North Leeds Life Magazine. February 2015 edition. LS6 LS16 LS18

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DEAR READERS,

CONNECTING YOU TO THE COMMUNITY SINCE 2005

The new year has burst onto the scene, with absolutely loads happening on the theatre and dance front – from great amateur productions to exciting premieres.

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There’s also a lot going on in our various communities – OPAL is hoping to buy the Bedford Arms in Cookridge; Horsforth is getting close to being declared a FairTrade Town; Headingley Neighbourhood Plan is progressing; Adel Neighbourhood Forum sets out key policies; and Meanwood puts the finishing touches to the Meanwood Memorial Project.

We have a super selection of

activities for Half Term (including a temporary skate park in LeftBank!).

We urge you to give The Food Academy at Leeds City College a try – it’s well worth it. And there’s some great music to take in – from jazz, blues, folk and Irish to dark gypsy cabaret.

We hope you enjoy reading it all!

Please get all your news and notices for March to us as soon as possible (1st Feb editorial/ 9th Feb advertising). We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Carole, Jack and the team.

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Northern Ballet Opens Season with Romeo & Juliet This is the UK Première of

choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot’s, (Les Ballets de Monte Carlo), production.

Half Term is Shaping Up to be an Interesting Week Great shows, dissecting hearts and a mobile skate park, what more could you ask for!

14 Headingley LitFest – It’s ‘Something Else’!

The eighth Headingley LitFest, begins in early March, with poet Lemn Sissay and historian Juliet Barker headlining.

18 Wave… Five Years On Jo Lee’s ‘Wave’, which includes a hundred cast hands cradling old photographs, breathes again at The Bowery.

32 The Meanwood Men Memorial Project Features 48 new trees in Meanwood Park, a book and a plaque listing the men’s names on the War Memorial.

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Dr Kevin Grady, Director of Leeds Civic Trust, has once again lined up a fascinating series of free, half hour lunchtime lectures from Wednesday 4th– 25th February, 1.15pm at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1.

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4 February: ‘Ralph Thoresby and Kirkgate’.

A celebration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, his topographical and historical survey of Leeds.

11 Fe b r u a r y: ‘The Genteelest Situations’. The creation of Park Square and the Park Estate. The fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Wilson family’s attempt to create one of the country’s highest quality Georgian residential estates in the style of Edinburgh New Town, Bath and Bloomsbury.

18 February: ‘A Stranger’s Guide to Leeds in 1830. A Tardis-type Tour Through Time’.

Using a profusion of contemporary illustrations, Dr Grady will guide you around the streets and buildings of Leeds, while introducing you to leading personalities of the time and

Enjoy half an hour of the fascinating history of Leeds

issues of the day.

25 February: ‘A City Transformed 1965-2015’. Leeds Civic Trust and 50 Years of Change in Leeds - looking at the remarkable changes in Leeds over the last halfcentury and the part that Leeds Civic Trust, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has played in influencing that change.

“One of Leeds Civic Trust’s key roles is to promote interest in Leeds’ history and heritage”, said Dr Kevin Grady. “I aim to tempt city centre workers out of their offices to Holy Trinity Church at lunchtime to enjoy half an hour of the fascinating history of Leeds. The attendances at the lectures in the last few years have been astonishing.”

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IVY BENSON (1913-1993) AND HER ALL GIRLS BAND

Leeds girl Ivy Benson topped the bill in the 1930s and 40s as a jazz saxophonist and leader of a talented, glamorous all girls band, beating off prejudice and competition from the many famous male dance bands of the time. She reached a peak of popularity in the Second World War, when she and her Girls toured the country and broadcast daily on the radio – everybody tuned in then – bringing rhythm and song, some joy, fun, and the promise of happier times, to people at home and the troops overseas. vy was born in 1913 in her grandparents’ pub, the Malt Shovel, in Lowerhead Row (now the Headrow), near the corner with Vicar Lane. Her father Douglas, ‘Digger’ Benson, worked originally as a riveter but doubled as a musician, playing trombone in the pit at the Empire theatre on Briggate. He was later to run his own dance bands in Leeds. When Ivy was six, the family moved to 59 Cemetery Road, Beeston (now with a blue plaque) and she went to the local school, St Luke’s. From the start her father had musical ambitions for her – she had piano lessons from age five, and he taught her the clarinet and the trombone.

She was a born performer: aged nine, she featured in an early Children’s Hour radio programme playing ‘In a Persian Market’, and in 1923 she won a talent contest at the Empire singing the latest hit ‘Yes, we have no bananas!’ When she acquired a Benny Goodman record, she fell in love with jazz and was inspired to take up the clarinet and later the saxophone – mostly regarded then as for men only!

She won a scholarship to the Leeds College of Art when she left school at 14, but money was short.

So she went to work at Montague Burton’s huge factory in Hudson Road, Burmantofts, at 15 shillings

a week, and saved up for her first alto sax. She worked from 8 until 6, then played at dances most nights from 8 until 2 or 3 am – dancing was all the rage. In the end it was too much and she left the factory. She joined the Leeds-based ‘Rhythm Girls’ band and worked with them and other groups until, at 23, she got a chance to go to London where she found a job in a sleazy night club.

There she was spotted by the bandleader Teddy Joyce, and toured with his band ‘the Girlfriends’ as a featured soloist – ‘the ace saxophonist of Great Britain’.

When war began, with many male musicians leaving for the Front, she formed her own all girls band. The band won an audition for a popular touring revue, ‘Radio Rodeo’ starring Hylda Baker, and then, with the help of the impresario Jack Hylton, was booked into Covent Garden, which had been converted into a ballroom.

In 1943 (to protests from male musicians) they got the coveted job of BBC house band, based in Bristol, broadcasting at all hours of the night and day to the troops as well as to home audiences. In 1944 Ivy’s band topped the bill at the London Palladium for six months, and at the end of the war was personally invited by Field Marshal Montgomery to fly to Berlin to join the victory celebrations. Tours with ENSA followed all over Western Europe, while at home they starred in shows around the country and at Butlin’s holiday camps.

Ivy and her girls offered a sensational combination of musicianship and glamour. Her girls had to play brilliantly and look like film-stars. They worked hard and played hard: she had a constant turnover of band members who left to get married. Recruiting often from Northern brass bands, she gave many women the chance of an exciting life as professional musicians.

Her own personal life was less successful – her two marriages ended in divorce, without children. She went on fronting her band into the 1970s, but the big band era was over. She lived with her father for many

years but after his death in 1977 she retired to Clacton-on-Sea, where she used to entertain holidaymakers by playing the electronic organ. She died in 1993.

Over the years there have been several radio and TV interviews and programmes about her, the latest just a few months ago. And there are still people who remember hearing her and her band, with their signature tune ‘Lady be good’, playing wonderful music which had the power to lift the spirits even in the darkest times.

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Ever since the Cistercian monks at Kirkstall Abbey began rearing sheep and selling their fleeces to European merchants, wool has played a vital role in the story of Leeds. Whilst wool and its products made Leeds wealthy, it also gave the city a Nobel prize winning scientific team whose legacy went far beyond the textile industries of West Yorkshire. n 1938, a young scientist called Archer Martin arrived in Leeds to work at the Wool Industries Research Association (WIRA), based in a Victorian house called ‘Torridon’ on Headingley Lane.

WIRA was one of several research associations whose aim was to maintain the UK’s competitive edge against foreign rivals such Germany and the USA by improving industrial output through the application of basic science.

Martin was fascinated by chemistry and whilst still a boy had built his own distillation apparatus from a stack of coffee tins filled with coke. It was this technical skill which enabled him, in 1941, together with his colleague Richard Synge, to develop a laboratory technique which allowed the precise analysis of the basic chemical building blocks that made up the protein fibres in wool.

Known as partition chromatography, Martin and

Pictured: Archer Martin

These developments enabled scientists in the 1970s to produce human insulin from genetically modified bacteria

Pictured: Richard Synge

Synge’s method went on to become an essential tool in biochemistry and, although initially developed for the chemical analysis of wool fibres, its impact was felt far beyond the world of textiles. Using this method, the US biochemist Erwin Chargaff was able to analyse the chemical composition of DNA, the molecule of heredity, whilst the Cambridge biochemist Fred Sanger was able to unravel the entire chemical make-up of the hormone insulin. Both of these developments enabled scientists

in the 1970s to produce human insulin from genetically modified bacteria - which has since been of immense benefit to millions of patients with diabetes.

In recognition of their achievements, Martin and Synge were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for chemistry and although the original Victorian house in which they once worked has long since been demolished, leaving only a solitary gatepost bearing the name ‘Torridon’ the impact of their work on biology and medicine will always stand as a lasting memorial to them.

-Dr. Kersten Hall, Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds

The author will be giving a talk and signing copies of his recent book ‘The Man in the Monkeynut Coat’ which tells the story of pioneering Leeds scientist William Astbury and his long neglected role in the story of DNA, at Blackwells bookshop on Woodhouse Lane on Thur 26th February at 6pm.

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A Little Taste of Yorkshire

On Saturday 14th February, Zodwa Nyoni will see her first play ‘Boi Boi is Dead’ come alive in The Courtyard Theatre, at West Yorkshire Playhouse. his is the culmination of three years’ work, started when Zodwa was still studying at Leeds University.

Born in Zimbabwe, she grew up in both countries as her father pursued his studies in Leeds, returned to Zimbabwe, and came back again to Leeds.

jazz legend, father, lover, playboy, husband, rule-breaker, enigmatic force of nature Boi Boi, who is dead, but not forgotten, and explores the traditions and tensions of modern Zimbabwe through the eyes of a young Yorkshire writer.

While still a student, Alex Chisholm, then the Playhouse’s Associate Director (Literary), put Zodwa forward for the Channel4 Writer in Residence Award, which she went on to win soon after achieving her MA in

when Boi Boi’s reckless ex-wife Stella and traditionalistic brother show up to stake their claim on his name, his

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Tickets are already on sale for the eighth Headingley LitFest, which begins in early March, and lasts until the end of the month. The theme this year is ‘Something Else’. enowned poet Lemn Sissay, and historian Juliet Barker will be headlining a diverse programme, which includes new work, book launches, and contributions from local writers and performers.

“We are ecstatic that Lemn Sissay has agreed to come to Headingley”, said LitFest Secretary Richard Wilcocks.

“He will appear on Friday 20th March at Leeds City Academy in Woodhouse. Students from several schools will share the stage, but the show is open to all.

He’s a terrific performer!”

Lemn is author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays. He adapted Benjamin Zaphaniah’s ‘Refugee Boy’, a great hit, for West Yorkshire Playhouse last year and was an official poet for the London Olympics.

Juliet Barker will introduce ‘England Arise!’ at Headingley Library on Monday 16th March.

In her most recent book, she turns her attention to the Summer of 1381, when England erupted in the ‘Peasant’s Revolt’. There was a call for the abolition of serfdom, freedom from tolls and taxes, the right for men to choose who they worked for and, perhaps most revolutionary of all, for the seizure of the Church’s wealth and property.

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Poet Jo Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award. She will read at HEART on Thursday 12th March, alongside Yorkshire poet Colin Speakman.

Nicolette Jones has been children’s book reviewer for the Sunday Times for twenty-one years. Brought up in Headingley, she will be offering expert advice at Headingley Library at 3pm on Saturday 7th March, and talking about what it was like to work with Raymond Briggs.

Red Ladder Theatre will be at the New Headingley Club on Saturday 7th March with a selection of songs from

Pictured: Lemn Sissay

their play about the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike ‘We’re Not Going Back’, and writer Boff Whalley will talk about how it was created.

New books to be discussed include Dr Jefffrey Sherwin’s ‘British Surrealism’, Sean Stowell’s ‘The King’s Psychic’ and a number of crime novels grouped under the heading ‘Yorkshire Noir’. Richard Wilcocks will retell some of the stories in his ‘Stories from the War Hospital’ at the Leeds Library.

Theatre of the Dales will present a ‘Beckett Trilogy’ centred around ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, and Trio Literati will perform a show on the theme of ‘Censorship’.

Broadcaster Ray Brown will present ‘The Yerney Project’, a staged radio play written and directed by him, and commissioned by the LitFest.

Inspired by a classic Slovene novel, it is set in nineteenth century Slovenia and will be at the New Headingley Club on Saturday 14th March.

Tickets available on the door, from 0113 2745 4548, or from HEART, Bennett Road, Headingley

For the latest information and programme, visit www. headingleylitfest.org.uk or www. headingleylitfest.blogspot.com

he theatre group Leeds Arts Centre is staging Diane Samuels’ ‘Kindertransport’ at the Carriageworks from Thursday 5th – Saturday 7th February.

The play, directed by Rachel Vernelle, tells the story of the thousands of Jewish children who fled to Britain shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Eva, aged nine, is one of these, travelling alone to England to find sanctuary. Years later, she has become Evelyn, the archetypal middleclass Englishwoman, who has eschewed everything about her early life.But her daughter uncovers her secret and we see

The play tells the story of the thousands of Jewish children who fled to Britain

what denying her background and culture has done to Evelyn.

It promises to be a fascinating

show. During rehearsals, Rachel Vernelle arranged for the cast to meet Martin Kapel, a member of the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association, who brought home the desperation and upheaval of that time as families and friendships were torn apart, as well as the emotional and psychological fallout that followed. ‘Kindertransport’ explores the challenges and difficulties faced by many of children that moved to Britain.

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Northern Ballet opens its Spring 2015 season with the UK Première of JeanChristophe Maillot’s, (Les Ballets de Monte Carlo), production of Romeo & Juliet at Leeds Grand Theatre from 4th – 12th March. et to P ro ko f i ev ’s unforgettable score, played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, Romeo & Juliet is choreographed

by Jean-Christophe Maillot.

