spectacular views. The old Hall was demolished and a huge Italianate

In his youth he helped in the tavern and slept under the bar

mansion built, fitted out regardless of cost (still there, converted into offices).

Here he brought his second wife Elizabeth, 26 years his junior, to live in luxury, with a butler, cook, footmen, maids, and nurses for the four children who followed. When the creation of Roundhay Park was proposed adjoining his land he objected to invasion by the hoi-polloi! It was there at Elmete, far from his old tavern, that he died in 1885, aged 78.

His son James Kitson II, a distinguished engineer and Liberal MP, later Lord Airedale, took over the massive enterprise of Kitson & Co and led it to further success before it faltered and closed in the 1930s. Other children and grandchildren achieved artistic and academic distinction.

The great engines built in the Kitson works took his name around the globe, and with it the reputation of Leeds as a major industrial powerhouse – a distant echo now.

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David Richmond, Chairman at Arrow Cars, says the company is investing £3m in the executive service over the next three years.

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TURNING AROUND THOSE EMPTY HOMES Leeds, like most UK cities, has an empty homes issue. Around 7,000 homes have been empty for six months or more, and around 90% of these are privately owned. Meanwhile, more than 20,000 people are on waiting lists for social housing, and thousands more struggle to find a decent affordable home to rent or buy.

Faced with those statistics, you’re probably asking similar questions to those we asked when we first decided to get involved. Why are they empty? What’s stopping them being brought back into use?

There are all sorts of reasons for homes being vacant.

Some are empty due to family circumstances – perhaps an inherited home where the family can’t decide what to do – or, understandably, aren’t ready emotionally to deal with the home that they grew up in.

Other empty property owners have stories of difficult tenants

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who’ve trashed the home and then left in a hurry – whilst others have had problems between tenancies with items of value – in particular boilers and copper piping – stolen during periods when their property was vacant.

Perhaps the only common thread is that people often don’t know what to do next. That’s where our Empty Homes Doctor comes in. We work closely with the Council, (which has backed Leeds Empties with a £100,000 investment) – and they write to owners on our behalf, outlining our offer to help them work out what to do.

We listen to what they want to see happen – in most cases people want to rent out the home – although some want to sell. We then explore what’s stopping them from bringing the home back into use.

Then we talk them through possible ways forward. These might include helping them to find trusted traders to do work on the house, finding a decent letting agent with a strong presence in their area, or helping them to access finance to renovate their property – such as the recently launched National Empty Homes Loan Fund.

More than anything, our Empty Homes Doctor aims to

People often don’t know what to do next.

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break down what can appear to be an insurmountable problem into manageable steps. Sometimes our intervention is quick – and the solution is simple. In other cases we get far more involved.

It’s early days, but we’re already seeing results – and wide ranging benefits. More housing coming onto the market to rent or buy, more eyesore properties done up, more business for local traders and a contribution to meeting local housing need.

Sorting out empty homes in Leeds won’t solve our chronic housing shortage on its own – but it certainly won’t do any harm.

Rob Greenland is co-director of Social

Business Brokers CIC, the Leeds-based social enterprise which developed Leeds Empties. For more information, or to arrange to see the Empty Homes Doctor, visit www.leedsempties.org.uk, email home@leedsempties.org.uk or ring 0113 200 9383.

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SAVE THE GRAND CLOCK! The Handpicked Hall independent ret ailers recently got together to launch the ‘Save the Grand Clock’ Campaign.

large scale projection is to transform the entire façade of Leeds Civic Hall into a vast, animated mechanical clock.

Commissioned by Leeds Inspired, ‘Momentous’ builds on the rich history of renowned Leeds clockmaker William Potts and will take place from 3rd – 5th October, forming a centrepiece of the city’s Light Night celebrations on 4th October.

‘Momentous’ takes its inspiration from Potts clocks, some of which feature clockwork people. They were designed to capture the attention of the public and create a shared moment when they chimed on the hour and each quarter hour.

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The Civic Hall projection will be created by Illuminos artists Matt and Rob Vale. They will create a huge version of these automaton clocks, bringing the building to life. They will use video footage and photographs of Leeds people going about their daily lives to transform the clock face every 15 minutes.

‘Momentous’ will animate the Civic Hall. The architecture, windows and columns will form elements of the clock, with cogs, levers and pulleys whirring and rising. In front of the building there will be a large-scale winding mechanism and the public will be invited to turn the handle and see the weights and balances on the building respond.

‘Momentous’ takes its inspiration from Potts clocks, some of which feature clockwork people

The campaign aims to bring the building’s famous animated clock, located over the Vicar Lane entrance, back to life by raising the £25,000 needed to restore its mechanism and, once again, as the clock strikes the hour, the famous figures will emerge on their revolving stage – the guardsman salutes, the Scotsman bows, there is an Irishman with a Shillelagh, a Canadian and an Indian. As the figures rotate back into the clock a cockerel crows and flaps its wings above the dial.

The clock was designed and made by the firm of William Potts and Sons, which was established in Leeds in the 19th Century. William Potts was originally from Durham but settled in Leeds in 1833, first in Pudsey, then Bankfield Terrace, Burley. Many of the clocks in the city are Potts clocks and are still repaired and maintained by the firm.

Our Handmade Collective and Handpicked Hall retailers will be holding fundraising events through to New Year’s Eve in an attempt to raise the money needed to restore the clock and there will be various donations points within Handpicked Hall.

For further information, via following the cause on Twitter @savegrandclock.

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The fifth biennial Leeds Lieder Festival ‘The Composer’s Echo’ runs from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th October and celebrates the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, and the 50th anniversary of the death of Francis Poulenc.

Leeds Lieder is proud to welcome the distinguished pianist, Graham Johnson, one of today’s finest song accompanists, as this year’s artistic director. The festival showcases an inspiring line up of young international and British artists, including Canadian soprano Martha Guth; Bavarian soprano Christiane Karg; French baritone Stéphane Degout; South African baritone Njabulo Madlala and pianist James Baillieu.

Mezzo soprano Anna Huntley; baritone Marcus Farnsworth; soprano Bibi Heal; tenors Joshua Ellicott and Benjamin Hulett all fly the British flag.

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Earlier this year, Graham Johnson received the prestigious Wigmore Medal in recognition of his outstanding work for the song repertoire throughout many decades and to mark the publication of his monumental three-volume encyclopedia ‘Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs’. “Rather than focus exclusively on the music of Benjamin Britten, we have chosen to celebrate his radiance as composer, accompanist, conductor and festival director - hence the title for the weekend: ‘The Composer’s Echo’”, said Graham Johnson. “Britten and Poulenc referred to themselves as ‘Les frères

d’outre Manche’ – brothers across the Channel, and the Festival’s recitals reflect this relationship by featuring songs by Britten’s teachers, pupils and friends, including Poulenc, and other composers with whom he was particularly associated, like Schubert and Schumann.”

Guest of Honour, international mezzo soprano Ann Murray DBE, renowned for her interpretative and vocal skills as a recitalist and opera singer will also work in a public Master class with student singer/ pianist duos nominated by the UK conservatoires, and will share her insights into the world of art song at an ‘In Conversation’.

For full details, visit www. leedsleider.org.uk You’ll also find more information on the North Leeds Life website www.northleedslife.co.uk.

“We are absolutely delighted to welcome Graham Johnson as artistic director for the fifth Leeds Lieder Festival”, said Jane Anthony, founder and Festival Director.

“A passionate advocate of artsong, Graham has worked with all the greatest singers.

We are thrilled with the superb roster of international singers he has assembled, and that Leeds audiences would otherwise not have the chance to hear outside London. As a friend of Benjamin Britten, Graham brings a very special understanding and insight to our festival theme.”

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Amara Stars as Maria in Manchester Amara Okereke (16) of Adel, a student at The Grammar School at Leeds, was selected from over 1000 young people auditioned by the National Youth Music Theatre to play the role of Maria in a new production of West Side Story.

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This site-specific production was performed in a large warehouse in Manchester at the end of August. The director, Nikolai Foster, recently directed ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Best Kept Secret’ and the 20th anniversary production of ‘Beautiful Thing’ both at West Yorkshire Playhouse.

For the first time West Side Story was presented with all new choreography by Drew McOnie, considered one of the new stars of choreography and dance in the UK. The musical director was Tom Deering, who is also musical director of the phenomenal ‘The Color Purple’ currently at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

Yorkshire was well represented, with Dominic Harrison from Wakefield and Megan Gilbert (also a student at GSAL) from Barwick-in-Elmet, playing the roles of Riff and Rosalia.

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ST PETER’S SINGERS RETURN TO MALLORCA

The play is riotously funny and we have had a great reaction from audiences.

It’s a wonderful satire about modern life and what’s wrong with it

The National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s new play ‘People’ comes to Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th November, starring the fabulous Siân Phillips, Brigit Forsyth, Michael Thomas, and Selina Cadell.

It’s hard to believe that this is the first time that Sian Phillips has worked with Alan Bennett.

“I love his work”, she told us.

“But this is my first opportunity to actually work with him. The play is riotously funny and we have had a great reaction from audiences. It’s a wonderful satire about modern life and what’s wrong with it.”

Sian plays the central character, Dorothy, living in a huge stately home, which is looking a little the worst for wear.

Her Archdeacon sister, played by Brigit Forsyth, wants her to hand it over to The National Trust to run, but Dorothy has more creative ideas. The thought of people traipsing through her house is the last thing she wants. People spoil things and there are so many of them. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table,

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what is she to do?

‘People’ reunites Alan Bennett with director Nicholas Hytner, following their collaborations on The History Boys and The Habit of Art. It is his sixth play for the National Theatre.

The other cast members are Alan Booty, Robin Bowerman, Simon Bubb, Danny Burns, Ellie Burrow, Clare Clifford, Andrew Coppin, Endy McKay, Adrian McLoughlin, Paul Moriarty, Anneli Page, Ieuan Rhys, Michael Thomas Tamara Ustinov and Alexander Warner.

Tickets are available from www.leedsgrandtheatre.com or 0844 848 2700

The Leeds-based chamber choir, St Peter’s Singers, makes a return visit to Mallorca in October. Directed by Dr Simon Lindley (Music Director since the choir’s foundation in 1977), this will be the choir’s fourth overseas tour.

Each recital will comprise a variety of sacred choral music from British and Continental traditions spanning over 500 years, including work

by Benjamin Britten and composers with particular associations with Leeds Minster. The choir will be accompanied by organist David Houlder, who will also perform organ solos.

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The West Yorkshire Playhouse is presenting the World Premiere of Alice Nutter’s new play, My Generation, starting Saturday 5th October.

The play started life as a twohour radio play for BBC3, but when James Brining, the Playhouse’s new artistic director, heard it he immediately wanted to stage it. It fit in perfectly with his plan to tell Leeds’ stories and engage the community.

Following her musical career, Alice, who was a founder member of the band Chumbawamba, attended one of the Playhouse’s courses for new writers ‘So You Want to be a Writer?’ and discovered she really could write.