His interpretation captures the essence of what it means to be young and in love, and tells of the devastating tragedy that unfolds when tenderness and naivety is met with violence and pride. This is Northern Ballet’s first collaboration with Maillot and the first time that this production of Romeo & Juliet has been performed in the UK.

This is an inspired contemporary response to the classic play

“I have chosen to add Jean-Christophe Maillot’s interpretation of Romeo & Juliet to our repertoire as it is an inspired contemporary response to the classic play”, said David Nixon, Northern Ballet’s Artistic Director. “I was also looking for a production that would provide a complete contrast and different point of view for our audience and artists from our present signature production of Christopher Gable, Massimo Moricone

and Lez Brotherston’s Romeo & Juliet. We will not be losing this version from our repertoire but will be offering a new interpretation for our audiences to experience and to reflect upon. I am honoured to be the first British company to present Jean-Christophe Maillot’s work.”

Visit www.northernballet.com for more information.

athak dancers Kaleel Anwar and Pranav Yajnik, city professionals by day, perform in Akademi’s Navodit at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton on Friday 6th February, 7.30pm.

Kathak is a style renowned for its intricate rhythms and fluidity

Donning their angarkhas, lawyers Kaleel and Pranav escape the stress of business on the dance floor every evening. This is an opportunity to see the traditional Indian style of Kathak performed powerfully by an all male cast.

Kathak is a style renowned for its intricate rhythms and fluidity.

Traditionally, Indian dance is performed by girls. However, these rising contemporary stars have broken moulds, finding a balance between their jobs and artistic careers, and coming together to create a production truly rare for a dance stage.

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Five years ago artist Jo Lee was commissioned by East Street Arts and funded by Leeds City Council to produce a piece of work to celebrate the elderly residents of the city.

The outcome was Wave – a mixed media installation that includes a hundred cast hands cradling old photographic memories. Jo worked with three care homes – Headingley Hall, Donisthorpe Hall and Carr Croft – to involve the residents, carers and their families in the creation of a work that explores the preservation of memories and challenges our perception of the elderly. Originally exhibited at Leeds City Museum it was also shown at Leeds Civic Hall, Leeds Art Library, Leeds University and Donisthorpe Hall. ive years on, Wave breathes again at The Bowery in Headingley. For this new showing Jo has added a further dimension to the work in the form of audio recordings of recent interviews with some of the original participants, played over a visual loop of photos. The voices reflect on the process of ageing and the experience of change. These include the thoughts of the oldest and youngest participants.

Calum was a three-month-old babe in arms when his hand was cast but here tells us how being five is great as he now goes to school and makes potions for dragons! Meanwhile, Ann, who had already had her telegram from the Queen five years ago, expresses her mixed feelings about living to be 106.

Jo sees Ann as a truly inspirational woman. “I am in awe of her”, she said. “She still lives independently, is sharper than most people half her age and is a seriously stylish woman. It has been an absolute privilege getting to work with her and all the other people who have shared

Ann has mixed feelings about living to be 106!

Pictured: Ann, Calum and Jo Lee

their memories and perceptions of the journey of life. The passing of time since the last showing of the work has also, inevitably, meant that some of those involved are sadly no longer with us. But the work is one way of maintaining a loving memory of all these wonderful people.”

Wave is on show at The Bowery until 20 March. Jo is holding a ‘Tea and Gingers’ afternoon 4-6pm on Saturday 24th January where people are invited to contribute their thoughts on Wave, ageing, memories and mortality through either written or audio contributions.

Since Wave, Jo has had a busy five years. As well as gaining her teaching qualification and running workshops, she has exhibited at the Potteries Museum in Stoke and various galleries and shows around the country.

She has also created a ceramic menagerie of crazy inventions named Tribods, BabyDogs and EyeBalls. For further information, visit www.jolee.uk.com or follow her on Twitter @joleeworld.

ed Ladder Theatre recently announced that Tessa Gordziejko was taking over as the chair of its board when Bernard Atha CBE retires from the post, after more than 30 years at the helm.

Tessa is Creative Director at Imove Arts, as well as a freelance producer, consultant and writer.

She was Creative Programmer for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in Yorkshire and a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme 2005-7. Her early career includes working with radical theatre companies such as Monstrous Regiment and Half Moon Theatre (London). She also

worked for Red Ladder in 1986, as Company Manager for the tour of Back to the Walls.

“I’m inspired and honoured to take on the role of Chair of Red Ladder in this time of change, and also of great opportunity for the company”, said Tessa. “My career has thrived on challenges, and I look forward to working with the Board to build a strong future for the company outside the Arts Council’s National Portfolio. I share the company’s passion for taking radical performance about big, important issues to new audiences. Never has Red Ladder been more needed than now and I intend to play a part in ensuring the company not only survives, but thrives.”

“We are very sad to see Bernard go. Not just Red Ladder, but Leeds’ cultural and artistic landscape owes so much to this man”, said Rod Dixon, Artistic Director of Red Ladder. “As we transition out of NPO funding, with the highest profile and strongest body of work we’ve had under my eight years as Artistic Director, this

is set to be a new and exciting phase for the company. Tessa is a perfect match for us in many ways, and her dedication and enthusiasm is truly inspiring. The skills she is able to bring to the board are very welcome at this point in our development.”

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hoenix Dance Theatre’s Mixed Programme 2015 features a double bill by Christopher Bruce, one of the most influential figures in world dance. It includes ‘Shadows’, a brand new work created especially for Phoenix Dance Theatre, and is a restaging of ‘Shift’, his energetic study of life in the 1940s. Having choreographed works for leading dance companies across the globe, this is the first time that Phoenix Dance Theatre will perform any of this renowned choreographer’s work.

The programme also features two world premieres

The programme also features two world premieres. Phoenix Artistic Director Sharon Watson follows up her audience favourites ‘Melt’ (2011) and ‘Repetition of Change’ (2013) with ‘TearFall’, a new work that builds on her exploration of science through dance using her mesmerizing, athletic choreographic style.

The fourth piece is ‘Bloom’ by exciting New Adventures Choreographer Award winner Caroline Finn, whose work often presents darkly comic expressions of life and humanity in a playful, quirky and highly engaging choreographic style. www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk

STARS, the awardwinning local theatre group, is busy rehearsing for its annual pantomime.

This year it’s Aladdin, with performances on Thursday 19th (7.30pm), Friday 20th (7.30pm), Saturday 21st (2 & 7pm), and Sunday 22nd February (7pm) at Adel & Ireland Wood Community Centre.

Pictured: Chris Binns Chairman

Once again, the pantomime features STARS’ younger section, Starburst, and as expected the show is packed with the usual ingredients of comedy and laughter, songs and audience involvement.

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“It’s been a very busy New Year with a hectic schedule of rehearsals”, said STARS Chairman, Chris Binns. “It’s great to work with our younger section, StarBurst, alongside STARS’ more experienced members.

We are proud to have such enthusiastic, talented youngsters. It promises to be another very popular panto!”

Tickets (£7.50/ £6) are available from 0113 293 9596, tickets@starsleeds. co.uk or www.starsleeds. co.uk

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he first year of a new Community Engagement Project at Opera North has been an unqualified success. Since the programme began there have been more than 2,480 attendances, and a further 774 attendances at special taster performances and workshops.

A total of 72 different community groups in Leeds have become members of the scheme and enjoyed free or subsidised tickets to performances, including operas like La Bohème, La Traviata and The Coronation of

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A total of 72 different community groups in Leeds have become members of the scheme

Poppea. Members also attended 23 events in the Howard Assembly Room, ranging from classical recitals to jazz, world music, talks and film screenings.

The aim of the project, which is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is to strengthen Opera North’s relationship with local communities and open up opera to a wider audience. The programme builds on Opera North’s strong track record in attracting ‘first-timers’ to the opera, with over 50% of

attendees at La Bohème in 2014 being new audience members.

Initiatives have been put in place to tackle any barriers preventing groups from engaging with the company’s work, and taster performances and workshops are taking opera out into local communities.

“Our constant aim is to fully engage with the many diverse communities here”, said Richard Mantle, General Director, Opera North. “I am delighted that in the first year of this project we have already seen significant numbers of people building a new relationship with the Company and our work. There is a very special atmosphere in the theatre when we have lots of new audience members - their pleasure in experiencing live opera for the very first time is palpable.”

rom 6th February – 5th July, The Hepworth Wakefield will present work by Greek-American artist and feminist icon Lynda Benglis. This will be the largest presentation of Benglis’ work in the UK, featuring approximately 50 works spanning her entire career.

Born in 1941 in Louisiana, Lynda is one of America’s most significant living artists. She was heralded as the ‘heir to Pollock’ by Life magazine in 1970, and is part of a generation of artists who forged new approaches to sculpture and painting in the wake of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art. She became famous not only for her radical re-envisioning of sculpture and painting using wax and poured latex, but also for her works dealing with feminist politics and self-image.

This exhibition explores the breadth of Benglis’ work, highlighting her desire to challenge the traditions of sculpture and painting, and exploring the physical dialogue between work and viewer.

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Leeds Town Red Ladder Theatre Company brings a new musical comedy to City Varieties from 19th – 21st February.

Written by ex-Chumbawamba guitarist and writer Boff Whalley, and directed by Red Ladder’s Artistic Director Rod Dixon, ‘We’re Not Going Back’ looks at the 1984/85 miners’ strike through the eyes of three headstrong sisters in a South Yorkshire pit village.

The musical was commissioned by the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside regions of Unite the Union, and is performed by Victoria Brazier, Claire Marie Seddon and Stacey Sampson as Olive, Mary and Isabel – hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of Women Against Pit Closures.

It’s February1984, and as the rumour mill stirs with developments of impending pit closures, the coal miners’ unions are drawn into a battle of attrition against an unbending government. Forced into poverty, miners and their families become part of a strike that will resonate through the coming decades.

But for many people, the war fought between politicians, police and pickets took a back seat to the fight to hold families, friendships and community together – fought on the battleground of living room and soup kitchen, meeting hall and social club. It was a battle fought with laughter and songs, with kneesups, punch-ups and piss-ups.

“Thirty years ago I was part of a miners’ strike support group in Leeds”, said Boff Whalley. “For me, the strongest part - the heart - of the miners’ strike was the family support, specifically the women.

Despite the strike’s outcome, all the hardship and poverty, the main memory of that year for the women

was of laughter, fun and surprise - a big adventure. How to take on the machinery of the capitalist state; and have a good time doing it. I knew this feeling had to be the underlying belly of the play.”

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It was a battle fought with laughter and songs

Last year, Red Ladder lost £160,000 of Arts Council funding.

So a team of supporters started a campaign to save the UK’s leading radical theatre company.

The #GisATenner campaign is based on the fact that if each Red Ladder Twitter follower gave £10, that would cover the full production budget of one UK tour! To donate, visit www. saveredladder.co.uk

Hall Tours You may think you know the Town Hall and its tower, but there is another hidden, secret side to the building.

This tour gives you the opportunity to stand in the dock where prisoners once stood, sit at the judge’s bench of the Borough Court, descend the stone steps into the dark prison cells below, climb the 203 steps to the top of the clock tower and take in a view of Leeds unlike any other

There is another hidden, secret side to the building Public tours are available on the last Saturday and Monday of the month – Saturdays (10.30am) on 31 Jan, 28 Feb, 28 March, 25 April, 30 May, 27 June, 25 July; and Mondays (2.30pm) on 26 Jan, 23 Feb, 30 March, 27 April, 29 June, 27 July. Advance booking is essential. Tickets (£4.50) are available from 0113 224 3801 or Carriageworks Theatre Box Office in Millennium Square.

You can also book tours for groups of up to 25 people – for further information, call 0113 247 649

here’s an exciting new season of dance and family shows lined up for Spring 2015 at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre at Northern Ballet, Quarry Hill.

All-male dance company 2Faced Dance present the double bill ‘Dreaming In Code’, choreographed by award-winning Tamsin Fitzgerald and Frantic Assembly’s Eddie Kay, with music by Tony-Nominated composer Alex Baranowski on 24th February.

Motionhouse, one of the most innovative

Motionhouse, one of the most innovative dance companies, presents ‘Broken’

dance companies, brings ‘Broken’, an athletic dance set to a visually stunning background of digital projections, to Leeds on 15th April.

Alexander Whitely (South Bank Award nominee 2014 and Sadler’s Wells New Wave Associate) brings his work to Leeds for the first time with ‘The M e as u re s Take n’ on 23rd April. Whitely has previously worked with Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor|Random Dance, Rambert and Balletboyz amongst others.

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The National Dance Company Wales returns with a mesmerising Mixed Programme featuring John Inger’s ‘Walking Mad’, Alexander Ekman’s ‘Tuplet’ and Lee Johnston’s beautiful and heartbreaking ‘They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem’ on 29th April.

Ballet Black presents the wonderful family show ‘Dogs Don’t Do Ballet’ on 18th and 19th April.

For full details, visit theatreleeds.com

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Pictured: Matt Dix, Lil Dix, Simon Fogal, Katie Lanceley and Ross Featherstone Photo: Tom Joy

group of food fanatics, including restaurateurs, street food vendors, food bloggers and media moguls are ready to serve up the inaugural Leeds Indie Food Festival. It will be held across Leeds from 7th – 24th May, culminating in Leeds Feast at The Tetley.

Expect your favourite independents to run a selection of great events including, tasters, beer collaborations, workshops and cookery classes.

A variety of food films and documentaries will be shown throughout the festival, together

with workshops designed for kids as well as adults.

The Leeds Indie Food Passport gives you discounts at indie shops, priority access to events, special menus, plus full access to the closing party. The idea is that you can go around the cafes, bars, and restaurants collecting stamps, redeeming discounts, purchasing exclusive products and getting special festival sample tasters.