The theatre staged her first play ‘Foxes’ in 2006. My Generation is her third play and she has gone on to write regularly for television.

We caught up with her recently during rehearsals at The Playhouse and discovered that it was the Occupy movement that really got her thinking about creating this play and looking at the various events over the years that had brought us to this point.

The play covers from the 1970s to today, revolving around a family and how they manage as various momentous events happen around them – the Miners’ Strike, the Yorkshire Ripper, the drugfuelled hedonism of the 90s, and the instability created by today’s financial crisis. It follows the heartbreak, fights and fun of a Leeds family that is trying to live differently, capturing 40 years of alternative culture and political history in Leeds.

“This is a complex play and doesn’t give any definite answers”, said Alice. “Politics are all around us but we just do our best to get on

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with our lives. Capitalism doesn’t work but there are only flawed alternatives. The play presents moments in people’s lives that reflect that decade, fragments of experience that tell the story and I have tried to tell it with spirit and humour.”

Alice told us that adapting the play for the stage was like ‘wrestling with a black bear’!

“I had to forget what I’d learnt about writing for TV. It was a real challenge. But I feel now that this is an epic play and I’m so happy with it. The Playhouse has offered me great resources, Max Webster is a wonderful director. Harry Hamer (also previously with Chumbawamba) is responsible for the music – and what a soundtrack! And I have a great cast.”

The cast includes Craig Gazey (Coronation Street/

Pictured The cast in rehersal

Adapting the play for the stage

The Full Monty), Kaye Wragg (Call The Midwife/No Angels), Sheena Bhattessa (EastEnders) and Robert Wilfort (Gavin And Stacey).

My Generation is at West Yorkshire Playhouse from 5th – 26th October at 7.45pm. Tickets available from 0113 213 7700 or www.wyp.org.uk

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RAISING THE ROOF FOR CHARITY! A newly formed choir of men from across Leeds is set to take Leeds Town Hall by storm on Sunday 13th October in a stunning gala performance in aid of Help for Heroes.

Sing For Heroes! was launched by Leeds Male Voice Choir with the aim of taking a group of men with varying ranges of musical experience and turning them into a choir in 12 weeks. Award-winning choral conductor Will Prideaux appealed for volunteers. He didn’t mind if they had sung in choirs all their lives or just in the stands at Headingley stadium.

All he wanted was enthusiasm and guys who were prepared to put in the work and raise money for a great cause.

Will has considerable experience of helping men find their voices and bringing people

It’s shown a whole cross-section of men the buzz that people get from performing

together as a community. He has been particularly impressed with the hard work and dedication this choir has shown. “They have really stepped up to the plate”, he said.

“We have had over 60 men ranging in age from 19 - 82 get involved, with some travelling from as far afield as York, Harrogate, Bingley and Wetherby.

“There were a lot of guys who’d never sung at all so it was all about helping them find their voices and learning to sing together as

a group. Week after week, the standard has been terrific. New friendships have been made and it has been great to see how the guys have supported one another.

It’s shown a whole cross-section of men the buzz that people get from performing and from working together for a cause.”

Sing for Heroes will feature members of Peterborough and Leeds Male Voice Choirs, with over 200 men performing. “We are going to raise the roof! There will be something for everyone with a mix of chart hits, songs from musicals, operatic choruses and even some pieces with a special Yorkshire flavour.”

Tickets for the concert are available from www.tickets.com or Leeds City Council Box Office on 0113 224 3801.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Writer Barney Bardsley dropped into our office recently with news of her latest book. ‘Old Dog’ is guaranteed to captivate everyone who has ever had a treasured family pet.

I soon learnt that this was the story of far more than a dog. It’s the story of the nasty surprises life can throw at you, how you cope with them and the difference a devoted pet can make.

Muffin, a rescue dog, joined the Bardsley family in 1999.

She was three years old, a ‘little shipwreck’ of a dog who had been badly neglected, undernourished and kept in a high-rise flat all her life. Barney’s family was also under pressure, her husband Tim had terminal cancer, her daughter Molly was only seven.

Tim bonded instantly with chaotic little Muffin, who became his steadfast companion. And during the dark days after Tim’s death, and when Molly left for university, Muffin became a loyal friend with an uncanny ability to display empathy around times of illness and loss.

She seemed to see it as her ‘job’ to look after this family of hers. When Barney decided that digging her allotment would help her through, Muffin was right there with her. She was particularly protective of Tim when he was in the hospice.

In ‘Old Dog’, Barney looks back over the eventful years they shared, to remember the joy and laughter that this loving, soulful creature brought. She explores the Yorkshire countryside illuminating the land and seascapes of Ilkley, Scarborough, Whitby and Leeds itself, through the gentle companionship of her

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Pictured Barney Bardsley & daughter Molly

She seemed to see it as her ‘job’ to look after this family of hers

loyal old dog. Her story will strike a chord with anyone who has ever loved, and been loved, by a pet.

Barney Bardsley lives in Oakwood. She writes features for the Guardian, Psychologies Magazine, Woman’s Weekly, Yorkshire Post and Femail. ‘Old Dog’ is her third book – her first was an investigation into women and crime called ‘Flowers in Hell’ and her second was ‘A Handful of Earth’ documenting her allotment experience.

Although two of her books revolve around coping w i t h life’s major events,

they are full of humour and hope.

She is currently planning her fourth book ‘Diving for Pearls’ which will focus on getting pleasure and sustenance into our lives.

When not writing she gardens, sings with an unruly choir called Good in Parts, and teaches writing and movement at Heydays, an exciting project for the over 55s at West Yorkshire Playhouse. ‘Old Dog’ is available at Waterstones, The Grove Book Shop in Ilkley, other good bookshops, and Amazon.

Barney is speaking at the Morley Literature Festival on Wednesday 9th October, 7.30pm at Tingley Parish Church.

Further details from www. morley literature festival. co.uk

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FOOD AND DRINK

I was really sorry when I heard of the demise of Livebait, but I soon got over it when I heard that the team at Arts Café was moving in to open ‘Shears Yard’ - Leeds’ newest independent ‘kitchen/ bar’. A long time fan of Arts I knew this couldn’t be bad – and I was right!

riginally a rope and canvas manufacturers in the 1800s, Shears Yard has retained many of the industrial features – the exposed brickwork, the stone steps leading to a redundant platform! The décor is quite stark – plain wood tables and chairs, a polished concrete floor.

The walls are bare, making the lighting design, made up of numerous bare bulbs hanging from long wires, a major feature.

Personally I felt the expanse of wall at the end cried out for a large piece of edgy metal sculpture!

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I soon lost interest in my surroundings as a wooden clipboard with the menu attached was thrust into my hands. At first I thought it seemed too complicated. There was too much happening with each dish. For example: a starter described as ‘Confit sea trout, trout crackling, aerated piccalilli sauce, crab & new potato salad, cauliflower Carpaccio & oyster leaf’, or a main course that was ‘Confit duck leg, duck bon bon & smoked duck breast, kale in walnut butter, sweet potato puree & rioja jus’!

See what I mean?

Well how wrong can one be?

Every detail of each dish was there to be savoured and enjoyed. I found myself going back to the menu to identify each element.

What’s wonderful is that this is the type of cooking that you would never do yourself – well I wouldn’t! It takes inspiration and artistry, choosing wonderful fresh ingredients that stand alone yet complement everything else on the plate. This is what eating out is all about.

Three of us ate at Shears Yard that night and, in addition to the above, savoured Chilled pea custard, Yorkshire goats curd, pea shoots, toasted pine nuts, & lemon jelly; Scallops ‘old fashioned’, Bowmore whiskey & orange glazed king scallop, toasted oats & haggis boudin; Plaice fillet cooked in seaweed butter with tempura oysters, cucumber, new potato & caviar crème fraiche; and Corn fed chicken breast, ham hock & sweet corn beignets, roast spring onions, confit tomato & thyme relish. I actually find I am getting a considerable amount of pleasure from just writing these descriptions!

The Confit of Duck Leg was ‘knife-lickingly’ good; the Plaice and tempura oysters amazing; and the Corn fed chicken just so tasty

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Shears Yard has about 60 covers, and is open for both lunch and dinner. There is a separate bar serving local and international craft beers, original cocktails and a carefully chosen wine selection, and an outside seating area.

Shears Yard is at 11-15 Wharf Street, The Calls, Leeds, LS2 7EH. 0113 244 4144. www.shearsyard.com

– though I did wonder how many people would roast their spring onions! The desserts were equally enjoyable. The whole experience went down a treat – lovely staff, nice ambiance. The background ‘music’ left something to be desired but I’m sure little details like that will all be ironed out.

The restaurant is run by Arts Cafe directors Nic Routh, Steven Allison and chef Jamie Clinton Arts devotees have been enjoying his innovative approach since 2010.

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Keep Britain Tidy recently announced a record-breaking number of award-winning parks and green spaces for 2013, and Hollybush Conservation Centre in Kirkstall is one of them. It is among a record-breaking 1,447 parks and green spaces that will receive a prestigious Green Flag Award.

The national award recognises and rewards the best parks and green spaces across the country. A Green Flag is a sign to visitors that the space boasts the highest possible standards, is beautifully maintained and has excellent facilities.

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are absolutely essential to happy, healthy communities”, said Paul Todd, Green Flag Award Scheme Manager. “They are fundamental to our quality of life, whether in cities, towns or villages.

That is why it is so significant that we have given out more awards than ever before.”

Hollybush Conservation Centre is run by The Conservation Volunteers and undertakes a wide range of practical conservation tasks across West Yorkshire, providing opportunities for volunteers to get involved and improve their local environment.

Volunteers have transformed the garden at Hollybush into a thriving community space, a haven for wildlife and an inspiration to visitors. It is managed in a wildlife friendly way and consists of a variety of habitats including ponds, meadows and

woodland, as well as a herb garden, food growing areas and living willow structures.

The garden is home to a variety of birds and butterflies as well as hedgehogs, newts and the occasional deer.

The wildlife garden is open to visitors from Tuesday to Friday and there is a cafe offering light refreshments.

For further information about the garden and volunteering, please contact volunteer coordinator Jess Kandola at J.Kandola@tcv. org.uk

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Becoming a Leeds City Council foster carer brings a range of benefits and support from a dedicated team of experts, as well as access to a citywide fostering network working to improve the lives of vulnerable children and young people in the city.

ostering for a local authority also ensures that children are fostered in their home city, cementing existing links with their local community, allowing them to remain in their own school, and providing stability at a time of immense change.

Leeds City Council is currently looking for foster carers for a variety of fostering, including short term, emergency, long term (until the child reaches adulthood) and fostering children with disabilities. Foster carers must have a spare bedroom and the time to accommodate a child or young person in their lives.

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There is no such thing as a typical foster carer – you can be single, married, divorced, employed, unemployed, with or without children of your own. People from diverse backgrounds are needed so children can benefit from living with families that share their own culture, language and religion.

The Council’s fostering service provides a comprehensive range of training and support, which includes weekly fees and allowances.