The Leeds Feast at The Tetley will close the festival.

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Expect your favourite independents to run a selection of great events

revealed in due course, but the event will host up to 30 independent food traders plus a craft beer tent, children’s area and activities, alongside music, dining clubs, films, art and much more. Leeds Indie Food passports are available now (£12.50 early bird) from www.leedsindiefood.co.uk - where you will also find all the latest information about the festival. You can follow them on Twitter @ leedsindiefood and on Facebook too.

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The Food Academy, formerly housed on the top floor of the Flannels store on Vicar Lane, has a new home at Leeds City College’s Printworks Campus on Hunslet Road and, while it may not enjoy as much passing trade as before, it is now a destination spot well worth the short journey from the city centre. t the heart of Leeds City College’s culinary department, The Food Academy has the distinction of being the only restaurant in Leeds run entirely by students. If, however, you just read students as ‘amateur’ or ‘subpar’ then think again. The restaurant’s menu features inventive and considered dishes that can easily hold their own amongst the best our city’s finest eateries have to offer.

The somewhat sparse and unassuming dining room strikes a comfortable balance, being neither too casual nor too swanky and the style of service is professional yet relaxed.

Back of house, however, it seems there is no space for half measures or compromise; the focus is squarely on a diligent commitment to quality and it is with what appears on the plate where the Academy really shines.

To start there was the Round Green Venison Carpaccio whose rich gaminess was cut through with tart rhubarb

Vegetarian options rarely come as robust and intensely flavoursome as the Winter Truffle Risotto

and a subtly sweet and smoky whiskey dressing. The Queenie Scallops were served with exceptionally light and fresh handmade linguini and sultana, pepper, courgette and ginger.

The Mackerel Escabeche was a veritable festival of smoky flavours served as it was with smoked baby gem, tobacco apple and celeriac.

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but tasty Winter Vegetable Broth was a perfect palette cleanser and then it was on to the mains. The Cider Braised Pork Belly brought out the best in the deliciously juicy and fatty cut of meat accentuated by the slightly coarsely textured homemade black pudding and offset with the fruitiness of rhubarb and apple. As for the vegetarian option, they rarely come as robust and intensely flavoursome as the Winter Truffle Risotto wherein the delectable pungency of the truffle combined with the sharpness of the Harrogate Blue croquettes and pickled Jerusalem artichoke to create a particularly heady taste

The Food Academy is a bona fide hidden gem which boasts some sensation. The Plate of Yorkshire Lamb was an outstanding triumvirate of cuts with succulently pink herb crusted rack, crispy belly and shoulder hot pot, complimented with a rich and tasty pearl barley stew and Vichy baby veg. Not only was every dish perfectly cooked and presented, we were also happy to find the portions quite substantial.

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All in all, every aspect of our meal was superb and The Food Academy is a bona fide hidden gem which boasts some serious talent in the kitchen. I urge you to seek it out and pay this excellent restaurant a visit, you certainly won’t regret it!

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Leeds City Council is looking for adoptive families for children who can no longer live with their birth families.

Whether you already have children and would like to extend your family, or want to start a family through adoption, they would like to hear from you.

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm Seeks Volunteers Meanwood Valley Urban Farm (MVUF) is seeking people with skills in gardening, the environment and conservation to join its team of dedicated volunteers. A full day would be great but volunteering for just half a day each week could make a big difference to the Farm.

Volunteering for just half a day each week could make a big difference to nformation evenings, running from 6.30 – 8.30pm, are currently planned for two locations in Leeds - The Village Hotel, Otley Road, Far Headingley, LS16 5PR, and Children’s Social Work Service, Kernel House, Killingbeck Drive, Leeds, LS14 6UF. For the precise dates and times, p l e a s e v i s i t w w w. l e e d s . g ov. u k /a d o p t 4 l e e d s

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MVUF is a local charity providing educational services to disadvantaged young people and adults and environmental education to primary school children. It offers members of the local community and other visitors a calm, peaceful place to ‘recharge their batteries’ less than two miles from the city centre.

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orty eight oak trees were recently planted in Meanwood Park in remembrance of the Meanwood men who fell in the Great War. This was the culmination of the Meanwood Men Project, which included a book about the men, their families and the impact their deaths had on Meanwood.

The project also featured a plaque listing the men’s names on the War Memorial in Meanwood.

This was made possible by the Heritage Lottery First World War Centenary Fund, whose grant of £7,500 was secured through the Meanwood Village Association.

Over the past year, local resident Cynthia Ruston researched the lives of the men who fought and lost their lives in WW1. “When I started the names were quite meaningless to

It soon developed into a quest to find out more about these men

be honest”, she said. “But it soon developed into a quest to find out more about these men, who they were, where they lived, where they worked and sadly how they died. It turned into a real labour of love. It was an honour to reveal their lives and the devastating impact that losing so many men had on Meanwood, which was a small village community at that time.”

Today’s Meanwood community has been behind the project all the way, with many people turning out to plant the memorial avenue of trees, and for the book, which was fittingly launched at a Vintage Tea Dance on 21st December.

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News From Your Councillors CLLR

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Leeds Community Foundation (LCF) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary of grant giving. Over the past decade, thanks to the generosity of donors both large and small, LCF has distributed over £23m in grants to over 2,000 community organisations and has helped to transform the lives of thousands of people.

he work of the Leeds Community Foundation is all about finding people who have the financial resources to give, and creating links between them and the community projects that can use the money to best effect. Unfortunately, the local need continues to grow – last year alone, LCF received nearly twice as many applications as it could actually fund.

To meet that demand, LCF launched the LCF Birthday Challenge which aims to raise money through a wide range of methods, encouraging as many people as possible to get involved.

“Whether you can afford £10 or £10,000, the support you provide

Pictured: SallyAnne Greenfield, Chief Executive LCF, former Chairmen, John Ansbro & Kevin O’Connor of Baker Tilly, & current Chairman Martin Allison of Quota Sales.

can really help us increase our reach and continue to make a difference in Leeds”, said Sally-Anne Greenfield, LCF’s Chief Executive.

During the celebration in December, over 20 pledges were made. They came from individuals, community groups and companies, and included offers to join the 100 Club, selecting LCF as Charity of the Year and two donations of £5,000!

For more details on how to donate and get involved visit www. leedscf.org.uk

Keith Loudon Awarded OBE Horsforth resident Keith Loudon, Senior Partner at Leeds stockbrokers Redmayne-Bentley was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours List for services to business and charities.

For decades has played a key role in politics and in supporting charities and community clubs in Leeds. He served on Leeds City Council for over 40 years and was Lord Mayor from 1993-1994.

“I have been very fortunate that in every aspect of my working life, I have been supported by very good people”, said Keith. “Anything I get is a vote of thanks to them, a reflection of them and the attitude of the firm.”

Horsforth on Track to Become Fairtrade Town The campaign for Horsforth to become a Fairtrade town started a year ago and has already met three out of the five goals required by the Fairtrade Foundation. ecoming a Fairtrade town involves thinking ethically about how we live and, in the process, helping others.

The campaign is backed by both Horsforth Churches Together and Horsforth Town Council, who have been busy encouraging businesses, schools and individuals to commit to choosing Fairtrade products where possible.

“We always welcome new additions to our steering group”, said Matt Wright, Minister, Lister Hill Baptist Church. “We also need more local schools and businesses to declare their support for Fairtrade.

We’re currently offering a free Fairtrade hamper to the business in Horsforth that drinks the most tea and tells us about it!

“We plan for Horsforth to become a Fairtrade town in 2015 and want to thank all who have supported us so far. We all have the power to change someone’s life for the better and if we choose Fairtrade I can guarantee we will do it!”

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Headingley and Kirkstall councillors are pleased that, after much lobbying of Central Government, funding has been allocated to make Headingley Station fully accessible, with step free access onto both platforms for passengers.

Pictured: Cllrs Lucinda Yeadon, Neil Walshaw & John Illingworth on the steps at Headingley Station

eadingley Cllr Neil Walshaw said: “This is very welcome news after several years of sustained lobbying by Headingley and Kirkstall councillors for the Government to take action on the poor levels of access at Headingley”, said Cllr Neil Walshaw, “particular the platform to Leeds, which has steep steps and is difficult for the elderly, disabled or those of us with young children.”

Called Headingley Station, it is actually located in Kirkstall Ward. “Whilst this is big step forward for residents in Kirkstall and Headingley”, commented Cllr John Illingworth, “we must remember that there are over 20 stations still needing such improvements across West Yorkshire if we are to have a fully accessible rail network.”

If they are successful in securing a grant to cover the purchase, your donation will go towards the cost of the refurbishment. If they are unsuccessful in getting the property, they will return your money.

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ould you help OPAL – the charity Older People’s Action in the Locality, which supports the over 60s living in Cookridge, Ireland Wood, Tinshill, Holt Park, Adel and Bramhope – buy and transform the Bedford Arms pub on the corner of Silk Mill Drive and Bedford Drive into a LS16 Community Centre, owned and overseen by OPAL? OPAL urgently needs to raise £35,000 to secure the property before it is sold for development. For £50 you can ‘buy a brick’ and have your name, or the name of a loved one engraved on the brick. If they sell 700 bricks they will have secured the building!

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eadingley Development Trust (HDT) is a residentled, enterprise-based organisation with over 1,000 members, which delivers, brokers and supports a range of initiatives and services of benefit to the community in Headingley.

In 2005 Headingley was identified by Sheffield Hallam University as having the weakest community bonds in England. The influx of students had unbalanced housing and the local economy. An estimated 80% of the population was transient, creating associated problems like antisocial behaviour and a lack of care for neighbours and the environment.

HDT was created in response to this. The aim was to create a sustainable, healthy and balanced community, where people would want to live at all stages of their lives and achieve a good quality of life. With this in mind, it has delivered a wide variety of enterprises

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and projects, all dependent on the energy and enthusiasm of its members, who contribute on a voluntary basis. These include: HEART – HDT’s flagship enterprise in a redundant primary school on Bennett Road, which was partly financed through a community share scheme. It opened in January 2011 and houses PULSE (flexible workspace), a cafe, meeting rooms, exhibition and performance space. It has become the hub for a wide variety of community activities and events and employs 15 staff (www.heartcentre. org.uk).

Headingley Farmers’ Market began in 2007, providing an outlet for local producers. it quickly became an invaluable social space, featuring live music monthly and spawning enterprises like the Fowl Co-op, a community supported scheme providing organic, free range chickens, and Headingley Country Markets – a co-op of local bakers and cooks (www.headingleyfarmersmarket. com).

Headingley Community Orchard identifies land where fruit trees and bushes can be planted. It is currently working on five sites, including at a local school and a major project at the edge of ancient woodland (www.headingleycommunityorchard. org.uk).

Headingley Homes –was formed to bring more families back into the area, it manages three houses (owning one), which are let to long-term residents,

and seeks to influence housing policy and work constructively with other local bodies.

Plus, there’s Films at HEART featuring monthly film screenings (www.heartcentre. org.uk/films-at-heart; Cafe Scientifique which organises speakers and discussions on scientific topics and, in 2008, HDT sponsored the buy-out of the Natural Food Store on North Lane, which is now a thriving independent co-operative .

HDT is always on the lookout for new ways whereby collective enterprise can contribute to the wellbeing of Headingley. It provides the space and support for new projects to emerge to meet the changing needs of the community and is always keen for new members to get involved and bring their ideas to the table.

For more information, visit www. headingleydevelopmenttrust. org.uk, or email info@ headingleydevelopmenttrust. org.uk

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t a f f, st u d e n t s a n d governors from Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College celebrated its 25th anniversary in December with a Mass at Leeds Cathedral followed by dinner at the college itself.

Catholic education has been provided on this site since 1898, when the Sisters of Notre Dame came to Leeds. In 1904, what is now the Sixth Form College was built and opened as Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls. In 1978 the school became the Notre Dame High School, a catholic comprehensive school for pupils aged 13 to 18, with around 650 girls.

When Catholic education in Leeds was restructured in

1989, the school became the sixth form college for Leeds Catholic high schools, and also became co-educational. It now educates almost 1,900 16 to 19 year olds from a wide variety of schools across Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford and beyond, making it ten times larger than the average Leeds sixth form, and provides qualifications in over 30 subjects.

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Over 300 staff, governors and students celebrated the occasion, including three past principals of the college. Several students provided entertainment.

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eeds Plans Panel has rejected an application to build houses on a green field site close to Moseley Wood Gardens in Cookridge.

Greg Mulholland MP joined hundreds of local residents, and the Cookridge Residents Action Group (CRAG) in objecting to the original proposal by Taylor Wimpey to build 200 houses in October 2013, and the second application in August 2014, objecting to the development on the grounds that local infrastructure is insufficient to support the increase in population new housing would

Residents were concerned over strain on medical services and schools

drain into the Beck, which could have a serious impact on the railway line which runs through the area.

Greg supported the Cookridge Residents Action Group (CRAG) saying the site should not be allocated for housing at all due to the risk of flooding.

“Local infrastructures including school and medical services would not have been able to cope with the increase in population that the proposed development would have brought, and there was also serious concern of increased flooding”, said Greg. “Cookridge Residents Action Group and local residents have worked extremely hard to ensure that their concerns and opposition to the application were listened too.”

bring. Local residents were also concerned over strain on medical services and school places.

A report to planners said that outline planning permission should be refused as it would cause harm “to the amenity of the neighbouring residents on Moseley Wood Rise”. The report also highlighted the problem of accessing the site.

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LCC relies 100% on donations and is always on the lookout for new corporate sponsors and individual fundraisers. For further information, visit www. leedschildrenscharity.org.uk

y next Summer, Leeds C h i l d r e n ’s Charity (previously known as Leeds Children’s Holiday Camp Association and Silverdale) will have helped 60,000 youngsters from around Leeds. To celebrate this milestone, it is appealing for people who were helped by the charity as children to get in touch and share their memories.

LCC runs a respite centre for disadvantaged children in Silverdale, Lancashire, where over 500 children every year enjoy a week by the seaside. The aim is to collate their memories into a

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commemorative book, showcasing LCC’s work. It is also planning to hold a reunion and would like as many people as possible to attend.

“There must be people who made lifelong friends during their breaks, or who learned new skills or were given inspiration that made a lasting impact on their lives”, said Verlie McCann, LCC Chairman. “We would love to find out what our children are doing now as adults and help people understand the work the charity does.”

If you have memories to share, contact Verlie McCann on 0113 245 4281 or info@ leedschildrenscharity.org.uk

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s a result of our consultations, we have now set out key policies for the Neighbourhood Plan.

Our Vision for Adel is to build on our ancient history and ensure that future developments define, protect and enhance Adel as a modern settlement, known for its landscape, green spaces and gardens, together with the character of its buildings.

The quality of our amenities and education provision will also be major priorities, which will help to strengthen our sense of community.

Excellent accessibility to the city will be increasingly important for economic and social benefits.

The Plan will cover the design,

layout, character and mix of proposed housing. We recognise that more housing is required and have supported, in principle, cases where brown field sites have been proposed. However we are opposed to development on green field sites.

Education and the lack of primary school places to meet new demands, and traffic problems arising from new and proposed developments are important issues that will be addressed. The impact of additional housing on the community has identified issues such as the need for children’s play provision, the absence of a Community Centre, and the need for additional GP provision.

Our environment and heritage policies will include: - Identifying Adel as a green gateway to Leeds through large tree planting on wide grass verges, and improvements to the character and appearance of the retail frontages on Otley Road; - Creating a network of green links between the open areas in and around Adel through new foot and

cycle paths that connect Adel to a city-wide network; - Protecting the setting of heritage buildings such as Adel Parish Church and features like Long Causeway, Scotland Mill and other important historical elements.

It is hoped that The Plan will become a statutory document and the Forum will have to be consulted by anyone wishing to undertake development in Adel.

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The Leeds and District National Trust Association celebrated its fortieth anniversary in December with a meeting attended by more than 150 members. he Association’s President, Honorary Alderman Bernard Atha CBE, presided and recounted how in 1894 three undistinguished individuals decided to set up an organisation to save our heritage. “Who would have thought”, he said, “that more than one hundred years later the initiative of these three individuals would have led to an organisation which owns and protects vast areas of land, some of the most beautiful coastline in the country, innumerable stately homes, historic buildings, castles, and ancient monuments, and now employs 5,000 individuals and deploys an estimated 30,000 volunteers.

“Forty years ago, a small number of individuals met at Leeds University to form an association to play its part in supporting this great organisation. Originally called ‘The Mid Yorkshire Centre’, the name was subsequently changed to the Leeds and District Association of the National Trust.”

The Leeds organisation makes donations every year to local National Trust properties.

As there are none in the Metropolitan District of Leeds, donations are made to sites such as Fountains Abbey, Brimham Rocks and East Riddlesden Hall. The Leeds Association also organises visits to National Trust and other properties and has an interesting lecture programme.

In an era when opportunities for social contacts are reducing, the Association offers people the opportunity to socialise and work

together on a common interest.

The fortieth celebration was organised by the secretary of the Association, who for ten years has organised the Coffee Mornings that have raised over £3,000.

A magnificent celebration cake, made by Christine Harrap, was ceremonially cut by Christine, Jane Pronay and Pamela Fishwick (one of the members who set up the Association 40 years ago).

For further information about the National Trust, please contact Bernard Atha (President) at bernard.atha@outlook.com; Jane Pronay (Secretary) at janepronay03@hotmail.co.uk, 0113 2677424; or Christina Sherborne (Membership Secretary) at cmsherborne@ btopenworld.com, 01924 892681

Marie Curie Seeks Chair for North Leeds Group Marie Curie Cancer Care is looking for someone to volunteer for the role of Chair in the North Leeds Volunteer Fundraising Group, which supports the charity’s work in the local area.

The role involves attending Fundraising Group meetings every 4-6 weeks and helping to organise the group’s fundraising activities.

The Chair is responsible for chairing meetings and is the point of contact with the local Marie Curie Office.

Hannah Saxon, local Community Fundraiser for the charity said ‘We are looking for someone who is organised, enjoys working as a team, is good at record keeping and has a genuine interest in supporting the work of Marie Curie locally. North Leeds Fundraising Group already does an incredible job in support of the Marie Curie Nursing Service, helping to provide care and emotional support to terminal ill people and their families in the comfort of their own homes”.

For further information, please contact Hannah Saxon on 01274 386190 or Hannah. saxon@mariecurie.org.uk

eadingley Neighbourhood Forum is now preparing a plan for Headingley Neighbourhood Area. The Forum and its Steering Group have both held meetings, and agreed the basic structure of the Plan.

The Group is focussing on consultation, from which the content of the plan will be developed. The first phase took place last Summer, consisting of a public meeting and a questionnaire, which asked about people’s hopes, fears and aspirations for Headingley.

From these responses, we have drafted a vision ‘to develop a sustainable, inclusive and mixed community in Headingley’.

Based on this, we have identified a number of objectives, such as promoting a balanced community, developing diverse housing, preserving our built heritage and greenspace, encouraging a sustainable economy, and so on. These are the subjects of the second phase of consultation, in which we offer the opportunity for input to everyone who lives, works or carries out business in our area.

We will then move on to phase three, and consider options for the plan. These will be carried out by means of planning policies in some cases, and by nonplanning projects in others.

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future is planned for Saturday 7th March at HEART. This will provide the basis for the first Draft Plan, which will be the subject of phase four, a formal consultation, hopefully soon after Easter.

If you live or work in the area, you can contribute in a number of ways. You can complete our online questionnaire at www.head ingleyneighbourhoodplan. org.uk/questionnaire/ Or you can request a copy by emailing the Secretary at info@h eadingleyneighbourhoodplan. org.uk Or you can return a paper copy to Headingley Neighbourhood Plan, c/o HEART, Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN.

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As Winter wears on and our evenings become a little lighter the whole cycle of growth begins again.

Sweet Peas Seed sowing is my favourite garden activity of all, and although February seems very early, it is in fact the preferred time for sowing sweet peas in the North of England.

They can be sown into good potting compost with plenty of space. Sow one seed to a 9cm pot or six to a 15cm pot and place them in a cold frame or greenhouse, covered with a sheet of newspaper, which you can remove when they germinate.

If hard frosts are forecast they may need a little extra protection in the form of newspaper or horticultural fleece. Once the seedling has

Sweet Peas can be sown into good potting compost with plenty of space

formed four leaves, pinch out the tip and the top two leaves so that your little seedlings will develop into nice bushy plants.

Trees in the Garden The cool winter months are the best time of year to plant new trees. Your choice of tree should be made with great care to ensure it will not outgrow its space, and will provide you with plenty of interest through the year. Some excellent small trees include Acer ‘Sango kaku’ or Coral Bark Maple. With its striking red bark to enjoy in Winter and beautiful fresh green foliage,

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e spoke to David Lawless, who runs Green Thumb North and North West Leeds, to find out what the experts say. “Lawn care can start at any time of the year”, he told us.

“We continue to care for lawns throughout the Winter months – scarifying to remove thatch build up and aerating to relieve compaction. This allows the lawn to absorb the water, oxygen and nutrients needed to encourage deep root growth and sustain a healthy lawn. It’s not too early to start getting your lawn ready for the warmer months ahead!”

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feature film preview, a new sponsor and a brand new mobile venue. Tickets for the event, which has been expanded across five days, from 18th – 22nd February, are on sale online, by phone or in person at the box office.

he festival line-up will include the regional preview of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The sequel to the star-studded indie comedy, which features Ilkley Film Festival patron Dame Judi Dench, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance, will be previewed in Ilkley on Saturday 21st February, ahead of its national release.

The festival will feature a brand new 100-seater mobile cinema

The festival will feature a new venue in the form of the Picturehouse’s brand new 100seater mobile cinema. The intimate and unusual new venue will screen a number of films, against the dramatic backdrop of the moorside town.

Tickets are available from the Ilkley Visitor Information Centre and by phone on 01943 602319. For full details, visit www.ilkleyfilmfestival.co.uk

Club The regular live music events at the New Headingley Club (56 St Michael’s Road, Headingley), have their roots in blues, folk, country and jazz.

They’ve been running on the last Friday of each month for over four years, bringing a great variety of established artistes - both local and others on national tour. Periodically they put on fresh, local, younger talent.

Now, to assist Paul Connor who returns after a brief sabbatical, a new team is set to find great new music for you, including Sally Coe who has close connections to the Breeze youth events run in Leeds during the Summer and is passionate about opportunities for the most talented.

The ‘New Roots’ gig on 27th February includes two great performers – Tim Loud, whose album was reviewed in the December issue where he was rated a tireless and talented artist performing well written songs with aplomb and an undertone of unpredictability; and Dylan, whose fresh lyrics and sound secured his place amongst the winners of Breeze Has Talent 2013. Since then he has continually been gaining accolades through live performance and radio exposure. A fantastic night is in store!

he Grammy nominated Godfathers of alternative cabaret are back on tour with a show celebrating 25 years of dark and deviant theatrics and will be at The City Varieties on Tuesday 17th March at 7.30pm.

With an international reputation for being the foremost avant-garde band in the world, Olivier award winners The Tiger Lillies never cease to surprise, shock and entertain with their inimitable musical style, conjuring up the macabre magic of pre-war Berlin and fusing it with the savage edge of punk.

They create a truly extraordinary atmosphere – a sort of dark gypsy cabaret

The Tiger Lillies attracted mainstream recognition for composing the music and starring in the junk opera Shockheaded Peter and recently won rave reviews with their new shows The Ancient Mariner and Lulu - A Murder Ballad.

‘They create a truly extraordinary atmosphere on stage – a sort of dark gypsy cabaret shimmering with menace. The music is also gorgeously beautiful, tender and delicate – although the sweetness is almost always followed by outrageously funny or horrible twist. It is hard to

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Album Review:

The Big Easy – Get Rhythm in Your Feet

With this album of covers The Big Easy are here to show you a swinging good time and do so with a no messing, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it approach to vintage arrangements. What we have here is unpretentious, popular jazz/blues that’s all too easy to get on board with and features ensemble performances and soloing with an open-hearted, playful quality that confidently does justice to these much loved classics.

An Evening of Inter-Celtic Music Celebrating the musical crossover between Ireland and Northumberland, Irish Arts Foundation presents an evening of Inter-Celtic Music on Saturday 7th February, 8.15pm at Inkwell on Potternewton Lane, LS7.

The evening will feature Gemma Irving (singer/ guitarist), Ian Pearson (fiddle), Des Hurley (fiddle), Chris O’Malley (keyboards) and Dave Wood (guitar) … plus special guests.

Gemma and Ian are gaining a following on the Leeds scene As the group’s name implies, The Big Easy’s sound is infused with the spirit of New Orleans as evidenced on a rendition of Minnie The Moocher, which begins languidly before erupting into a double time swing frenzy, a horn led O’ When The Saints with intertwining baritone sax and trumpet and an irresistibly jaunty take on Horace Silver’s The Preacher. The admirably cherry-picked selection of tunes on offer here also includes Ray Charles’ Hallelujah I Love Her So and, a personal favourite, Is You Is? by Louis Jordan.

Over thirteen tracks this sunny side up set is unashamedly feel-good and carefree and while the playing is extremely accomplished throughout, the

instrumentation is laid down with an easy, nonchalant air even in the midst of sometimes dizzyingly complex piano or guitar solos.

Get Rhythm In Your Feet is a fine recording indeed and a satisfying listen which leaves one eager to hear the band perform live. Fortunately, an opportunity to do so is afoot!

The launch gig for the album is on Saturday 31st January at Seven Arts, Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, 8pm. You can also catch The Big Easy at Friends of Ham in Leeds every other Sunday.

Originally from the North East, Gemma and Ian are gaining a following on the Leeds unplugged scene.

They are joined by established local musicians Des, Chris and Dave, to present a selection of traditional tunes from the world of Celtic music.

Tickets £8/£6 on the door or via www.eventbrite.co.uk/ For further information, contact 0113 278 7442 or info@irisharts.org.uk

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It would be easy to dismissively prejudge Foxcatcher as quintessential Oscar-bait, bearing as it does the hallmarks of those self-consciously worthy pictures that tend to appear in the run up to awards season.

And while the film does have the unhurried pace, overall air of gravitas and an attention grabbing central performance by an actor ‘as you’ve never seen them before’ playing out of their comfort zone, Foxcatcher is a good deal more than your typical, cynical statue-grab and is in fact a compelling true life tale expertly told.

The story concerns Olympic wrestling brothers, Mark and Dave Schultz, both gold medal winners, and the bizarre and ultimately tragic chain of events set in motion when the younger sibling, Mark (Channing Tatum) is approached by the eccentric heir to the Du Pont dynasty, John Du Pont (Steve Carrell).

Mark is summoned to Du Pont’s opulent, palatial family home where the multimillionaire lays out his proposition; Mark and his brother are to join him at his family’s Foxcatcher farm with its state-of-the-art training facility and as their patron, benefactor, coach and mentor Du Pont will lead the US Olympic wrestling team to victory at Seoul ’88.

While Mark is ready to jump at the opportunity Dave (Mark Ruffalo), settled into family life, requires more convincing.

tension that builds to its shocking denouement

What follows is an engrossing drama of shifting loyalties and alliances played out with mounting tension that builds to its shocking denouement.