To help potential foster carers find out more about fostering and discover what fostering is

really like, the Council recently launched a new website – www. foster4leeds.co.uk - which explains who can foster, the different types of fostering, and the benefits and payment that foster carers receive, together with real life case studies.

If you are interested in finding out more about fostering, you can register your interest by visiting www.foster4leeds.co.uk or by contacting 0113 247 7443 for advice and an information pack. Details of special information evenings can also be found on the foster4leeds website.

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Clock Rock and Two Empty Barrels was dreamt up in the pub one dreary March evening by some locals who wanted to help raise funds to save the 101 year-old Oakwood Clock.

Lord Mayor, Councillor Tom Murray, was on hand to launch the event on 7th September. The crowd rocked to an eclectic mix of local bands and solo artists including The Casinos, The Moonshine Five featuring the Lilies, Peter Stagg, the Blue Sharks, Will Booth, Dave Pilla, stars of the All Star Live, the internationally famous banjo player, Mutton Chops, and rock group Kamelfut.

There were also 20 stalls with products from local artists including stained glass, ceramics, vintage furniture, cards, vinyl jewellery and painters. Local groups like FORP, REAP, OTRA, Roundhay Methodist and Roundhay St John Churches also chipped in. Raffle Prizes were donated

by Michael Lewin Solicitors, the Leeds author Tony Quinn, the jewellery designer Andrew Geogheghan, as well as many of the stallholders.

Food stalls included cake makers, brownies, sweeties, nachos, curry supplied by Oakwood Health and delicious pulled pork sandwiches supplied

by Tasty! Stilt walkers made the kids howl with laughter as they dusted the clock and the gingerbread lady helped children to decorate their biscuits. Flashing T-shirts were sported by Clock Rockers later in the day.

Clock Rock was a free community event funded through grants from the local councillors and the Inner East North East Leeds team with help from Roundhay Park Estates.

Volunteer stewards in yellow jackets and sporting summer trilbies enhanced the family

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atmosphere and kept everyone safe.

“Clock Rock and Two Empty Barrels was a resounding success”, said Alexis Keech, event co-ordinator. “It was a great turn out, with everyone working together to support the restoration of a well-loved local landmark. The Clock Rock team has pulled in over £3,000 worth of donations to date, but we are expecting it to hit £4,000 in the next few days.”

The beer suppliers, Wharfebank Brewery, were overwhelmed by the number of people who wanted to try their brews – in fact, extra beer had to be brought in from Otley to supply the thirsty Clock Rockers!

It should have been called Clock

It was a great turn out, with everyone working together

Rock and Nine Empty Barrels!

If you have any photos or comments, drop the organisers a line through twitter @ clockrockfest or facebook. Clock Rock is also putting together a book of memories –‘Tales from Oakwood’ to raise further funds for the clock – so if you have any memories, please email these to Tales_from_Oakwood@ hotmail.com For further information about the clock, please visit www.oakwoodclock.co.uk Organiser Alexis Keech

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News From Your Councillors CLLR DANIEL COHEN

Alwoodley Ward

Like most sensible people – I don’t like being led down the garden path.

You may know that Neil, Peter and I (and our predecessors before us) have been campaigning hard to ensure that Alwoodley has the healthcare facilities it deserves. We are not looking

We simply want a modern, up-to-date health centre

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Roundhay Ward Since I was elected, a recurrent theme in my casework has been heavy charges imposed on people who have bought their properties as leaseholders.

The following is not a statement of the law, and you should seek legal advice if you have a leasehold issue.

Leaseholds are common where people have bought flats in blocks containing a number of other properties and they are necessary to regulate the rights and

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Problems can arise where major work is required

for special treatment, we simply want what so many other parts of our city have – a modern, up-to-date health centre, able to meet our varied health needs.

After being assured (over many years) that this project was well in hand – it seems that the Primary Care Trust (who no longer exist – and who, I am told, managed to keep this project on the back burner for more years than I care to recall) had not got the project into a sufficiently advanced state before they were brought to an end and their work passed to the new regional team of NHS England.

Hugely frustratingly for so many Alwoodley residents this means we go back to stage one with this important project.

As councillors (and indeed as a council) this is not something that we can

decide upon. The go-ahead now has to come from NHS England and previously from the local Primary Care Trust.

Our job as councillors is to push and push and ensure that those who do make these decisions know how serious our community is about wanting and needing this health centre.

This issue has been around under councils and governments of all different persuasions. All Neil, Peter and I want as Alwoodley councillors, is no more or less than our residents deserve – and that is what we shall continue working towards.

Rant over!

For any and all local queries your local councillors are always here to help.

responsibilities of all residents and the freeholder. Many former Council flats were sold leasehold under right to buy arrangements, and the arrangement is the norm in private blocks too. Often blocks will be partly occupied by tenants and partly by leaseholders.

Problems commonly arise where the freeholder proposes major work to the block - for example a new roof, windows, or decorations to common areas. Tenants will generally pay through their rent, but leaseholders may be asked to pay up front. The liability of leaseholders for such costs is determined by the wording of the lease.

Faced with a bill, leaseholders should consider

their liability under the lease, whether the work really needs doing in all the circumstances, and whether an arrangement can be reached with the freeholder, perhaps to recover the cost when the property is sold, or to spread the work and / or the payments over time.

If agreement cannot be reached, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) may be able to adjudicate. Forms and charges for using LVT services can be found online.

Finally, if buying a property leasehold, always be clear with your solicitor what charges you could become liable for - it could save a lot of difficulty later.

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Eva Pitt and Nicola Billows, both from Roundhay and members of Leeds Photographic Society, recently gained distinctions with the Royal Photographic Society.

They succeeded in gaining their Licentiateships after each submitting ten images for examination by a panel of senior RPS judges.

This month Leeds Photographic Society fixtures include competitions and presentations by visiting speakers on contemporary photography and panoramic cave photography. There will also be an evening of mini lectures where members are invited to give short presentations.

The society welcomes new members. It meets on Tuesdays, 7.30pm in St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Park Road, Roundhay, LS8. Further details from www.lps1852.co.uk/

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Meanwood Valley Urban Farm has been able to purchase muchneeded new equipment, thanks to support from local Councillors Jane Dowson, Mohammed Rafique and Eileen Taylor, who donated £300 from their MICE funds toward the purchase of an industrial strimmer following a request from the Farm.

As you can imagine, as a fully operational farm with a wide range of gardens and plant life, the farm needs regular The new strimmer will help the Farm to clear some unused space for their expanding Therapeutic Gardening Project and Foundation Learning Scheme. The projects provide practical, hands-on training and work placements in horticulture for adults with learning disabilities and young people. The work carried out involves growing a wide selection of fruit, flowers and vegetables, which are sold in the Farm’s shop or to local restaurants. As well as growing produce, the team also works on seasonal projects such as Halloween scarecrows and Christmas wreaths.

“As you can imagine, as a fully operational farm with a wide range of gardens and plant life, the farm needs regular maintenance, especially with the expansion of our learning projects”, said Sue Reddington, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. “A strimmer is a must for our 24-acre site and we are extremely grateful to our local Councillors for their

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continued support.”

“We have a very close relationship with Meanwood Valley Urban Farm and we try to help out whenever we can”, said Councillor Jane Dowson.

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. Surgarwell Road, LS7 2QG, is open to the public every day, 10am – 4pm (Admission £1 adults, 50p children under 16). For more information, visit www.mvuf.org. uk or call 0113 262 9759

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The Grandparents Association is looking for volunteers to work on an Information and Support helpline.

It is estimated that one million UK children lose touch with their grandparents as a result of separation or divorce, whilst 200,000 grandparents and other family are raising grandchildren, often in difficult circumstances and with little or no support.

Operating since 1987, the association works throughout the UK and is the only national membership organisation for grandparents. It aims to improve the lives of children by working with grandparents, especially those who have lost or are losing

One million UK children lose touch contact with their grandchildren because of divorce, separation or other family matters; are caring for their grandchildren on a full time basis; have childcare responsibilities for their grandchildren; or are interested in the education and welfare of their grandchildren.

Volunteers will answer calls from grandparents, families and professionals on issues relating

with their grandparents as a result of separation or divorce

to caring for grandchildren on a full time basis, or have lost or are losing contact. They need to be able to work from their own homes for at least one two-hour session a week and will be given training, on-going support and all necessary expenses. “This is a great opportunity for people to use their skills and develop new ones while giving vital support to grandparents who are often at the end of their tether!� said David Cousins, the Association’s Leeds Manager.

Training will take place in Leeds from late October.

If you would like to find out more, please contact Rob Cook (Leeds Volunteer Co-ordinator) rob.cook@grandparentsassociation.org.uk or David Cousins (Leeds Manager) david.cousins@grandparentsassociation.org.uk or call 0113 244 6111

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In Spring we had the yellows and pinks but this month the garden comes into its own with the blaze of colour – from oranges to dark reds. ays are getting shorter, so we’ll have to do most of our work cleaning up the garden at weekends. There is quite a drop in temperature and it’s time to pick the last of the fruit and harvest the carrots. Leave parsnips and sprouts until there is a touch of frost. Dig over empty patches of ground and prepare other areas if you are planting up new shrubs, trees and perennials while the ground is still warm.

It’s also time to clean your greenhouse. Stand all plants outside whilst you clean windows and scrub down shelving.

Return your plants to the clean greenhouse and check over any heating appliances you may have to make sure they are in working order.

When tidying the borders leave some seed heads and hips for the birds to feed on. Keep clearing leaves and adding them to a compost heap or place in black plastic bags and leave for a year to rot down. Ponds need tidying too and netting over if you already haven’t to stop leaves falling in and rotting. Pumps

should be removed too and stored until next year.

Plant up lilies and tulips at the end of the month. Tulips should always be the last planted then there is less risk of tulip fire.

Spring bedding plants can go in ready for a good show next year.

I hope that over the last year children have been encouraged to help in the garden and even grown their own flowers and vegetables.

Sadly this is my last ‘Garden Round Up’. After nearly four years it is time for some fresh input, I hope that some of my tips have rubbed off and that the many new to gardening have learnt something.

Plant up lilies and tulips at the end of the month THANK YOU KATH! We are sorry to say goodbye to Kath. Her column has been appreciated by so many of our readers.

Garden Round Up arrived like clockwork every month – we always knew that if we had nothing else to feature in the magazine Kath’s column would be there! We’re sure her tips will be used for years to come. Thank you, Kath.

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BIRD WATCH WITH STAN KENYON The presence of birds is continually changing.

Some are becoming more numerous and widespread, others more scarce, while many stay about the same. One in the first category is the Little Egret, which first invaded in good numbers in 1989 and first bred in 1996 in Dorset.

A member of the heron family, though smaller than a heron, the Little Egret is readily identified by its brilliant white plumage. Slim and elegant, it has a black bill and legs and yellow feet. As a waterside bird it spends much time wading slowly or standing still.

Little Egrets frequent muddy or sandy shores or marshy lakes, feeding on small fish, frogs and snails.

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Chantel McGregor was presented with two awards at the recent Great British R&B Festival in Colne – Guitarist of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year, building on past successes when she was voted Female Vocalist of the Year in 2012 and Young Artist of the Year in 2011.