What makes Foxcatcher so riveting is the exploration

of the relationship dynamic between the Schultz brothers and Du Pont, with each of these characters fully realised in excellent performances by the three leads. The fraught fraternal bond between Mark and Dave is palpably evoked and a real sense of history is conveyed. Much has been made of Steve Carrell’s transformative, very creepy turn as Du Pont and deservedly so. Barely recognisable under nasal prosthetics and an ashen pallor, with an odd, halting manner of speech, Carrell’s Du Pont is portrayed as a man alienated by wealth, socially awkward, profoundly lonely and given to seething resentment. The approval he seeks from his aloof mother (played by Vanessa Redgrave) eludes him and, while he would like to

imagine himself as a leader of men, he lacks the qualities required to make it so. This is key in the antipathy he develops towards Dave who, as a celebrated sportsman and inspirational figure, has the admiration and devotion of his team.

Director Bennett Miller presents this story with a masterful touch. Shot with a muted colour palette and subdued in tone, the film is a slow burn which is devastatingly effective.

M i l l e r has also succeeded in coaxing absolutely o u t s t a n d i n g performances from Carrell, Tatum and Ruffalo.

Foxcatcher is the real deal, a big, serious important movie that genuinely has the goods. Whatever nods it receives come Oscar night will be well earned.

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Hiss Golden Messenger

3 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £16.50. American roots music with inspiration as diverse as Townes Van Zandt, Kurt Cobain, The Replacements, Ray Charles & The Pogues. Also appearing: Andrew Combs, Paul Niehaud

Sun 8 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £11. Ghostly Laurel Canyon folk-blues.

Hudson Taylor Wed 4 Feb,

Feb, Oporto, £7.70. Melting pot of musical influences including Fleetwood Mac, Crosby Stills & Nash, Rolling Stones & Muddy Waters.

Brudenell Social Club, £12.10.

Beguiling, vivacious folk-pop.

Also appearing: Southern

Rae Morris Wed 4 Feb The Wardrobe, £12. Raw singersongwriter in the vein of PJ Harvey, Kate Bush or Feist.

Baby Strange Wed 4 Feb,

Belgrave Music Hall, 11pm, £6.60. Glaswegian punk trio all leather jackets, spit & snarl.

Also appearing: Dolomite Minor

Amber Run Thu 5 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £8.80.

With their four-part harmonies & expansive sound they strike a balance between stadiumsized rock & the intimacy of folk music.

Amjad Ali Khan Thu 5 Feb Howard Assembly Room, £15. Renowned maestro of the sarod, Indian string superstar performs alongside his two sons.

Julian Cope Fri 6 Feb

Brudenell Social Club, £24.75.

Former 80s new romantic hero with Teardrop Explodes & allround eccentric.

Viet Cong Sat 7 Feb,

Brudenell Social Club, £7.70.

Expressive fusion of art-rock & lo-fi pop with extensive use of electronics & noise.

Quercus Sat 7 Feb, Howard Assembly Room, £15. The ultimate chamber-folk/jazz trio.

Mariachi El Bronx Sat 7 Feb, Key Club, £13.20. The Mexican alter-ego of Southern Californian rockers The Bronx.

An Evening of Inter-Celtic Music Sat 7 Feb, 8.15pm at Inkwell, Potternewton Ln, LS7. Celebrating the Musical Crossover between Ireland & Northumberland. £8/£6

One Night Only Sun 8 Feb, Belgrave Music Hall, £9.90.

Indie rock / electronica.

The Sundowners Tue 10

Seven Unplugged: Fishing For Compliments, Diamond Dac, Anne Lee Trio, Zealous Doxy, Moonshine 5. Wed 11 Feb

monthly acoustic night, 8pm at Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd. Chapel Allerton. £5

Ex Hex Wed 11 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £9.90. Near the middle of a Go-gos/ Ramones / Sleater-Kinney Venn diagram.

Speedy, riff-happy power-pop smothered in snarling backtalk & shameless, glorious guitar solos.

The Caezars Fri 13 Feb, HiFi Django Django Sat 14

The Orb Fri 20 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £17.60.

Pioneers of ambient house with the euphoria-inducing sounds that made them club favourites.

The Decemberists Sat

Saltaire Live: Mike McGoldrick, John Doyle & John McCusker Sat 21

Club, £8.80. Vintage styled Surf-Rock.

Feb, The Wardrobe, £16.50.

Psychedelic art pop

14 Feb, O2 Academy, £20.35.

Literate & evocative folk-pop.

Kate Tempest Sat 14 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £13.75.

Potent blend of hip hop & poetry.

Kitty Daisy & Lewis Sun 15 Feb, The Wardrobe, £13.20.

Talented London trio making contemporary skiffle blues with 20’s feel.

H. Hawkline Sun 15 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £5.50.

Welsh singer /songwriter & Cate Le Bon collaborator.

The Jesus & Mary Chain Tue 17 Feb, O2 Academy, £27.50. Scottish alternative rock band who changed the face of alternative punk in 80s/90s.

Jon Palmer Acoustic Band & The Bronze Thurs 12 Feb,

Gruff Rhys Tue 17 Feb,

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The Wave Pictures Wed

8pm at Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd. Chapel Allerton. Excellent folk, roots, rock & roll combo. £8 from www.sevenleeds.co.uk Wardrobe, £13.20. Glorious psychedelic folk from highly rated indie-folk solo act.

Phil Selway Thu 12 Feb,

Brudenell Social Club, £22.

Radiohead drummer solo project

Brudenell Social Club, £17.60.

Super Furry Animals frontman whose music encompasses a range of styles, including psychedelia, folk & electro-pop.

18 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £8.80. Think early Pavement, Galaxie 500, The Pastels, Jonathan Richman.

Arrested Development

Thu 12 Feb, Seven Arts, £8.

Folk, roots, rock & roll with passion & vigour.

Wed 18 Feb Leeds University Union, £22. Laid back, funky hip-hopsters who took the world by storm in mid-90s with ‘Everyday People’ & ‘Mr Wendall’

Piano Wire (Eighties

TV On The Radio Thu 19

Jon Palmer Acoustic Band

Matchbox B Line Disaster) 13 Feb 8pm – 2am at Wharf Chambers. Also playing: The Treated Hilary & Hate Crimes Meriel Malone £5 / £4 adv from Jumbo & Crash. After show disco with Tom Pullan & Laura Dolores. Twitter: @ trampnights’

Feb, O2 Academy , £20.35.

Versatile, experimental New York group, encompassing elements of jazz, rock, psychedelia & trip-hop.

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Feb, O2 Academy, £17.20.

Featuring: Palma Violets, Fat White Family, The Amazing Snakeheads, Slaves

Feb Victoria Hall, Saltaire £15

John Smith Sat 21 Feb

Howard Assembly Room, £12.50. Mesmerising percussive guitar & storytelling.

Earth Sun 22 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £14.30. Original pioneers of minimalist drone music specialising in repetitive, metal-inspired instrumentals.

Trails Sun 22 Feb, Temple of Boom. A 4-piece punk rock band with influences that include The Mars Volta, & Pulled Apart By Horses. Also appearing: Scouts

Slow Club Mon 23 Feb, The Wardrobe, £13.75. Soulful country-pop-sing-a-long duets.

Two Gallants Mon 23 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £14.85.

A definitive fusion of punk-rock energy & folkish storytelling.

Their aggressive, drunkensounding balladry is something to behold.

Deerhoof Wed 25 Feb, Brudenell Social Club, £13.20.

Art-electro anchored by sweet melodies & hypnotic rhythmic movement.

Ryan Adams Wed 25 Feb, O2 Academy, £32.35. Leading light of alt-country scene with a rock edge.

Andrew McMahon Fri 27

Feb, Key Club, £15.40. Singer/ songwriter, formerly vocalist & primary songwriter for Something Corporate & Jack’s Mannequin.

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Health & Fitness

Following personal experience of the importance of organ donation, two musicians team up to raise awareness

ast year, singer Jen Armstrong’s friend Rex ‘s mother was seriously ill and required life-saving transplant surgery. She had been on the waiting list for over a year and all he could do was watch as she gradually deterioriated.

That watching and waiting is so frustrating – you are helpless, desperate to do something but unable to do anything…..just wait for a suitable donor.

Thanks to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the generosity of someone who had registered as a donor, she received that lifesaving operation just in time.

As both Jen and Rex are musicians, they decided to create a piece of music, put it on YouTube, and campaign to raise awareness of the importance of donor registration. Their striking and emotional video

Their striking and emotional video gives all the statistics about organ donation

gives all the statistics about organ donation and how vital it its. The message is simple, take a look at the video, listen to the song, share it, and think about registering as a donor.

That one-click action could save someone’s life.

If you haven’t been affected by something like this, the chances are you will be at some point in your life, spreading the message about organ donation could save thousands of lives.

All profits from sales of the single will be donated to organ donation charities. To view the video, visit http://bitly.com/ saysomethingtoday

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Healthy Hearts in the Classroom Workshop for Teachers British Heart Foundation is holding a free, half day workshop for primary school teachers, teaching assistants and those working with primary schools on 5th March at John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, Leeds LS11. The aim is to introduce a range of free resources, programmes and initiatives which can be used to engage primaryaged children in the issue of heart health.

Participants will have the opportaunity to discover ideas and materials for lessons, ongoing creative projects and fun learning experiences, including tried and tested favourites such as Jump Rope for Heart and Artie Beat reading books.

All participants will receive a handbook as a point of reference to work through during the workshop and copies of some resources will be available to take away.

For further information, visit www.bhfactive.org.uk

bbey Runners, established 30 years ago by a group of like-minded runners in North Leeds, and now numbering over 150 members of all ages and abilities (including a thriving Juniors section), recently moved their HQ to Holt Park Active in Cookridge.

“We are extremely excited about moving to Holt Park Active, not the least being the firstclass facilities at such a great location”, said Martin Browne, Club President. “We believe that our new home offers tremendous opportunities for both Abbey Runners and Holt Park Active.

We’ve even refreshed our Club logo to mark both the move and our 30 year anniversary!”

Pictured: Martin Browne (left) & John Ward (right) present Tony Allinson (Sylvia Wright Trust) with a cheque for £1,250.

Our aim is to engage with as many people in the locality as possible

“Our aim is to engage with as many people in the locality as possible and to do so now with a club the size and stature of Abbey Runners is exceptionally pleasing”, said Mark Robinson, Holt Park Active Manager.

Abbey Runners organise a number of races every year, including the popular Eccup 10. “In the last ten years, the Club’s flagship race, has raised over £20,000 for local charities - including Sue Ryder (Wheatfields), the Sylvia Wright Trust and Hollybank.”

Abbey Runners train Tuesday evening and every second Thursday from Holt Park Active at 7.30pm. See www.abbeyrunners. co.uk for details.

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Half Term is Shaping Up to be an Interesting Week here are a number of great shows scheduled at The Carriageworks; The Royal Armouries has a fascinating programme on Japanese history and culture lined up; Thackray Medical Museum gives you an opportunity to dissect a heart; National Media Museum in Bradford peeks behind the scenes of ‘Shaun the Sheep The Movie’; and LeftBank Leeds has a mobile skate park right inside the church!

Skate at Leftbank! eftBank Leeds on Cardigan Road will be transformed into a temporary skate park from Monday 16th – Saturday 21st February, with three sessions a day, at 10am, 12 and 2pm, each lasting two hours.

Aimed mainly at 8 – 17 year olds, this is a unique opportunity to skate among the arches in this spectacular old church building. The mobile skate park, provide by King Ramps, will be in place for six days, with a celebration event on Friday evening.

The skate park will be staffed at all times by

experienced instructors from The Works skate park, and participants will be required to wear helmets, which can be provided.

Parental consent is required for under 18s. Beginners welcome!

Spaces are limited to 25 per session, split into skateboard, scooter and BMX bike groups. Individual

and group bookings available - free for under 18.

On Saturday there will be adult sessions during the day, with live entertainment and bar in the evening (£6).

The project is funded by the Inner North West Area Committee. To book contact: 07553 988698, whatshappening@ leftbankleeds.org.uk

Eastern Warriors at The Royal Armouries rom Saturday 14th – Sunday 22nd February, The Royal Armouries has a real treat in store for everyone interested in Japanese history. There will be demonstrations, performances, handling sessions and gallery tours. Try your hand at origami crafts; watch the masters of Kobud and Taekwondo in action; and take part in a martial arts workshop.

Then, there are Sushimaking demonstrations and workshops, a Taiko Drumming Show featuring world-renowned percussion maestro Joji Hirota, and a workshop to find out how he does it. Plus there’s a Kurosawa Samurai Film Season For full details, visit www. royalarmouries.org or contact Debbie.wurr@ armouries.org.uk

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Dissect a Heart at Thackray Medical Museum Why is the heart one of the most important organs in the body? What does it do and how does it do it?

From 16th – 20th February Thackray Medical Museum is giving visitors the chance to understand how the heart works and why we all need to work hard to keep it healthy.

Budding surgeons will be able to dissect a real heart and discover some fascinating facts about the heart.

“This is a fantastic opportunity for children to see a part of their anatomy up close”, said Liz Egan, Education Officer. “We hope they will go away with an understanding of the importance of healthy eating and exercise as a way of keeping the heart in good working order.”

Book your session on arrival at the museum. A small charge will apply.

J Nicobobinus – The boy who could do anything Red Ladder Theatre and DumbWise present Python Terry Jones’ children’s book, Nicobobinus at The Carriageworks on 27th & 28th February. This is an adventurous family musical adaptation about the boy ‘who could do anything’!

In a land where Dragons are locked in boiler rooms and mountains move like the oceans, Nicobobinus and his best friend Rosie embark on a wild adventure to cure him of a golden curse. Obstructed by kidnapping pirates and savage monks, will they find the cure in time or be forced to return to their home in Venice, changed forever?