It’s a refreshing change and a ‘justifiable first’ in the history of the British Blues Awards that a female artist has been voted Guitarist of the Year!

Winning four awards in three years, in three different categories, demonstrates just how versatile she is as an artist.

In an industry where male guitarists have received most of the limelight on and off stage, it’s a refreshing change and a ‘justifiable first’ in the history of the British Blues Awards that a female artist has been voted Guitarist of the Year!

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Hayley Gaftarnick - Circles This excellent, long awaited album release from Hayley Gaftarnick bears the hallmarks of the confidence and effortless technical ability that characterise her live performances and has the lush feel of a homegrown modern soul classic. Aided and abetted by fantastic backing players and the contributions from some of the finest local talent, Circles is an intoxicating listen, steeped in a mellifluous soulful vibe which envelops the listener.

Gaftarnick launches an irresistible two-pronged attack, wielding both ferocious rhythm guitar and a deeply resonant, rich, gutsy vocal, as illustrated on the sun-drenched, jaunty Too Close for Comfort and the shuffling, horn punctuated singalong I Don’t Mind. Title track, Circles, is a belting old school soul ballad in the vein of the great Etta James.

It’s gladdening to find that, contrary to popular belief, they do make ‘em like that anymore.

The Reggae inflected Forgive Me is a little more low-key but soars due to the lush vocal arrangements and harmonies.

The lovely Don’t Leave, which comes across like a 60’s girl group number (and features a tasty little guitar solo), and Forget You, showcase the band’s skilful and sensitive ensemble playing which frames Hayley’s stunning vocal perfectly.

Hayley’s heavily rhythmic approach to song writing and performance means that she requires a band behind her that can work a groove. Happily, on this record she’s assembled musicians more than up to the task. The playing is roundly solid throughout, the production has

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a seductive warmth to it and Hayley’s voice is placed right up front. The faultless vocal performances here display a distinctively raw and honest voice with scope for both the power of a battle cry and the intimately confided vulnerability that runs through the lyrical content.

I’ve long held Hayley Gaftarnick in particularly high esteem as a live performer.

She’s got choice guitar chops,

Here is a distinctively raw and honest voice with scope for both the power of a battle cry and the intimately confided vulnerability that runs through the lyrical content

she’s got a voice that makes you sit up and listen, but, most importantly, she’s got the songs.

It’s pleasing that this superb recording manages to capture all the excitement and visceral thrills of her live sets while rendering definitive versions of the tunes which feel timeless.

It’s a little bit of a shame that the release of this album has been delayed until now. It would have made a perfect soundtrack to the glorious summer we’ve just enjoyed. Listening again, it’s clear that Circles is set to become a perennial favourite, the songs and instrumentation have been crafted and honed to perfection and suggest that a lifetime of listening enjoyment is in store. So, better late than never, Circles proves to be absolutely worth the wait.

The official launch gig for the album takes place at Brudenell Social Club on Friday, 4th October and promises to be one of the live highlights of the year. It’s certainly one not to be missed. See you there!

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Pitched, no doubt, as a science-fiction adventure for the Occupy Generation, Elysium is a decent, watchable sci-fi thriller which, unfortunately, fails to live up to its early promise.

Director, Blomkamp, who gave us the refreshingly different and well received District 9, again shows his knack for creating convincingly scuzzy futuristic dystopia but seems unable to avoid lapsing into Hollywood cliché.

Set in the year 2154, Earth has become a third world planet. The 1% have upped sticks to luxurious space station, Elysium, essentially a gated community in the sky, while the rest of the poor, huddled masses toil below in a brutally policed, endless shantytown sprawl.

Matt Damon plays Max, a former petty criminal now reformed and working in blue collar drudgery assembling the robots which attend to the upkeep of Earth’s infrastructure, such as it is.

When a workplace accident exposes Max to a lethal dose of radiation his only hope for survival is to reach Elysium and avail himself of one of the

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miraculously hi-tech medical pods which, it seems, can cure just about anything except fatal cases of death.

Forced to seek the help of his former criminal associates, Max becomes involved in a plan to hijack valuable ‘cerebral

the eye in District 9 and handles the action adroitly, the Earthbound chase and shoot out scenes are pretty exciting

data’ (in the future the brain is everyone’s external hard drive) and gain passage to Elysium.

Along the way he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart whose leukemia-stricken daughter could also do with taking advantage of Elysium’s premium healthcare.

Needless to say, the hijacking doesn’t go according to plan and Max finds himself pursued by mercenary government agent, Kruger (District 9’s Sharlto Copley) who’s been dispatched

by Elysium’s unscrupulous secretary of defence, Jessica Delacourt (Jodie Foster), who takes a particularly hard line on

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Elysium starts strong, with a Sci-Fi concept which addresses issues of immigration and the disparity between rich and poor.

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adroitly, the Earthbound chase and shoot out scenes are pretty exciting.

A strong central cast do as well as they can with a script that isn’t particularly character led.

Damon is reliably solid as Max, Jodie Foster works the steely ice maiden thing as the sinister Delacourt and Sharlto Copley makes a convincingly menacing badass scumbag as Kruger.

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It’s just over a year since Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott last graced the stage at Leeds Town Hall for a sell-out concert.

These two know each other so well they almost synchronise their breathing.

They have such a repertoire of songs that they are never likely to run out – nor ever play the same combination.

Last year, without a second thought, they both responded instantaneously to song requests from the audience.

Once there was a “We haven’t played that one for a while”.

But they still launched into it effortlessly.

One of contemporary Irish music’s best-loved singer/ songwriters, with a successful recording career spanning over 40 years, Christy’s stature and influence in Irish music is unparalleled.

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LCM STUDENTS PLAY FOR GREENPEACE Students from Leeds College of Music have organised a concert at Wharf Chambers CoOperative Club, Wharfe Street (just off The Calls Leeds) to raise funds for a survival pod for Greenpeace activists to live in during actions in the Arctic.

The gig will kick-off at 7.30pm, on Thursday 3rd October, showcasing the musical talent at LCM. The audience will also be able to see videos of Greenpeace actions and to sign-up to the Save the Arctic campaign.

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling.

Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

The line-up will be: Rebecca Joanne

and Christopher Bland (Pop); Calvin Travers (Jazz Fusion); Hora Douse (Rock); Zeitgeist (Contemporary Jazz) Emma Dockeray; (Pop) The Funk Band; The Qul Project (Alternative Jazz); Toby Noble (acoustic guitar) Tickets: £5/ £3. You must be a member or guest to attend. Joining costs £1.

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Drenge Tue 1 Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £8. Punked up blues-rock mayhem with a heavy grunge edge.

China Rats Tue 1 Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £6.

Leeds rock band with bags of charm, inspired by love of punk, 50s pop & best British guitar bands.

Spacehog Wed 2 Oct The Cockpit, £12.50. Special homecoming for this Leeds via New York four piece.

Klaus Johann Grobe Wed

2 Oct, Oporto £4. Swiss duo playing a kind of danceable Krautrock informed ‘80’s NY punk funk pioneers.

Airborne Toxic Event Thu

3 Oct, The Cockpit, £15. Hotly tipped band compared to everyone from Modest Mouse & Arcade Fire, to the Clash & U2.

Holydrug Couple Thu 3

Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £5. Chilean Psych-Rockers.

Blessthefall Fri 4 Oct, The

Cockpit, £10. This Phoenix, Arizona five-piece play post hardcore/screamo with big choruses & heavy guitars

Hayley Gaftarnick+Guests Fri 4

Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £5.50. Debut album launch from talented local singersongwriter. See album review

Taba Time Sun 6 Oct, Seven Arts, 1:30pm, £5/ £7. Music of US bass man Dean Taba.

Danny Elfman’s Music

From Films of Tim Burton Tue 8 Oct, FD Arena, £25 £55. Orchestra event features Danny Elfman’s famous film scores with BBC Concert Orchestra.

Devon Sproule & Mike O’Neill Tues 8 Oct,

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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Tue 8 Oct, Leeds Uni Union, £15.Godfather of dub & high priest of reggae. Bob Marley’s producer & truly original musical innovator.

Bruce Adams & Alan Barnes Thu 10 Oct, Seven

Arts, £14 - £16. Brilliant trumpeter equally at home in big band or small ensemble..

Mary Coughlan Thu 10 Oct, City Varieties Music Hall, £18. The big voice of Ireland with jazz & blues influenced songs of passion.

Goldie Lookin’ Chain

Fri 11 Oct, Leeds University Union, £13.20. Comical Welsh Hip-Hop crew.

The Heathen Kings + Duncan McFarlane Fri 11

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip Tue 15 Oct, Brudenell

Social Club, £11.50.

Hip-Hop/Electro duo mixing coolness, humour & wry commentary with highly original material.

These New Puritans Wed 16 Oct, Vox Warehouse, £16.50. Sinister, minimal synth & spiked up artrock guitars.

Deptford Goth Wed 16 Oct, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, £9.90. Melancholic, intimate, emotional soundscapes.

Public Image Ltd Thu 17 Oct, O2 Academy, £30.50.

John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols innovative, experimental Art-Pop project.

Oct, HEART, Bennett Rd. Headingley £6/£8. Acoustic folk-rock fusing guitars, mandolins, harmonica, banjo & fearless four part vocals.

PINS Thu 17 Oct, Belgrave

Darden Smith Sat 12 Oct,

Oct, The Wardrobe, £16.50.

Internationally popular reggae group from 70s roots era.

Seven Arts, £9. Rootsy singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas,

Johnny Marr Sun 13 Oct, Leeds Met, £23.10.

Legendary guitarist from The Smiths, Electronic, The Modest Mouse &The Cribs.

Brother & Bones Sun 13 Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £8. Described as ‘Mumford & Sons meets The Dead Weather’.

Temples Mon 14 Oct,

Music Hall, £7.70 All girl four-piece from Manchester playing fuzzy indie guitars.

Mighty Diamonds Thu 17

The Urban Voodoo Machine Fri 18 Oct,

Brudenell Social Club, £13.20. Purveyors of ‘Bourbon-soaked Gypsy Blues Bop ‘n’ stroll’.

Tamikrest Fri 18 Oct, Howard Assembly Room, £15. Desert blues rock band singing in Tamashek, the language of the Touareg.

Brudenell Social Club, £10.

British neo-psychedelic trippy dance & rock-oriented pop.

Charlene Soraia Fri 18 Oct, The Wardrobe, £11. Talented and captivating singer/ songwriter & guitarist.

The Jim Jones Revue Mon

The Answer Sat 19 Oct,

14 Oct, The Cockpit, £13.75.

Supercharged back-to-basics 50’s rock’n’roll

San Cisco Mon 14 Oct, Belgrave Music Hall, £9.90.

Melodic, sun-kissed, upbeat & infectious sound.

The Cockpit, £15.40.

Contemporary Bluesy, riff heavy hard rock in the Led Zep/ Free vein.

The Impossible Gentlemen Sat 19 Oct,

Seven Arts, £18 - £20.

Award winning jazz pianist

Gwilym Simcock, guitarist Mike Walker, bass player Steve Rodby & drummer Adam Nussbaum.

James Farrell Concert Band: An Evening of Film & Show Music Sat 19 Oct,

7.30pm at Meanwood Holy Trinity Church. Tickets (£5/£3) from Howard on 07825 725299. All proceeds to Joseph Lillywhite’s Journey

Smoke Fairies Sat 19 Oct,

College of Music, £9.90.

Fusion of English folk, Deep South blues & Appalachian ballads

Ian Skelly Sat 19 Oct,

Holy Trinity Church, £11.

Singer/ songwriter, multiinstrumentalist, visual artist & former drummer with The Coral.

To Kill A King Tue 22 Oct, Brudenell Social Club, £9. Folk-inspired 5-piece compared to likes of Keane & Arcade Fire.

Peter Hook Fri 25 Oct, The Cockpit, £22. New Order & Joy Division founder member & his band.

Roots: Brendan Croker & Ray Stubbs Fri 25 Oct, 8pm

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Mr Scruff Sat 26 Oct, Canal

Mills. Legendary Ninja Tune DJ famed for his awesome hip-hop sound, 6-hour sets & sense of the comic.

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SUCCESSFUL DALES WALKING FESTIVAL RAISED THOUSANDS FOR CHARITIES Over 1,000 walkers on the annual Yorkshire Dales Walking Festival in August clocked up a total of 17,250 miles – the equivalent of walking to Australia and back!

anging from seasoned trekkers to family strollers, they challenged themselves to complete one of three routes – from a modest five miles, to a tough 28 mile circuit.

Between them they raised tens of thousands of pounds for a variety of charities.

The festival started and finished in Settle. The 28-mile ‘Hard as Dales’ course took in the limestone cliff of Malham Cove, Malham Tarn and Fountain’s Fell with stunning views of Peny-Ghent and Ingleborough. The 14-mile ‘Blockbuster’ route gave walkers panoramic views over Malhamhide and included a 418-step climb up Malham Cove.

And, the five mile ‘Rocky Road’ walk took walkers through the heart of Attermire Scar before descending back into Settle.

Walkers were encouraged to raise funds for a cause of their choice, but especially the event’s

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partner charities: Vasculitis UK, Parkinson’s UK, Epilepsy Action, Heart Research, Macmillan Cancer Support, Martin House Children’s Hospice, Diabetes UK, Arthritis Research, Yorkshire Cancer Research and the Jane Tomlinson Appeal.

Walk For All is part of Jane Tomlinson’s last legacy of charitable events, which comprise runs, walks and swims.

Profits from the events go to the Jane Tomlinson Appeal.

From trekkers to family strollers, they challenged themselves to complete one of three routes

MATTY LEE WINS ALL COLOURS AT JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Matty Lee (15) from Alwoodley, who dives for the City of Leeds Diving Club and Great Britain, went out to Poznan, Poland in August for the 2013 Junior European Diving Championships and came away with a Gold!

Part of the 12 strong GB Team, and with 27 other countries in attendance, the pressure was on for him to be the first GB diver to retain his Championship status.

He put on an untouchable performance on the 3m spring board and ended up with a Gold medal. He also took Bronze on the 1m spring board and put on an impressive performance on Platform, but was just pipped to the post by a Russian diver. But he did of course come away with a well-deserved Silver.

It was a very successful trip for Team GB who came second in the medal table behind Russia!

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NHS England and the 212 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) around the country have put out a ‘Call to Action’, to give you a say in the development of your health service both nationally and locally. Everyone is being invited to join in a discussion and help to plan how best to deliver services, now and in the years ahead.

A number of meetings will be held around Leeds – so keep your eyes open and be sure to catch one near you. These events will set out the facts about future demands on NHS services, how the budget is being spent and how services are delivered. Your input is vital to help identify ideas that are sustainable and respect the values that underpin the NHS. A lot has changed since the NHS was established 65 years ago. Demand for services has gone through the roof but, after several years of increased funding, the NHS will only receive flat funding in the next few years and will need to meet rising demand for health care services. Something has to give.

What are the CCGs doing?

There are three CCGs in Leeds and we dropped in to see Nigel Gray, Chief Officer of for NHS Leeds North CCG, which covers the Chapeltown – Otley – Wetherby triangle, to get a clearer view of what was happening (it’s a pity they didn’t just call them Healthcare Purchasing Groups!)

“CCGs are responsible for ensuring that people receive good quality care”, explained Nigel. “We ensure that the money is used to best possible effect – in our case for the population in the Leeds north area.

“GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals are

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Health care is becoming much more flexible. Do patients in North Leeds want to see more of that? – from what they’ve told us we think they do at the forefront of what’s happening. We are working with the 31 GP practices in North Leeds to ensure that our £245 million is used to buy the best services for patients. We commission hospital care, mental health and community services.

We buy hip replacements, cataract care, district nursing care, out of hours care, and much more.

We don’t buy specialised care like cardiac, renal

or burns treatment, as it makes more sense to do this nationally.

GP services are commissioned

by NHS England. ” We were amazed to discover the health inequalities that existed across the city – those in Chapeltown are quite different to those in Otley or Roundhay.

Having three CCGs in Leeds allows them to focus on these inequalities and purchase the appropriate services for each area. CCGs have been meeting and working with patient and community groups around the city to ensure they get a clear picture of the needs of each area.

Buying the right services for North Leeds “We have tough decisions to make and patients’ input is vital to ensure we get it right – hence our Call to Action. It is a massive agenda and we need to get people talking about health and social care integration”, Nigel continued. “We don’t have all the answers and that’s why we need patients’ input.”

A great deal of work has already been done in this area.

Over £800,000 has been spent on District Nurses and a similar amount on care for the elderly.

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coordinated, multidisciplinary Health & Social Care Teams are being put in place, streamlining the service and bringing all the elements under one umbrella.

More patients will be treated at home. The aim is to provide care and support in the community – making the quality of care better and improving the patient experience whilst saving money on hospital stays and appointments.

“We are working closely with Third Sector organisations like Community Links in Chapel Allerton, Anchor Care, Leeds Mind, as well as the local authority and others. They know the locality and the residents and can help us provide the best service.

“We are also using technology more and making it possible for people to access services through their phone or

computer, sending prompts regarding medication etc. and looking at new ways to support patients.

“Where mental health is concerned we have made a considerable investment in increasing access to psychological therapies – and we are working with our services to develop a range of innovative ways for people to access support including stress seminars, computer based therapy, group education sessions and online therapy.”

Aiming for the one-stop-shop More emphasis is also being put on the care closer to home concept. Community based clinics – such as the ear, nose and throat service in Meanwood Health Centre – are supported by visits from specialist hospital consultants and GPs are having special training in other areas, to offer wider services from their own surgeries.

“Community care is developing many more areas of specialism, so you can be seen locally and not have to go to hospital. Health care is becoming much more flexible. Do patients in North Leeds want to see more of that? – from what they’ve told us we think they do. They want to see more

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We have become accustomed over recent months to reading bad news about our NHS services. It is as if the media have only one slant on NHS care, and that is a negative one.

Of course there are problems with NHS services, but the experience of the NHS that most of us have is really positive. In particular, we are very much aware of the dedication, commitment and care provided by so many NHS staff – nurses, therapists, doctors, carers, and so many others.

Negative publicity about NHS services is unfair to these hard-working and committed staff. They need our support,

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not the blanket condemnation of the media.

We know that people feel positive about our NHS because of the comments and feedback that we in Leeds Hospital Alert receive from so many local residents. A good example of this has been provided by the Leeds NHS Birthday Celebrations this year and previous years, when local people have written their comments on NHS services to pass on to politicians and managers.

The overwhelming message of these comments is “Thank You, NHS!” Thank you to the wonderful staff, and thank you for the whole message of the NHS, which is that it should be

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a publicly owned and publicly provided service which puts patients’ clinical need first, before considerations of profit and financial gain.

Leeds Hospital Alert is working with other campaigning organisations to encourage us to express our thanks to our NHS and for our NHS. We want to pass the message on and to show our support for our NHS staff.

Wearing our distinctive “Thank You NHS” badges is one way of doing this; and there are many other ways to show our support.

If you would like to support the campaign to say “Thank You NHS”, please get in touch with Leeds Hospital Alert at 16 Ring Road, Leeds LS16 6EJ, or at info@leedshospitalalert.org.uk

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GB’s Kayaking superstar Claire O’Hara, who’s from Meanwood, recently won two gold medals at the 2013 ICF World Freestyle Kayaking Championships in the US. Claire went into the World Championships as defending World Champion in two disciplines.

Doubling the double, Claire not only defended her squirt boating world title for the third time but also defended her freestyle kayak world title to bring her World Gold medal count to five, in a spectacular display of athleticism and skill. In nail biting finals Claire took her World title to become the most successful female freestyle kayaker in history.

The ICF World Championships saw over 200 athletes, from 26 countries, come to the Nantahala Gorge in North Carolina, USA, to

compete in the pinnacle event of the sport. This biannual event brings the best of the best together to compete for the World Championship Gold Medal. Of the eight Gold medals given out at this year’s event, the USA took all except for the two defended by Claire.

She dominated the squirt boating throughout the event setting the highest score of the event in the semi final round. Claire took the Women’s title with double the score of the closet competitor, Motoko Ishida of Japan.

This is the first time any athlete has doubled the double and Claire is one of only two athletes to have won five ICF Freestyle World Championship Gold medals.

Claire is currently a predominately self-funded athlete

and works as a freelance outdoor instructor. She spends most of the year travelling and training on some of the world’s best features, allowing her to stay at the top of the game.

Claire would like to thank a number of individuals and organisations for helping to get her to this event, including Dennis Newton at Sweetwater Coaching, Teva, Jackson Kayaks, Peak UK and all her sponsors. She is currently looking for financial sponsorship so she can continue to be the top female Freestyle Kayaker in the world. If you can help, contact her at ohara_ claire@hotmail. com, www. claireohara. co.uk.

Pilates Classes HS Modern Pilates Mat work Pilates classes in Leeds Phone or visit our website for more information on the benefits of Pilates

M: 07738 006 353 E: Hannah@hsmodernpilates.co.uk W: www.hsmodernpilates.co.uk

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A North Leeds English teacher has written a series of exciting football books aimed at encouraging more girls to take up the sport.

Buoyed by the recent Women’s Euro 2013 competition in Sweden, and noticing a distinct lack of books on this subject, Hattie Trix (pseudonym) has put pen to paper to write a four book series following the ups and downs of ‘Suzie Boots and the Amazing Amazonians AFC’ as they contend with all that the beautiful game has to kick at them.

Each title takes the reader on a different footballing adventure and although they are aimed at aspiring players (6-11 years), they are a fun read for adults too.

With a mixture of text and colour illustrations, captain Suzie Boots and her Amazing Amazonians bring to life the enthralling adventures which come from playing for a football team.

The author has played for various teams (both locally and further afield) and is also a qualified FA Coach so she knows all about the trials and tribulations of the game.