Adapted and directed by Red Ladder associate John Ward, and comprising a cast of five actor musicians, this epic adventure brings Terry’s story to life with original songs, instrumental acrobatics, singing, excitement and Monty Python-esque wit.

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Half Term at The Carriageworks Jekyll & Hyde (Mon 16 Feb, 7:30pm, tickets: £12.50/ £10.50, age 11+) – Written by Jo Clifford and award-winning company Sell a Door, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic is reinterpreted in this modern adaptation set in an alternative, future London. Dr Henry Jekyll is a high-profile cancer specialist, determined to find the breakthrough that will solve mankind’s most challenging medical uncertainties. Making himself the subject of his experimental treatments, he accidentally unleashes his inner demon: the infamous Mr. Hyde.

in a jeep and a frog in a bush give it a push - but it stays stuck!

Duck in the Truck (Tues 17 Feb, 11am & 2pm, £9.50/ £8.50 & £6) is based on a book by Jez Alborough. It’s the tale of a duck in a truck, stuck in muck. A sheep

Duck in the Truck Tues 17 Feb

Main Auditorium: 11am & 2pm Tickets: £9.50 (£8.50 concession), £6 (no concession) Family Ticket: £34 Age 3+

Could a goat in a boat help?

Three to seven years olds will love this. It’s totally quackers!

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Fri 20 Feb, 2pm, tickets: £9.50/£8.50 & £6) by Mo Willems is full of fun and feathers for children aged three and up.

It features original music and lots of audience participation.

The bus driver gives one simple instruction: “Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!” But he’s a very clever pigeon!

The Little Match Girl (Sat 21 Feb, 2pm, tickets: £8/ £6, ages 2 – 6)) is the enchanting story of a young child’s hopes and dreams – a heart-warming, life affirming tale for all the family with puppetry and live music.

Nicobobinus Fri 27 – Sat 28 Feb

Main Auditorium: Fri 1pm Schools Show, 7pm; Sat 2pm, 7pm Tickets: £9.50 (£8.50 concession), £6 (no concession) Family Ticket: £34 Age 6+

Shaun the Sheep at National Media Museum This Half Term (14-22 February) flock to the National Media Museum in Bradford and take a peek behind the scenes of ‘Shaun the Sheep The Movie’.

treated to a specially-produced interactive show before every screening, demonstrating some of the stop-motion animation techniques used in the film.

The National Media Museum has teamed up with the awardwinning Aardman Animations studio to present ‘Get Animated with Shaun the Sheep The Movie’ - a week of baa-rilliant activities for the whole family, sharing a few secrets about how the adventures of Shaun and the gang from Mossy Bottom Farm are brought to the screen.

Other family activities around the Museum include model-

Not only will fans be able to see the film, they will also be

making and storyboarding workshops with the talented people from Aardman; a chance to win an exclusive prize in the ewe-nique family trail, and the opportunity to discover some of the technological tricks used to bring Shaun and his friends to life.

Tickets for ‘Shaun the Sheep The Movie’ are available from Picturehouse at National Media Museum (0871 902 5756 www.picturehouses. co.uk). All other activities are free but booking may be required (0844 856 3797 www. nationalmediamuseum.org.uk).

COMPETITION The National Media Museum is giving away two great family prizes to celebrate this exciting half term event.

1st prize – A Shaun the Sheep goodie bag, plus a family ticket for four to see Shaun the Sheep the Movie at the National Media Museum 2nd prize – A family ticket for four to see Shaun the Sheep the Movie at the National Media Museum Just answer the following question: Which British animation studio created Shaun the Sheep? And, send your answer to win@nationalmediamuseum .org.uk Terms and Conditions - Travel and accommodation not included - Competition tickets only valid for this film – Shaun the Sheep The Movie - Closing date Tuesday 10th February 2015, 12 noon - Winners must be available to attend the stated film - No cash alternative available

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Younger Life

Organised by Ruth Dass of the Connecting Enterprising Women organisation, a number of Sixth Form students recently visited the Houses of Parliament. ollowing a tour of the Palace of Westminster, they were taken into one of the parliamentary private chambers to get a feel for the governmental process.

Here they were welcomed

by Leeds West MP and opposition minister, Rachel Reeves, who answered a slew of questions including: Can you tell us about your career

They were welcomed by Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves

journey through politics? How do you juggle a career as a front bench politician with being a mum? How is your work divided between your constituency in Leeds and Westminster?

Time was also spent in the public galleries of the House of Commons, where they were fortunate enough to hear both David Cameron delivering a

speech about the G20 summit and Ed Milliband responding.

In the House of Lords they heard speeches relating to an amendment to the modern day slavery bill.

Two of the girls were particularly keen to learn more and Krina Patel and Tara Mogridge were delighted when, on the train back to Leeds, they received an email from Rachel Reeves inviting them to shadow her for a day or two, in London or Leeds, to get a feel for life in politics.

Organiser, Ruth Dass, was presented with a Prime Minister’s Points of Light award, which recognises outstanding individuals who are making a difference in their communities and inspiring others.

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could be created; in geography, they can

“Our fields are a tremendous asset

wine and minced pies in the warmth of

learn about coordinates and direction – the list is endless.”

The yurt was officially opened on 12th December by Leeds Rhinos and England Rugby League legend Keith Senior, who spent time chatting to the children. There was a great turn out of parents and carers who enjoyed mulled the new outdoor facility.

and we want to make best use of them”, said Paul Oldham, Deputy Head. “The

“The aim is also to make Richmond

yurt will allow the children to be in a safe,

House School a centre for team building and outdoor pursuits”, said

dry environment, but still have access to the outdoors to enhance their learning.

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They will be immersed in a multi-sensory

Keith Senior

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COMMUNITYNOTICES ACTIVE Abbey Runners meet

Tues & Thurs, 7.30pm. Based at Holt Park Active. Track Sessions at Beckett’s Park.

New members welcome.

Details: www.abbeyrunners. co.uk

Adel Badminton Club

meets Mon, 8pm at Adel War Memorial Hall, Church Lane, LS16. A mixed & a men’s team in Leeds & District Badminton League. New members welcome. If you have some experience go along on Monday. Details:

Chris 225 9426, Dave 267 0572

Adel Squash Club meets at Adel War Memorial Hall, Church Lane, LS16. A fun/ competitive way to keep fit.

Details: Jon Hodgson 07761 608598, or for Racketball John Bennett 267 0761, www. adelsquashclub.com

Adel Tennis Club Enjoy

social or competitive tennis on 3 carpet & 2 tarmac courts. Ideally situated at AWMA sports ground next to Adel Church. All standards welcome. Junior coaching available. Details: John

Micklethwaite 267 4071

Adidas Half Marathon

Sun 15 March at Silverstone Race Track. St Gemma’s has just one place left. Experience the thrill of the racetrack & raise sponsorship for the hospice. Registration £20.

Runners are asked to raise at lease £200. Details: Becky

218 5505, beckyh@stgemma.co.uk

Badminton Anyone?

Friendly badminton club looking for experienced players. Fri 7.30 – 9.30pm, Trinity University, Horsforth.

Details: Sylvia 259 0113, Graham 258 4532

Bramhope Table Tennis Club meets Mon 8 – 10pm &

Kirkstall Abbey Tennis Club Friendly, welcoming

267 3311

Roger Harris, 07806 789580, rharris999@hotmail.co.uk

Briggate Morris Try it for free! Female

Leeds Area Disabled Swimming Club Do you

Tues 1.30 – 3.30pm, Robert Craven Hall. New members welcome. Details: Stewart

dancers from ages 8 – 80, all abilities. Practice Mon 7.30pm at Central Methodist Church, Horsforth. Details:

briggate@hotmail.co.uk

Circle Dancing Alt Thurs 3 – 4.30pm at Adel Quaker Meeting House, New Adel Lane, LS16 6AZ. No experience or partners needed. All welcome. Details: Pat 289 9626

Cookridge Rambling Club meets Sun 9.30am in car park Cookridge Village Hall. Walks 6/8 miles.

Transport can be provided.

New members welcome.

Details: Barbara 267 1522, cookridgeramblers@ outlook.com

Horsforth Tennis Club

welcomes new members for social & competitive play all year round. Details: Hillary

West 258 6021

Junior Footballers Wanted Quality players for

North East Leeds Juniors U17s for 2014-15 season.

Training & games at Scott Hall. Details: Mark Bramfitt

07970 863483, bramfitt_m@ yahoo.co.uk

Kirkstall Harriers Running Club meets

Mon & Wed, 6.50pm Kirkstall Leisure Centre.

All abilities welcome, must be able to run 3-4 miles. Events & challenges all over Yorkshire & UK.

club with reasonable membership rates. Details:

have a condition where swimming could help?

LADSC meets Mon 7.15 – 8.15pm Holt Park Active.

Safe & relaxed environment.

Details: Roger 267 4716, Paul 225 7035

Leeds Naturist Group

meets Sat, 5 – 6.30pm at Bramley Baths. Naturist swim & Russian steam bath, followed by refreshments.

Identity documents required on 1st visit. Details: www.

leedsnaturistgroup.com leedsnaturistgroup@gmail. com,

Leeds Penguins Lacrosse Club trains

Mon 7.15pm at Adel, matches Saturdays. New & experienced players welcome.

Details: leedslacrosse@ hotmail.co.uk

Leeds Softball Indoor training Wed 8 – 9.30pm at Notre Dame College, St Mark’s Ave. Softball is a fun, friendly sport. New players very welcome first session free! Details:

LeedsSoftball@gmail.com, www.LeedsSoftball.com

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

Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon Sun 11 Oct.

Looking for your next running challenge? Run the Yorkshire Marathon & raise money for St Gemma’s Hospice. They have 20 places in this run & would love you to join the team. Details: beckyh@

st-gemma.co.uk

Pudsey & District Rambling Club Walks

of 5 - 10 miles Sun & alt Thurs. Members from all around the district & new members welcome. Annual membership £8. Try before you join. Details: 01943

430657, pat_barnett@yahoo. com

Put on your Running Shoes for Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal

Limited places available in the Great North Run, Leeds Half Marathon, Yorkshire Marathon & Leeds 10K. Raising funds for cancer patients at the Bexley Wing St James’s Hospital. Details: Tif

206 8620, Tifaine.carter@ nhs.net

Row, Row, Row Your Boat! Pick up your oars &

row 10 miles (20, 21 or 27 June) or 21 miles (28 June) across Lake Windermere, whilst raising a minimum £85 sponsorship per rower for St Gemma’s Hospice. Details:

218 5296,racieh@st-gemma. co.uk

Phoenix Folk Dancers

Wed 8 – 10pm at Adel Methodist Church Hall (behind Lawnswood Arms).

English Country Dancing.

Beginners welcome & you don’t need a partner. Details:

01943 467851

Details: kirkstallharriers@ googlemail.com

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

76 Scottish Country Dancing Workshops Sat

14 Feb (28 Feb, 14 Mar, 25 Apr), 2.30 – 4.45pm Adel Methodist Church Hall, LS16.

Beginners welcome. Classes: Mon 1.45 – 3.45pm Adel Methodist Church Hall,; Tues 7.45 – 9.45pm Lidgett Pk Methodist Church LS8; Thurs 7.30 – 10pm Hawksworth Wood Primary School, LS5; Fri (children) 5.15 – 6.45pm.

Details: Irene 263 1310, glyn. cup@virginmedia.com

St Chad’s Broomfield Cricket Club The club

plays in Headingley & runs 5 senior & 5 junior teams.

Looking for new players.

Details: Paul 07795 154444, www.stchadscc.com

St Chad’s Tennis Club

Play tennis all year - fun club sessions & competitive opportunities. New members welcome. Details: Anne

Wallace 274 9917

Community Notices St Christopher’s Cycling Club Friendly club. Rides start Sun 9am from car park opposite Lawnswood Cemetery, for rides of 30-40 miles. All welcome (U-18s should be accompanied).

Details: 278 603, www. facebook.com/LSCCC

Try Korfball! Free tryouts for men & women Mon 7pm at Notre Dame College, St Marks Ave. LS2 (opp Leeds University). Details:

leedskorfball@gmail.com

ARTS & CRAFTS Bramhope Arts Club

meets Mon 7.30pm at Robert Craven Hall, Old Lane.

2 Feb: Auction of books & art equipment. 9 Feb: Watercolour demonstration

by Alison Drake ‘On my Way Home’. 16 Feb: Practical ‘A winter scene’. 23 Feb: AGM. New members welcome.

Chinese Brush Painters Society Sat 21 Feb, 10am -

Guiseley Art Club Open

Details: Anne Allan 01422 368482, mail@cbpsyorks. co.uk

Demonstration 2 March 1.30 – 4pm Methodist Church Hall, Oxford Rd, Guiseley. Paul Talbot Greaves demonstrates his trademark style of watercolour painting.

Strong contrasts of light & dark splashed, dropped & splattered onto paper.

Depicting the ever-changing moods of the moors & dales. £5 non members.

Craft Evening Every Thurs

Horsforth Art Society

4pm at Pool-in-Wharfedale Memorial Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool. AGM followed by discussion on composition in Chinese art & workshop on paper cutting led by Brian Morgan. New members most welcome.

7-9pm at The Courtyard Café 96 Town St. Horsforth Open to all. Bring your craft & have a natter. Details: 259 0301

Farsley & District Art Club Meets Mon/Wed/

Thurs for drawing & painting at the studios in Westroyd Park, New St. Farsley LS28.

meet 7.30pm at The Studio, 15 Back Lane, off Fink Hill, Horsforth. 4 Feb: Acrylic Workshop on Tropical Flowers with Carol Sorhaindo. Non members welcome. Details: 258 8496,

www.horsforthartsociety. wordpress.com

Details: www.farsleyartclub. org.uk

Details: Jeff 01423 508867

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Studio Tour On 5 Feb, artist Graeme Wilson will lead a tour of his exhibition at Manor House Museum, Ilkley, plus a visit to his studio to see his latest work, including drawings for his ecclesiastical work at St. Margaret’s Church, Ilkley. £5.