“Now is an ideal time to get involved in women’s football as the sport is becoming increasingly professionalised”, she said. “The expansion of the Women’s Super League into two leagues from the summer of 2014 and the five year plan announced by the FA in 2012 to increase the popularity of the sport in England, mean that there are more opportunities for girls to play.”

Aside from football, Hattie Trix is very interested in finding ways to encourage youngsters to read and took inspiration from some of her students.

‘Suzie Boots and the Amazing Amazonians’ is published

by BJM Publishing and is available exclusively from www. bjm-publishing.co.uk

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Small classes (water based instruction) at: The Grammar School at Leeds Sun 9.00am-1.00pm / Mon 6.00-7.00pm Mount School, York Sun 4.00-6.00pm Classes from 3yrs up

Telephone for details: 0113 255 9881

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THREE LITTLE PIGS SET TO BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN! Three Little Pigs, Northern Ballet’s new ballet for children will première in Leeds in October.

overcome the Big Bad Wolf in a colourful, funny and entertaining 40-minute performance.

“We hope Three Little Pigs gives more children and families in Leeds the opportunity to visit the theatre and see ballet for the first time”, said Selina McGonagle, Director of Learning at Northern Ballet. “We will be working with a variety of community groups in Chapeltown and Hunslet and hope that by delivering fun, movement and play activity based around the little pigs, we will encourage families to give ballet a go.”

Three Little Pigs will embark on an extensive national tour to 21 venues across the UK in Spring 2014.

Tickets cost just £5/ £4. For further information, visit www. northernballet.com/threelittlepigs

The second production in Northern Ballet’s series of Short Ballets for Small People, Three Little Pigs has been created to introduce families and young children to live dance, music and theatre. It will be performed at The Hunslet Club (20 Oct), The Riley Theatre (26 Oct) and the Stanley & Audrey Burton (28 Oct – 2 Nov).

Three Little Pigs follows the sell-out success of Ugly Duckling, which toured over 20 venues and delighted audiences.

Choreographed by dancers Hannah Bateman and Victoria Sibson, Three Little Pigs tells the famous story of how the pigs

ROUNDHAY SCHOOL All-through education fron 4 to 18

Primary Open Evenings For Prospective Parents

Monday 18th November

6.00-7.00pm

Thursday 5th December

6.00-7.00pm

Web

www.roundhayschool.org.uk

Phone

0113 3931207

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Email Address

primary@roundhay.leeds.sch.uk Elmete Lane, Leeds, LS8 2LG

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COMMUNITYNOTICES ACTIVE

£5. Details: Joyce 278 9891,

Alwoodley Community Association Badminton Club Friendly group

Moortown Rugby Union Respect, teamwork,

welcomes all abilities for badminton & social events Mon from 9pm & Wed from 8.30pm. Details: Vicky

07561 292699, Phil 268 9996, acabc@gmx.co.uk, www. alwoodley community association.co.uk

Alwoodley Martial Arts Club Mon 6.30 – 8.30pm

Moortown Methodist Church, Alderton Rise, LS17. Wed 6 – 8pm Alwoodley Community Association, The Avenue, LS17. Now accepting new members. Details: 07729

392 546, kibbsuk@gmail. org.uk

Leeds English Folk Dancing Society Weds,

Meanwood Methodist Church (School Room), 7.30 – 9.30pm. Details: Derry

Fletcher 07792 319744

Leeds Naturist Group

(founded 1985) meets Sat 5 – 6.30pm at Bramley Baths & is open to all. Naturist swim & Russian steam bath, followed by refreshments in the studio. Identity documents required on first visit.

Details: leedsnaturistgroup@ gmail.com, www. leedsnaturistgroup.com

Leeds Tai Chi Academy

Weekly class Mon 7-9pm at Chapel Allerton Primary School, Harrogate Rd, LS7. £5/4. Details: 07581 217074

Like to Walk? Join a group of walkers who meet Tues twice a month for 10 – 12 mile walks starting 10am.

Details: Richard 267 3623

Lindy Hop Dance Classes Mon 8 – 11pm,

Moortown Social Club, LS17 5LA. Beginners 8pm, Intermediate 9.30pm, Followed by social dancing.

www.swingjiveleeds.com

discipline, fun. Brilliant club for under 7s (Year 2) to adults. They train & play Sun 10:30am at Moss Valley, LS17 7NT. Details: Damian

Curtis 07860 454701, damian.curtis@bt.com or www.pitchero.com/clubs/ moortownrufc/

Pudsey & District Rambling Club Walks of

5 - 10 miles Sun & alt Thurs.

New members welcome in this friendly, long established club with members from all over the district. Annual membership £8 (£1 juniors).

Try before you join. Details:

01943 430657

Ramgarhia Sports Centre Adults: Circuit

Training (Mon & Wed 6.30 – 7.30pm; Fri 6 – 7pm). £5 per class. Children: Cricket (ages 8-16, Sun 10am – noon); Hockey (Fri, 5 – 6pm). £2 per class. All abilities welcome. Details: 262 5657,

‘Ramgarhia Sikh Centre’ on facebook.

Roundhay parkrun Sat

8.45am for 9am start, at the bandstand near The Mansion.

Free 5k timed run for all ages & abilities. Details: www.

parkrun.org.uk/roundhay

St Gemma’s Sahara Trek & Community Challenge 19 - 26 October

2013. Experience the Sahara desert, life of the nomadic tribes, sleep under the stars, & help a community project in Morocco – all in aid of St. Gemma’s Hospice. Details:

218 5570, elizabethf@ st-gemma.co.uk, www.stgemma.co.uk

St Gemma’s Sponsored Skydives 12 Oct or your own date. Take part in an

exhilarating tandem skydive.

Raise minimum of £395 & you can jump for free!

Details: 218 5570, skydive@ st-gemma.co.uk

Walkabout! Alwoodley-

based friendly group that enjoy walks, both local & further afield. Varied programme, short medium or long walks take place at weekends, evenings & midweek. Social activities too.

All welcome. Details: Barbara

Wakefield 285 7136, Sarah Barnes 261 9212, Nicky Whitfield 267 9867 www. alwoodleywalkabout.org.uk

Zumba Classes Fri

3.30 – 4.30pm, Northcall Community Centre, Cranmer Bank LS17. £1.50. Details:

268 9993

ARTS & CRAFTS Alwoodley Art Group

Meets Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm at The Community Hall, The Avenue, Alwoodley, LS17 2NZ. Practical meetings, workshops, demonstrations & talks. New members of all abilities welcome. Details:

2251546, info@5dpublicity. com, www.alwoodleyartgroupleeds.com

Stainbeck Art Club

2nd & 4th Tues, 1.45 – 4pm Meeting Room, Methodist Community Centre, Town St. Chapel Allerton. Practical & demonstrations. Also painting & sketching days out.

New members all abilities welcome. Details: Rose or

Ken 266 5005

COFFEE MORNINGS, FAIRS & MARKETS Community Cafe Thurs

11am – 2pm at Stainbeck United Reformed Church.

Bookstall, ENEHL Debt & Benefit Advice, Police Contact Point, free wifi & help available. Followed by craft club.

FREE FOR charities, churches, social clubs & non-profit community groups

Coffee, Cake & Chat

Every 4th Sat, 10.30am – noon, Stainbeck Church, Stainbeck Rd. Cake stall, books, Fairtrade. All welcome. www.stainbeck.urc. org.uk

Oakwood Farmers’ Market 9am – 12.30pm at

Oakwood Clock.

St Gemma’s Vintage Fair 16 & 17 Nov. Entry by

donation. Fantastic retro clothes, accessories, vinyl & furniture. Plus vintage hair & make-overs, vintage tea shop & Leeds auctioneer Gary Don will value your treasures for a small donation to the Hospice.

St Gemma’s Autumn Fair Sat 5 Oct, 10am – 3pm

at Hospice, Harrogate Rd, Moortown. Wide array of stalls, children’s activities & harvest fruit & veg sale. Live entertainment, circus skills & face-painting, fundraising stalls (Donations welcome.

Please leave at Reception) & games, Hog Roast. Entry by donation. Details: Michelle

218 5570, michelleb@stgemma.co.uk

GROUPS/CLUBS Air Yorkshire Aviation Society Interested in

aviation, aircraft old and new, airports? Why not try Air Yorkshire - regular guest speakers, trips & social events. Details: Dave Senior

282 1818, www.airyorkshire. org.uk

Alwoodley Motor Club Every other Thurs,

8.30pm, The Wharfedale Inn, Arthington Lane. All welcome. Details: 391 0403,

www.alwoodleymc.org.uk.

Bridge For All! Leeds Bridge Club, Stonegate Rd, Moortown A friendly bridge club offering Bridge five nights a week for experienced

EMAIL YOUR COMMUNITY NOTICES TO CAROLE@NORTHLEEDSLIFE.CO.UK

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players. No partner needed on Tues & Thurs. Lessons for all levels from beginners upwards. Details: Anne 203

7821, www.leedsbridgeclub. com

Friends of Allerton Grange Fields Friendly

group of volunteers working to maintain & enhance Allerton Grange Fields off Lidgett Lane, LS17. New volunteers welcome to join events & activities, including litter picks, bulb & tree planting, shrub clearance.

Details: foagf@outlook.com, www.friendsallertongrange.org

Gledhow Valley Conservation Area Group A voluntary group

that focuses on the heritage, green spaces & structures of the Conservation Area, bringing people together to value the historic environment with fundraising & social events. Details: gvcag@yahoo.

co.uk, www.gledhow.org.uk

please contact them. Details:

268 0488, leedscatrescue@ googlemail.com, www. leedscatrescue.btck.co.uk

Leeds Elmet Probus Club provides a social

gathering for retired men from professional & business backgrounds. Meets last Tues of month, 12 noon at Leeds 17 Restaurant, Nursery Lane, for lunch followed by guest speaker & short business meeting. Details: Keith Robson

230 1559

Leeds Bridge Club Moor

Allerton Sports & Social Centre (MASSC), Stonegate Rd, LS17 Beginners classes: Mon 2 – 4.15pm, Fri 7 – 9.15pm, Thurs 1.30 - 3.45pm from 30 Sept. Improvers: Tues 12.45 – 3pm, Thurs 7 9.15pm, Fri 10 – 12.15pm, Fri 7 – 9.15pm from 1 Oct. Details:

Gill Copeland 225 7237, www. leedsbridgeclub.com

Leeds Hospital Alert

Greenpeace Leeds meet 1st Mon of month, 6.30pm Wharf Chambers, Wharf St, LS2 (by The Calls). Join the growing action to protect our forests, oceans & stop climate chaos. Details: Joe 07929

Small group of concerned people campaigning for preservation of the NHS. Meets at Muir Court, St Michael’s Rd. LS6. Next meetings: 16 Oct; 12 Nov.

Headingley Games Club

Leeds Microscopical Society can help anyone

610773, www.greenpeace.org. uk/groups Thurs 6.30 – 10.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Board games: Settlers, Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, mst Euro-games, etc. Tabletop games: 40k, Hordes, Flames of War, War machine, etc & Role Playing Games. Details: 275 9762,

http://headingleygamesclub. com/ Facebook group: Headingley Games Club

Kaleidoscope Social Club

for over 50s & unattached with a zest for life. Monthly programme of events. Not a dating agency. Details: 262

1455 or 261 2619, www. kaleidoscopeleeds.weebly.com

Leeds Cat Rescue is

run by a group of cat loving volunteers who rehabilitate & do whatever they can for lost, neglected & forgotten cats & kittens. If you can offer a loving home for one of them,

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Details: Beatrice Rogers 278 5495, info@leedshospitalalert. org.uk

interested in using a microscope. Details:

Mike Smith 293 5991, leedsmicroscopical.org.uk

Leeds Movie Makers Get more out of your camcorder & film making. Stainbeck United Reformed Church Hall, Stainbeck Lane (rear entrance), Fri 7:30pm. Details:

George Woolley 225 6444, Doreen Wood 278 2972.

Leeds Oxfam Group

Lively group campaigning on issues of interest to everyone concerned about global justice.

Panel discussion planned on importance of international aid. Volunteers needed to fill interesting roles. Details:

www.oxfamleeds.org.uk/, or Facebook

FORTNIGHTLY AUCTIONS Tuesdays from 5.30pm

Viewing Mon: 10am - 4pm Tues: 11am - 5:30pm

Stamps, Fine China, Antiques, Militaria, Silverware, Jewellery & Furniture House clearances undertaken Gold & silver items wanted

Valuations - call Mark: 07593 824 357 www.web-us.at/shelbys-auctioneers

Gordon Mills, Netherfield Road, Guiseley LS20 9PD

40,000 MAGAZINES PER MONTH!

The largest distribution of any lifestyle magazine in North Leeds To advertise 0113 274 8776 info@northleeedslife.co.uk

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7.30pm St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Pk Rd LS8.

moortowncommunitygroup@ hotmail.co.uk, www. moortowncommunitygroup. co.uk

Leeds Probus Club

North Leeds History Group meets Mon, 1 –

Details: www.lps1852.co.uk

for retired professional/ businessmen, meets 2nd Thurs, 10.30am – 12 noon at St Matthew’s Church Meeting Room, Wood Lane LS7 for social gatherings with speakers. Details: 261 1282.

Let’s Go LEEDS! Free,

volunteer run social group organising a variety of events in North Leeds, city centre & around. All ages & friendly people welcome. Details:

www.lets-go-leeds.co.uk

Moortown Community Group works to highlight

matters of interest or contention & aims to improve living in Moortown – e.g.

Moortown in Bloom & campaign to save Yorkshire Bank Sports Field. New members welcome.

Details: 269 5107,

Approved Contractor

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3pm (Oct – April) at Moor Allerton Library. Friendly, informal group. In 2013/14 they will be examining the history of Medieval Britain, with reflections on the modern world. Just £2 incl. refreshments. New members welcome. Details: 225 6405

North Leeds Friendship Centre Friendly group for

retired & over 50s – outings, lunches, ten pin bowling, theatre visits & more. Social afternoons with speakers 2nd Fri, 2pm at Moor Allerton Sports & Social Centre, Stonegate Rd. New members welcome. Details: Eileen 269

0084

North Leeds Model Flying Club New members

very welcome, experienced or beginners. Building or

flying, plenty of friendly advice. Regular meetings at Horsforth or airfield at Almscliff Crag. Details: 217

8348, www.nlmfc.org

Otley & Wharfedale MacMillan Cancer Support Fundraising Group

covers NW Leeds & meets monthly to plan events.

Looking for new members.

Details or to book a speaker: 261 3758/ 01943 467299

Shadwell Horticultural Society welcomes new

members. Membership includes monthly guest speaker starting Thurs 10 Oct with ‘Heirloom Tomatoes’, newsletters, society shop & free entry to annual Flower Show. An opportunity to meet people & access expert advice.

Details: Susan 273 8821

Social Events Club Meals, pub nights,

theatre/film/music, walks, badminton, book group, weekends away, holidays & more. Mainly over 30s.

Monthly new members’ night in North Leeds. Details: 0844

8111025, www.leedsivc. org.uk

Trackrod Motor Club

Meets 1st Tues of each month, 9.30pm at Old Modernians Club, Cookridge Lane. New Members welcome. Details:

www.trackrodmotorclub.co.uk

West Yorkshire Fuchsia Society meets 3rd Wed,

7.30pm Moorside Tenants & Residents Community Centre, St Catherine’s Dr. Bramley, LS13. Find out about growing this delightful flower & exhibiting at gardening shows. Details: Graham

Wheatley (Sec) 256 3055, Sid Tagger (Chair) 268 7868

MUSIC Alwoodley Community Choir meets Wed, 5.45 – 7.15pm downstairs in the Lord Darcy, Harrogate Rd. Friendly group of all ages & abilities, singing pops, standards, shows songs.

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Currently working towards busy pre-Christmas calendar of gigs. New members welcome - why not give them a try? Details: Jean 0785

5059990

Alwoodley Singers

Wanted new members!

Ability to read music preferable but not essential.

Rehearsals Thurs 8 - 10pm at ACA Hall, The Ave, LS17 7NZ.

Details: Alan 294 3370

Guitar for Beginners

Mon 4pm (ages 7-12), 4.45 – 5.45 (13+). £3. Northcall Community Centre, Cranmer Bank LS17. Details: 268

9993

Leeds Guild of Singers

Welcomes new members in all voice groups, especially tenors & basses. Do you sightread? Would you like to sing renaissance & contemporary music in a small friendly choir? Rehearsals Tues 7.30 – 9.30pm at Leeds University.

Details: Liz at secretary@ leedsguildofsingers.org.uk

Leeds Soroptimists’

Musical Evening Tues 8 Oct, 8 – 10pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Otley Rd. LS16.

Featuring The Lawnswood Singers & Bradford Accordion Band. In aid of Kidz in Kampz, Birthing in Gambia & Bulawayo Fund. Tickets (£10 incl. wine & cheese). Details:

Mary Henderson 275 7116

Matinee Band Friendly,

supportive, instrumental group playing eclectic mix of music looking for new members, any instrument.

Reading ability desirable but not essential. Meet Thurs 2 – 3.30pm at Quaker Meeting House, 136 Street Lane LS8. £5 per session. Details:

martinonline@ntlworld.com

Phoenix Concert Band

Community concert band for players of Grade 6 standard & over. Rehearsals Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm at The Grammar School at Leeds, Tebb Room in music department. To join or book the band for a concert

visit www.phoenixband. co.uk or email: secretary@ phoenixband.co.uk

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Players for Pleasure

offers playing opportunities to adult amateur musicians.

All levels, beginners to advanced. All instruments & all ages over 18. New performers especially welcome. Friendly, informal & supportive atmosphere. Details: www.

playersforpleasure.co.uk

Roundhay Ukulele Group Meets Wed 8 –

9.30pm (starting again 4 Sept) at Terry Yorath House, 18 Devonshire Close, LS8.

Strum & sing your favourite songs (from Rock to Pop) on the Ukulele! All abilities welcome. £6 per session.

Details: jen@bighooha.co.uk, www.roundhayukulelegroup. wordpress.com & on facebook

Society of Recorder Players – meets 2nd

& 4th Sat pm in Bingley & Headingley. Different conductors take each meeting. Intermediate players, all recorders. New members welcome. Details:

Caroline 01943 467348

Singing to Raise Funds

Fairfax Singers will bring some lovely music to help raise much needed funds for your charity. Details: 01274

597024, 01943 877464 www.fairfaxsingers.org.uk

West Riding Opera

has vacancies for chorus members to participate in concerts & staged opera selections. All voice ranges welcome, no audition.

Details: 01274 595978, davewb8@sky.com

The White Rosettes

Female barbershop chorus (four part unaccompanied harmony), 12 x national champions, rehearse Wed 7.30 – 10pm at Moorlands School, Foxhill Dr, Weetwood Lane, LS16. Details: Jan

Spencer 07852 210640, membership@whiterosettes. org.uk

Yorkshire Late Starter Strings (YLSS) rehearse

Sat, 10am – 12.30pm.

Friendly, informal string

orchestra made up of adult learners who play a stringed instrument. Players of all abilities welcome. Specific beginners group for those especially new to playing.

Details: www.ylss.org

Yorkshire Clarinet Ensemble Rehearses alt

Wed, 8 – 9.45pm (term time) at HEART, Bennett Rd, Headingley. For players of Grade 5+ standard. New players welcome. Details:

U3A Leeds is a friendly, lively organisation for anyone no longer in full time work.

Over 20 special interest groups & fortnightly talks on various topics, held at Moor Allerton Sports & Social Club.

Details: 07552 448834, www.u3aleeds.org.uk

SPIRITUAL Christian Science Church Sunday Services

SENIORS

& Sunday School 11am.

Testimony Meeting 1st Wed 8pm. Devonshire Ave. (next to Texaco petrol station) off Street Lane LS8. Bible based, Everyone welcome.

Chapel Allerton Town St Lunch Club Tues 12.15

The Fourth Way of G.I. Gurdjieff 7.30pm at

Deborah Pennington 07910 414586, mpenn.dpenn@ ntlworld.com

– 1.45pm in the Methodist Centre. Hot Meal £4, friendship & chat. Transport can be provided. Volunteers welcome. Details: Vivienne

& Paul 268 2513, Jenny & David 266 1502, or paul_ chaplin@hotmail.com

Leeds & Bradford Friendship Group meets

1st Wed of month, 1.30pm at Pudsey Civic Hall LS28 5TA. Speaker or entertainment at 2pm. Friendship & activities for people of retirement age. Days out, dining, walks, computers, etc. New members welcome. Details:

258 5955 or 267 5657

Lunch Club & Over 55s Club Wed 12 – 3pm. Two

course meal £3.50 followed by fun activities. Northcall Community Centre, Cranmer Bank, Leeds LS17. Details:

268 9993

Roundhay Tea & Chat Club Tues 1.45 – 3.30pm

at Terry Yorath House, Devonshire Ave. Club for over 70s who would like to make new friends & take part in wide range of activities. £1.

Details: Carole 269 6632

Stainbeck URC Lunch Club Stainbeck Rd. Mon &

Wed, 11am – 1.30pm (£4).

Meal, friendship, gentle exercise. Transport provided.

Volunteers welcome. Details:

Avril or Brian 293 5847, Angela 225 3766, www. stainbeck.urc.org.uk

Friends Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Free.

All Welcome. Details: 07581

080667, rb@gurdjieff-leeds. com, www.gurdjieff-leeds. com

Free Group Meditation

Sun 7- 8pm (ex 3rd Sun: 6.30-7.30pm). Experience peace & calm with guided meditations. Brahma Kumaris, West Park. Details:

275 7727, leeds@uk.bkwsu. org, www.bkwsu.org/uk/ leeds

Hare Krishna Programme Tues

7 – 8.30pm at Cardigan Centre, 145 Cardigan Rd. LS6. Mantra Meditation, Kirtana Yoga, Enchanting Music, Ecstatic Dancing, Discourses on Bhagavad Gita & Great Vegetarian Food.