To book call 01943 600066

Life Drawing Art Group

Mon 7 – 9pm at HEART Bennett Rd. Headingley.

New members & all abilities welcome to come & draw a variety of life models. Details:

Laurence Limon 07856 735179

COFFEE MORNINGS, FAIRS & MARKETS Booksale Sat 7 Feb, 10am – 1pm at Cookridge Methodist Church. Hundreds of paperback & hardback books plus large selection of jigsaws.

Many children’s books just 20p. Refreshments.

Coffee Morning Sat 10am – 12 noon at Headingley Methodist Church, Chapel St. Headingley. Delicious homemade cakes, teas, coffees & lots of chat.

Everyone welcome.

Coffee Morning Sat 7 Feb, 10.30am – 12 noon at the Old Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel, (behind church). Enjoy homemade scones & cakes.

All welcome.

Coffee Shop Tues 10am – 12 noon at Bramhope Methodist Church. Delicious homemade scones every week. Friendly atmosphere all welcome.

Craft Fair 1st Sat, 9am

– 12.30pm at Creativities Courtyard opp Horsforth Farmers’ Market, 96a Town St. Horsforth. Details: 258

1484

Headingley Farmers’ Market 2nd Sat, 9am –

12.30pm in The Rose Garden in front of The Arc, North Lane.

Horsforth Farmers’ Market (sponsored

Horsforth Churches Together) is on Sat 7 Feb, 9.30am – 12.30pm at St Margaret’s School car park.

St John the Baptist, Adel, Coffee Morning

Sat 7 Feb, 10.30am – 12 noon in the Old Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel.

Homemade scones & cakes come & enjoy!

West Park United Reformed Church Coffee Morning (Spen

Lane) 1st Sat, 10.30am. Bacon butties & toasted tea-cakes.

All welcome

Cookridge Methodist Community Film Society 2nd Wed, 7pm at

Cookridge Methodist Church Hall (refreshments & chat 6.30pm). 11 Feb: ‘Mrs Brown’ with Judy Dench. Members enjoy 7 films for £20 or 5 for £17. Guests welcome (£4).

Details: Shirley 267 2464

Friends of Adel Woods

Friendly group looking after Adel Woods along the Meanwood Valley Trail. Monthly meetings to preserve special habitats, clear paths, put up bird & bat boxes & remove litter. All welcome. Details: 285 7136,

http://friendsofadelwoods. wordpress.com

Friends of Hunger Hills Woods meet 2nd Sat, 10am

Headingley Station Allotments West Association Want to

grow your own? This small, friendly, allotments association at Headingley Station currently has a couple of vacant plots. You don’t need to be an expert gardener. If you’re willing to try, they’re ready to help!

Details: Melvyn 07792 358611, kevinjpbray@ outlook.com

Holt Park Tenants & Residents Association

Provides a voice for residents & tenants in Holt Park area.

Regular monthly meetings at Ralph Thoresby School.

Details: rhinos4ever@ hotmail.com , www. holtparktra.btck.co.uk

on Hall Lane to carry out various practical tasks in the wood. Wear suitable clothing & gloves. Details: 258 3140,

Horsforth in Bloom

Fri, 7.15pm Adel Memorial Hall, Church Lane. Relaxed Chicago Bridge club. New members all abilities welcome. No partner needed.

Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery Action Days

258 3521

Adel Crag Community Assoc. keeps you informed

261 1363, Mike Simpson lawnswoodcemetery@ yahoo.co.uk

GROUPS/CLUBS Adel Bridge Club meets

Details: Janice 230 6387 or 07713 402405

about what’s happening in your neighbourhood. Local news, events etc. Details:

Francis Garbutt 261 0846, www.adelcrag.org.com

Adel & District Horticultural Society

meets 2nd Mon, 7.45pm at the Friends Meeting House, New Adel Lane. New members welcome. 9 Feb: Pat Inman will talk about ‘Good Doers’. Details: Mrs Tarn

Everett 261 3095

Adel Lodge meets at Castle Grove Masonic Hall Tuesday evenings. Details: David Hancox 228 0771

www.hungerhillswoods.org

1st Sat. Help tidy cemetery, under supervision of Parks & Countryside Ranger. Meet 10am in car park, Otley Rd. Tools & hot drinks provided. Details: Ann

Grace Community Church Little Snappers Toddler Group Fri 10am

– 12noon (term time) in back room at Cookridge Village Hall (Please use side door).

0-5 yr olds plus parents/ carers. Details: Zoe Smith

07920 135920

Greenpeace Leeds

meets 1st Mon, 6.30pm Wharf Chambers, Wharf St, LS2. Join growing action to protect our forests, oceans & stop climate chaos. Details:

Joe 07929 610773, www. greenpeace.org.uk/groups

meets Sat 7 Feb,10am in Horsforth Museum. Friendly group welcomes anyone interested in helping to improve Horsforth. Details:

Horsforth Duplicate Bridge Club Weds 7pm at St Margaret’s Hall & Thurs 1pm at Grove Methodist Church Hall. Good car parking & no stairs! Visitors welcome. Details: Mrs Zoe

Bent 258 1580

Horsforth Retired People’s Club meets 2nd

& 4th Thurs, 9.30 – 11am St Margaret’s Parish Centre.

Speakers & time to socialise.

Visitors & new members welcome. Details: Everett

Cooke 258 9149, Beryl Harland 258 6907

Kaleidoscope Social Club for over 50s &

unattached. Improve your social life & make new friends. Not a dating agency.

Details: 217 1747/ 267 0282, www.kaleidoscopeleeds. weebly.com

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

Community Notices

78 Kirkstall Community Garden Grow your own

food, learn new skills & share ideas with others.

All welcome. Free access to educational resources & growing facilities.

Volunteers welcome. Details:

kirkstallgarden@gmail.com

Lawnswood Bridge Club

Tues 1pm Lawnswood YMCA. Small friendly club playing Chicago. New members welcome. Details: 285 2522

Leeds Caledonian Society meets for a

Club Night on 16 Feb at The Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel. New members welcome. Details: www.

Leeds Oxfam Group

Campaigners who have raised thousands of pounds over the past year. All welcome to join their programme of interesting & informative events. Details: www.

oxfamleeds.org.uk & facebook

Leeds Photographic Society meets Tues, 7.30pm St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Park Rd, LS8. New members welcome. Details:

www.lps1852.co.uk

Meanwood Valley Partnership Local people helping to preserve, protect & enhance the Meanwood Valley. Details: www.mean

leedscaledonians.org.uk

woodvalleypartnership.co.uk

Leeds Cat Rescue

National Vegetable Society meets 10 Feb, 8pm

rehabilitate lost, neglected cats & kittens. If you can offer a cat a home, contact them. Details: 268 0488,

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

at Paxton Horticultural Hall, 186 Kirkstall Ln, Headingley LS5. John Smiles FNVS will give an illustrated talk on ‘A Year Under Glass’. Free - all welcome.

Leeds Horticultural Society meets 1st Tues,

North Leeds History Group Tudor Turmoil &

8pm St Chad’s Centre, Otley Rd. Annual membership £12 single/ £18 couple. Details:

Pat 225 0030, www.leedshs. org.uk

Leeds Hospital Alert

Small group campaigning for preservation of NHS. Meets Thurs 5 Feb, Thurs 5 March at Muir Court, St Michael’s Rd. LS6. Details: 278 5495,

info@leedshospitalalert. org.uk

Leeds National Trust Association programme

continues with monthly talks on 10 Feb & 10 March, & a fish & chip lunch with holiday photos on 30 March – all at St. Chad’s Parish Centre, Otley Rd. Far Headingley.

New members welcome (£8pa). Details: 01924

892681cmsherborne@ btopenworld.com

Triumph. Join them for a year long course of Tudor history.

This informal group meets at Moor Allerton Library on Mon, 1 – 3pm (Oct – Apr). £2 including tea/coffee & biscuits. Details: 225 6405

Pool Bridge Club meets Mon, 1.15pm at Pool -inWharfedale Methodist Church (blue door on Manor Gns off Main St.). Relaxed Chicago bridge. No partner needed. New members all abilities welcome. Details Chris 284 3069

Robert Craven Bridge Club meets Fri, 7 – 10pm,

Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane, Bramhope.

New members welcome.

Tuition available for at least four players. Details: Ewart

267 8001

The Other Bridge Club

Friendly bridge played Thurs 7.15 – 10.15pm Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Bramhope.

New members welcome.

Details: Sandra 01943 463332

West Yorkshire Fuchsia Society meets 3rd Wed,

7.30pm at Moorside Tenants & Residents Community Centre, St Catherine’s Dr. Bramley LS13. Varied programme. 18 Feb: Pat Inman talks about ‘Plants that Earn Their Keep’. £6 /£5 on door.

Yorkshire Animal Shelter Many cats &

kittens desperate for new homes! Donations welcome.

Details: 07968 817803, www. yorkshireanimalshelter.org. uk

Yorkshire Flower Club

Meets 18 Feb, 2pm at Almscliffe Village Hall, Huby LS17 6EG. Practice ‘Highs & Lows’. Visitors welcome.

Details: 267 1886

MUSIC The Amici Singers

friendly mixed voice choir with no auditions, rehearses Thurs, 7pm Adel Methodist Church. New members, experienced or beginners, welcome. Details: Elizabeth

King 228 5932

Cookridge Primary Intergenerational Choir

of children & older members of the community meets Mon 3 – 4pm at the school.

Singing modern & traditional songs. Looking for more adults! Details: Debbie

Fletcher 386 2500

Fairfax Singers (Burleyin-Wharfedale) have vacancies for an alto & a tenor. Now taking bookings for 2015 fundraising concerts for charities & good causes.

Bookings for weddings too.

Details: 01274 597024 www. fairfaxsingers.org.uk

Flossie Malavialle Fri 13

Feb, 7.30pm at Manor House Museum, Ilkley. Performing a wide repertoire including favourites from the likes of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Kris Kristofferson & Frank Sinatra. Tickets £12 (incl glass of wine) available from Liz Bowen 01943 609393

Horsforth Choral Society Mixed voice choir

(Musical Director, Kathryn Woodruff). Rehearsals Mon, 7.30pm in St Margaret’s Parish Centre, for concert on 24 March - Dvorak’s Stabat Mater & other music for Lent. Details: 07958 782348

Horsforth Leeds City Brass Band Friendly,

community band welcomes new players. Rehearsals: Mon 7.30 – 9.30pm Leeds Trinity UC, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth. Details: Betty

Emberton 267 6529

Instrumental Jazz Workshop alt Sat 2.30

- 4.30pm at Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Rd. LS7.

Play jazz & improvise.

Enjoyable, supportive atmosphere. £10/£8 per class. Details: Jean Watson

jeanwatsonlifeskills@ hotmail.com

James Farrell Concert Band rehearses Tues 7.45 –

10pm at Dewsbury Rd Social Club. Friendly community band playing show/film music, marches & more. New players welcome. Details: 293

1779, www.jfconcertband. com

Jazz Improvisation Group meets alt Fri, 7.30

-10pm in Chapel Allerton Methodist Centre, Town St. Play jazz to your heart’s content. £5. Details:

dominicgmoore@hotmail. com

Leeds All For One Choir meets Mon, 7.30 - 9.30pm in Mary Hallaway Lecture Hall, Leeds Trinity Campus, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth.

Part of growing network of choirs singing rock, pop & gospel. Everyone welcome.

Book a taster session at maria.mullin@allforonechoir. com, www.allforonechoir. com

Leeds Music Club

meets every 2 or 3 weeks, 7.30pm in Adel Methodist Church Hall. Established in 1932, the group aims to promote the performance of music by & amongst its members. Details: Dawn

Lloyd 01924 252329, www. theleedsmusicclub.org

Leeds People’s Choir

meets Wed 7.30 – 9.30pm (term time) Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Sq. Leeds. Songs from around the world, under direction of Lorraine Cowburn. Ability

to read music useful. New members welcome. Details:

www.leedspeopleschoir. org.uk

Meanwood Ukulele Club Meets Wed 2 – 3.30pm in Meanwood Institute, Green Road, LS6. Mixed ability group strums & sings wide variety of popular songs, & performs occasionally.

Membership £5 per week (paid each 8 weeks) or £6 per drop in session. Details:

Jessica Bowie: 07815 892415 jessica@yourukuleletutor. com

Phoenix Concert Band Rehearsals Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm The Grammar School at Leeds (Grade 6+ level) Details: secretary@

phoenixband.co.uk, www. phoenixband.co.uk

Seven Jazz Voices Choir meets alt Mon 7-9pm at Inkwell 31 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton LS7.

Fun blues, jazz, cuban & gospel numbers, led by singer Nicki Allan. £5.

Details: Jean Watson jeanwatsonlifeskills@ hotmail.com

Singing Mums Tues

(term time) 10 - 11am at St Paul’s Church Ireland Wood. Fun, friendly singing group for Mums to enjoy with their babies. £5 per session if booking term/£6 drop in. Details: georgina.

lashbrook@hotmail.com or Facebook.com/singingmums

Songbirds Choir meets Wed, 7.30 – 9.30pm at Yorkshire College of Music & Drama, St Mark’s Ave, LS2.

Singing songs from classical to pop. Ability to read music preferable. Details: Tracy 07914 833394

Wharfedale Male Voice Choir Meets Mon 2 – 4pm

in Catholic Hall, Bradford Rd, Burley-in-Wharfedale.