Everyone welcome. Free.

Details: 07726 688778, gouranga108@gmail.om

Kagyu Buddhist Group

Tues, 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Dropin meditation class practising calm-abiding, reflective meditation suitable for all. £4. Details: 01282 841570,

yorkshire@dechen.org, www. dechen.org

Learn to meditate

FWBO Leeds Buddhist Centre. A contemporary approach to meditation, mindfulness & the Buddhist tradition. Also classes in

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Details: 244 5256, www. leedsbuddhistcentre.org

Leeds Theosophical Society Sun 6 Oct: lecture

& experiential workshop with Christian Bodhi ‘How to Achieve Spiritual Transformation & Initiation’.

Sun 20 Oct: Ruby Tovet on ‘The Ways of Wisdom’. Deep insights into Theosophical thought . 2.30pm, 12 Queen Sq. LS2. Free. Details: www.

ts-leeds.org.uk

Moortown Baptist Church 204 King Lane,

LS17. Sunday services 10.30am & 6pm. Range of toddler, children’s, youth, house groups & senior projects run through week.

Details: 269 3750, www. moortownbaptistchurch. org.uk

Natural Healing Centre

Healing offered Thurs by members of NFSH The Healing Trust. 7pm - 8.30pm at The Friend’s Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay, Leeds LS8.

Weekly Buddhist Meditation Classes 7.30

- 9.30pm in Oakwood (Tue), Leeds City Centre (Wed) & Horsforth (Thur). Day & half day courses in Oakwood (5 Oct) & an urban retreat (19 Oct). Details: 265 2118,

info@meditationinleeds.org www.meditationinleeds.org

SUPPORT Arthritis Care Leeds

meets 3rd Tues of each month, 7.30 – 9pm, St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley. New members welcome. Details: Pat 275

7694

Association of Blind Asians Leeds is looking for

volunteers who could provide a valuable sighted guiding service to reduce isolation & increase independence of visually impaired people in Leeds. Details: Sonal 210

3347

Charlie’s Angel Centre support for those who have lost babies. Details:

Details: 07949 972690, www.leedshealingcentre.org

charliesangelcentre@hotmail. com, @charlie29122012, www.charlies-angel-centre. org.uk

Roundhay Evangelical Church Sun 10.30am

Crohn’s & Colitis UK Support for people with

& 6.30pm at Roundhay Parochial Hall, Fitzroy Dr (near Oakwood Clock). Friendly, informal & bible centred. All welcome. Details: www.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) & their families in North & West Yorkshire.

Regular meetings. Details:

St John’s Church, Moortown Sunday Services

IBS Leeds Friendly,

roundhayevangelicalchurch. com

0845 130 6809, Leeds@ crohnsandcolitis.org.uk, www. groups.crohnsandcolitis.org. uk/Leeds informal meetings for fellow sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Details:

8am, 10am & 6.30pm at the junction of Harrogate Rd & Ring Rd, LS17 7BZ. Everyone welcome. Details: www.

matt@letscureibs.com

Stillness Group Every

meets Fri 18 Oct, 7.30pm at The Yorkshire Crust, 252 Tinshill Rd, LS16, for a gluten-free meal. Details:

stjohnsmoorallerton.org

Mon at Friends’ Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay LS8. Based on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now & A New Earth.

Spend time in stillness with like minded friends. Details:

Sally 07884 332644, www. peacenowhere.com

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Leeds Coeliac Group

Sandra McLean 07711 768 850, sandra.mclean@ btinternet.com

Leeds Samaritans

Confidential, nonjudgemental support 24 hours a day for people experiencing feelings of

distress or despair. They listen with an open mind & in complete confidence, for as long as you need. Details: 245

6789, 08457 909090

Leeds Weekend Care Association (LWCA)

provides respite care to families with children who have complex care needs via weekend playgroups, trips for teens & one-to-one home based care. Looking for people to volunteer to join their Management Committee as Trustees.

Details: 216 5133, angela. roberts@lwca.co.uk

Quaker Friends Meeting House, Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Visitors welcome, first visit free. Details: info@

leedsastronomy.org.uk, www. leedsastronomy.org.uk

MICA (Meetings in Chapel Allerton) First

Wed of month – interesting, inspiring & motivational talks in the area of personal development, providing you with ideas to apply to your daily life & help motivate you.

Details: mikefm100@gmail. com

WOMEN’S GROUPS

The Owls New citywide

Chapel Pie WI Friendly,

228 8509

Details: chapelpiewi@gmail. com, www.chapelpiewi.com, Facebook at Chapel Pie WI.

informal child minding group offering support, training & information, & social events.

Membership £5 pa. Details:

Parkinson’s UK Leeds meet

2nd Wed, 2pm at St Chad ‘s Parish Centre, Headingley.

Support for anybody affected

by Parkinson’s. Exercise classes in Otley, Horsforth, Moortown. Details: Linda

Thompson, 01943 461640

Wharfedale General Hospital Cardiac Club

(affiliated with British Heart Foundation) is open to former cardiac patients & their partners. Opportunity to take part in exercise classes under supervision of qualified instructors. Meets Mon, Wed & Thurs at Wharfedale General Hospital. £3. Details:

Clive Wilkinson 267 1721

The Marigold Wellbeing Centre (formerly Yorkshire Cancer Help Centre) is at the Day Therapy Centre, St Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate, two Saturdays a month. Support for people with cancer & other chronic conditions. Details: Karen

01937 573166, or John & Ann 274 9074. www. marigoldwellbeingcentre. org.uk

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Leeds Astronomical Society meets 2nd Wed

of month with a guest speaker presentation & regular telescope nights at

fun women’s group for all ages. Visitors welcome (£3).

Annual membership £33.

Darling Roses WI 28 Sept: Mina Said-Allsopp on the Life of a Forager, followed by Pickling & Chutney Making, plus talk on Podiatry. Details: Debbie 07970 617937, debbie@darlingroseswi.org

Methodist Women’s Luncheon Club (Leeds

& District) Welcomes new members to their monthly meetings at Devonshire Hall, Headingley on 2nd Wed of each month. Good food & excellent speakers! Details:

Shirley 257 9381.

Roundhay WI meets 2nd

Thurs each month, 7.15pm at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Shaftesbury Avenue LS8.

A modern voice for today’s woman. Details: 266 5648

Leeds Soroptimist Club

Musical Evening Tues 8 Oct, 8pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Otley Rd LS16.

Featuring the Lawnswood singers & Bradford accordion band. In aid of club charities.

Tickets £10 (incl. wine & cheese). Details: Mary

Henderson 265 116, maryhenderson@btinternet. com

Soroptimist International Meet 2nd

Mon, 7pm at Weetwood Hall.

All ladies welcome. Details:

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coaches, competitive & friendly play, fun tournaments. Details: John

welcome. Details: Raegan saintraegan@yahoo.co.uk, Sam mumba40@gmail.com

& 4th Mon, 7.45pm Farsley Library, Old Rd, Farsley, LS28. A friendly environment in which to improve your speaking skills. Details:

Youth Club Mon in term

Gledhow Elfins Children’s Activity Group meets Tues 6.15 –

YOUNGER LIFE

Details: 393 0600, www. interact.uk.net

www.sigbi.org/leeds

White Rose Ladies Speakers Club meets 2nd

Pauline Neale, 269 3542, pauline.neale@ntlworld.com, www.the-asc.org.uk

Leeds Children’s Circus

Tues 5.45 – 6.45pm under 10s; 7 – 8pm over 10s.

Adults 1st & 3rd Tues 8pm at Harehills Lane Baptist Church, Hilton Place LS8 4HF Details: info@

leedschildrenscircus.org.uk www.leedschildrenscircus. org.uk

Leeds Junior Chess Club Meets Sun 5.30

– 7.30pm at Alwoodley Community Centre, The Avenue, Alwoodley. Ideal for ages 7-18 of all standards.

Coaching from accredited

Hipshon 226 7759, www. leedsjuniorchess.org.uk

time. Ages 8 – 12: 7 – 8.30pm; ages 13+: 7 – 9pm.

Stainbeck Church, Stainbeck Rd. LS7. Games, crafts, table tennis, pool, PS3, Wii, events.

7th Moor Allerton Brownies Seek New

Members A number of Brownies have gone up to Guides so the group has places available.

They meet Mon in LS17 from 6 – 7.15pm. Details:

7thmoorallertonbrownies@ gmail.com

Parent & Tots Group

Tues (term time) 1.30-3pm Queens Hall, Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 294 Harrogate Rd, Moortown. £2 per family, incl. drink & snack. Everyone

gledhowleeds@woodcraft. org.uk

MISC / EVENTS Ceilidh at Seven Arts Chapel Allerton Sun 29

Sept, 8pm. Live music and a caller to show you the moves! £5

Don’t Act Your Age A social improvisation drama group for the over 50s meets at Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd, Chapel Allerton on Tues

At Emmaus, the Secondhand Household Item Superstore

Beds & Sofas

Café

266 7722

Evening of Clairvoyance

7.15pm at Gledhow Primary School. Outdoor & indoor fun for 6 – 9 year olds, including nature walks, scavenger hunts, craft activities & physical games, often with topical themes. £1 per week.

Part of the Woodcraft Folk movement www.woodcraft. org.uk Details: Helen

GRAB A BARGAIN...

10.45am – 12.45pm. All welcome. Details: Ron Wiener

Wed 13 Nov, 7.30pm at Muirs Court, Sagar Place, St Michael’s Lane, Headingley.

With top psychics Julie & Adrian Clarke. Tickets £12.50 (incl. refreshments) Proceeds to PDSA. Details: Melissa

224 9720

Hope Pastures Horse & Donkey Sanctuary

Weetwood Lane, LS16.

Visitors welcome 10am – 2.45pm. Free admission.

Donations welcome. Details:

261 4344 For events & pony days visit www.hopepastures. org

Oakwood Traders & Residents Association

(OTRA) Public Meeting Tues 8 Oct, 6pm in the Parochial Hall. Another opportunity to express your views on any aspect of Oakwood & what you would like to see happening to improve it.

Large selection of used quality furniture; sofas, beds, tables, chairs, wardrobes, drawers etc.

We also sell clothing, bric-a-bric, books and small electricals. All at great prices, with a cafe and a FREE CAR PARK! Delivery £10 to all Leeds Postcodes

Clothing

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Emmaus Leeds is a charity providing a home and work in a community setting for previously homeless people.

Please help us by giving your unwanted good quality household items.

FREE CONVENIENT COLLECTION SERVICE.

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www.emmaus.org.uk/leeds info@emmausleeds.co.uk

St. Mary’s Street, Leeds LS9 7DP (Between Mabgate and Burmantoffs) Open Monday-Saturday 9am – 4.45pm Tel: 0113 248 4288 Leeds Kirkgate Market Stall Between Row F & G Open Monday - Saturday 9am – 5pm

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