Friendly choir. New members welcome. No audition, just sing for pleasure & occasional concerts. Details: 01943

863177

Yorkshire Late Starter Strings (YLSS) rehearse

Sat, 10am – 12.30pm.

Friendly, informal orchestra of adult learners. All abilities welcome. Specific beginners group. Details: www.ylss.org

Yorkshire Clarinet Ensemble Rehearses

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

Pennington 07910 414586, mpenn.dpenn@ntlworld.com

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Trinity Church, Meanwood.

Cost £5. Details: Anne

SENIORS

Matthews 268 1131

Cookridge Luncheon Club meets Wed, 12 –

1.30pm Cookridge Methodist Church, Tinshill Rd. Good food, good company. £4.50.

Details: 267 5510

Lively Singing Group for people with dementia & their carers. 2nd Wed of month 10 – 11.30am at Horsforth Live at Home Scheme, Town St. £1 incl refreshments.

Details: Alzheimer’s Soc 231 1727, Horsforth Live at Home 259 1511

Luncheon Club for Over

60s meets Tues, 12 noon Headingley Methodist Church Hall, Church St. New members welcome. 2-course hot meal £4. Please book.

Details: 275 5615, 275 1592

Meanwood Luncheon Club meets Thurs, 12.15pm in the Parochial Hall, Holy

RVS MENA Community Café Fri am Meanwood

Community Centre. Activities include Tai Chi, tea & dance, knit & sew, & soon walking & poetry clubs. Currently seeking volunteer walkers to support group. Details: Gina

or Sarah 887 3596

OPAL (Older People’s

Action in the Locality) supports over 60s in Cookridge, Ireland Wood, Tinshill, Holt Park, Adel & Bramhope. Activities include exercise classes, coffee afternoons, luncheon club, shopping trips & drop-in.

Details: 261 9103

OWLS (Older Wiser Local Seniors) provides activities for seniors in Headingley, Burley, Little Woodhouse & parts of Kirkstall.

Membership free to 60+.

Details: 369 7077, infoowls@ gmail.com

Sequence Tea Dancing Mon 2 - 4pm at Bramhope Methodist Church. You don’t need a partner, just enthusiasm! Refreshments & raffle prizes. Details:

Marjorie 267 9802.

St Chad’s Lunch Club

Weds 12 - 1.30pm St Chad’s Parish Centre. Tasty 2-course meal & good company £4.50.

Open to all of retirement age close to St Chad’s. Transport provided. Details: Anne 274

9917, Claire 275 2917

St Giles Bramhope Luncheon Club Delicious home-cooked meal just £4.

Details: Mary Burnell 267 1742

Hill, LS16 5BG. Activities & outings for people over 60 in West Park & Far Headingley. Details: 275

7988, www.stepleeds.org.uk step.2.step@btconnect.com

Willows Tuesday Club

Fink Hill, Horsforth. 1.45 – 3.45pm. Friendly group for over 60s. Various activities, & outings. Mini bus available in Horsforth. Don’t feel lonely, join them! Details: Jean 258

3449

SPIRITUAL Adel Baptist Congregation Sunday

services 10.30am Adel Primary School, Tile lane, LS16. Informal with mixture of contemporary & traditional songs. Variety of daytime & evening groups. Details: 275

4989

STEP (Supporting The Elderly People) based at St Andrew’s Church, Butcher

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Adel Methodist Church

(corner Holt Lane/ Gainsborough Ave). Sunday Services 10.30am, incl Junior Church.

Bramhope Methodist Church Sundays Services:

10am Morning Worship.

Prayer Breakfast 2nd Sun 8.30am. Alive@9 on 4th Sunday, informal worship for young families. Evening Communion 4th Thurs 8pm.

Morning Communion 2nd Tues.

Buddhist Meditation Classes 7.30 - 9.30pm in

Oakwood (Tue), Leeds City Centre (Wed) & Horsforth (Thur). Details: 265 2118,

info@meditationinleeds.org, www.meditationinleeds.org

Catholic Churches Holy Name, Otley Old Rd

(267 8257); Saint Mary’s, Broadgate Lane, Horsforth (258 2607); The Assumption,

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Spen Lane. Parish Priest: Fr PA Smythe, Assistant Priest: Fr. Marc Homsey. www.

ourladyofkirkstall.org.uk

Cookridge Methodist Church 10.30am

Morning Worship. All ages welcome. Crèche facilities & refreshments. 1st Sun of month: Family Parade Service - informal, friendly worship for all ages.

Drop in Group Meditation (free) Sun

7- 8pm (except 3rd Sun: 6.30 – 7.30pm) Experience peace & calm with periods of silence & guided meditations.

Brahma Kumaris, West Park.

Details: 275 7727, leeds@ uk.brahmakumaris.org, www. brahmakumaris.org/uk/ leeds

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Group meets Mon, 7.30 - 9.30pm at The Friends Meeting House, 136 Street

Lane, Roundhay LS8. £3 - £5 suggested donation.

All welcome. Details:

07884 332644, www. peacenowhere.com

Headingley Methodist Church Sunday Service

9.30am. Short Mid-Week Service Thurs 10.30am.

Entrance in Chapel St. All welcome.

Headingley St. Columba United Reformed Church 70 Headingley

Lane. Sunday service 10.45am. Details: www.

headingleystcolumba.org. uk/

holytrinitymeanwood.org.uk

Learn to meditate FWBO Leeds Buddhist Centre.

Contemporary approach to meditation, mindfulness & the Buddhist tradition.

Classes in yoga, chronic pain & stress management.

Details: 244 5256, www. leedsbuddhistcentre.org

Leeds Reformed Baptist Church Sunday

services 10:30am & 6pm.

Activities through week at 20 Cottage Rd, incl. pre-school, children’s clubs, toddlers & various other groups. Details:

275 8996, www.leedsrbc.org

Holy Trinity Meanwood Sun 8.30am Said Holy Communion (call or see website for venue); 10am Sung Eucharist; 11.30am Gather (relaxed cafe style).

2nd Weds 10am Holy Communion. All Welcome.

Details: 275 7885, www.

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82 Leeds Theosophical Society 2.30pm at 12 Queen

Sq. LS2 8AJ. 1 Feb: ‘Death & Beyond’ - Tim Wyatt (Web of Ageless Wisdom); 8 Feb: Meditation & talk ‘Eastern & Western Self Realisation’ - Satguru Sri Ramana Devi; 15 Feb: ‘The Hidden Memory of Water’ - Chad Manian; 22 Feb: ‘Cycles of Eternity - Tim Wyatt. Details: www.ts-leeds.

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Leeds Vineyard meets Sundays at Headingley Methodist Church, LS6 3HZ.10.45am for coffee, 11am start – all welcome. Details: 245 9111, www.leedsvineyard. org

Meanwood Valley Baptist Church

Meanwood Community Centre, Stainbeck Ave. Sunday service 11am, coffee 10.30am. Details: 275 7215,

www.mvbc.org.uk

Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel (City Sq Leeds)

Sunday Services 10.45am; Contemplative service 6pm; Mid-week Recharge Wed 1.15pm - a half-hour reflection. A space of spiritual enquiry - sanctuary for the soul

Our Lady of Lourdes Church 130 Cardigan Rd,

LS6 Sunday Mass 8.45am; Fri Holy Hour with Mass 7pm. Details: 225 9751 www.

dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Community Notices Quaker Meeting for Worship & Children’s Meeting Sun 10.45am

Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2 & Friends’ Meeting House, New Adel Lane LS16 6AN Details:

www.leedsquakers.org.uk

South Parade Baptist Church, North Lane,

Headingley. Lively services Sunday 10.30am (+ Junior Church) & 6.30pm.

St. Augustine’s Church

(Wrangthorn), Hyde Park Corner Sun Service 10.30am - Holy Communion 2nd, 4th & 5th Sun. Altogether Family Service 3rd Sun & Service of the Word 1st Sun. Service of quiet reflection, readings & prayer every Sun 6.30pm.

Everyone welcome. Details:

www.wrangthorn.org.com

St Chad’s Far Headingley Sunday Services 8am (1st, 3rd,

5th Sun), 9.30am & 6.30pm.

Parish Praise (worship for all ages) 2nd Sun, 9.30am.

Warm welcome for all. Mid week services too. Details:

Parish Office 274 4322, www. stchads.co.uk

St John the Baptist,

Church Lane, Adel Sunday Services: 8am, 10am & 6.30pm. Also Wed at 11am.

Junior Church every Sunday (ex 3rd Sun) All-age Service.

All welcome.

St Luke’s Lutheran Church Alma Rd,

Headingley. Worship Sun 10.30am, followed by refreshments. All welcome.

St Michael & All Angels Headingley Parish Church Services: Wed 10.30am

Communion Service; Thurs 8am Communion Service; 2nd & 4th Sun 8am Communion Service; Sun Parish Communion 10am; Communion Service 12.30pm; Evensong 6.30pm.

All welcome. Details: www.st-

michaels-headingley.org.uk

St Urban’s Catholic Church Grove Lane, LS6.

Mass times: Sun 10.30am; Mon – Fri 9.15am; Tues Mass Rosary Benediction 7pm; Sat 11am Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, 12noon Mass, 6pm (Sun Vigil). Details: 225

9751 www.dioceseofleeds. org.uk

Tinshill Free Church

(corner Holly Ave & Tinshill Lane, Cookridge) Sunday services: 10:30am & 6:30pm.

Children’s clubs, tots, bible studies & more throughout week. Details: Joseph

Cresswell, 267 8250, www. tinshillfreechurch.org.uk/

Transmission Meditation Free group

meditation providing both a dynamic spiritual service & profound spiritual development. Leeds group meets Fri 8pm in Headingley

area. Details: 270 1173/ 01924 252728, www.shareinternational.org

West Park United Reformed Church, Spen

Lane. Sunday Worship 10.30am with crèche.

Communion 1st Sun. All welcome. Babies & Toddler Group Tues 10 – 11.30am.

Drinks & biscuits 50p.

Details: 278 5373

SUPPORT Arthritis Care meets 3rd Tues, 7.30 – 9pm, St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley. New members welcome. Details: Pat 275 7694

Dementia Café 2nd Mon,

1.30 - 3pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre. Chance to talk to people who are living with dementia. £1. Details: The

Alzheimer’s Society 231 1727

Headingley Mindfulness Group Meet 2nd Mon, 7 – 9pm. Support group welcomes people interested in mindfulness meditation practice for stress reduction (MBSR). Details: Geraldine

01943 873843/ 07740 649082

IBS Leeds Friendly, informal monthly meetings for fellow sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Details: matt@ letscureibs.com, www. letscureibs.com

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offers support & advice to those diagnosed with Coeliac disease. Mon 23 Feb: Glutenfree baking demonstration

by Rebecca Rayner of Glebe Farm, 7pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Otley Rd, LS16. Details: Sandra

McLean 07711 768850, sandra.mclean@btinternet. com

Leeds Multiple Sclerosis Society uses

Armley Leisure Centre for activity classes (transport available). MS Chat every two weeks. Over 300 members.

New members welcome.

Details: 07895 515471

Leeds Samaritans

Confidential, nonjudgemental support 24 hours for those experiencing distress or despair. They listen for as long as you need.

Details: 245 6789, 08457 909090

Leeds Weekend Care Association (LWCA)

Respite care for families with children with complex care needs via weekend playgroups, trips for teens & one-to-one home-based care.

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

Little Hiccups Outreach

is a support network for children with a disability & their families. Run by parents. Details: 07831

Supportive, friendly & informative self-help group of people copIng with this devastating illness. Also offers expert speakers & signposting to other agencies.

Details: panpalsyorks@ yahoo.co.uk

Parkinson’s UK meet 2nd

Wed, 2pm St Chad ‘s Parish Centre, Headingley. Exercise classes in Otley, Horsforth, Moortown. Details: Linda

Thompson, 01943 461640

230741, outreach@ littlehiccups.co.uk, www. littlehiccups.co.uk

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)

Open Door Café For

people with dementia & their carers. Last Mon of month (ex bank hols), 2-4pm, New Headingley Club, St Michael’s Rd. Details: 231 1727

Panpals - Yorkshire Pancreatic Cancer Support Group meet

quarterly in Headingley.

Support group meets 2nd Wed, 2pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley.

Details: Pam Bower 258 8143

SNAPS (Special Needs &

Parent Support) welcomes families of children with special needs to Sat support group at Penny Field School, Tongue Ln. Meanwood.

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Wharfedale General Hospital Cardiac Club

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Mon/ Wed/Thurs. £3.

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Dialect in the Museum

Fri 13 Feb, 12.30 – 1.30pm, Leeds Town Hall. Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture is an exciting collection relating to English dialect & folk life. Hear how LAVC is breathing new life into this archive by teaming up with Yorkshire museums & inviting visitors to help them dig for dialect. Free. Reserve

your place via 247 6419, arts@leeds.gov.uk

Forum 2000 Talks

Wed 10am, Grove Centre, New St, Horsforth. 4 Feb: Alan Simson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, ‘Shaping the Urban Landscape’. 11Feb: Geoff Cope remembers his career in ‘England & Yorkshire Cricketer’. 18 Feb: Sally Joynson on ‘Screen Yorkshire’. 25 Feb: Peter Rix on ‘Barnes Wallis, Engineer’.

Details: Hilary Taylor 258 3521, hm.taylor1@ntlworld. com

Leeds DFAS (Decorative & Fine Arts Society) meets Sat 28 Feb, 1.45pm at Castle Grove Masonic Hall, Moor Rd, Headingley LS6 4BP for a talk on The Bayeux Tapestry by Eveline Eaton.

Guests welcome £5. Details

& booking: 261 1363, news@ leedsdfas.org.uk

Leeds Astronomical Society 2nd Wed. Guest

speaker & regular telescope nights at Friends Meeting House, Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Visitors welcome. Details: info@

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

Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society Thurs

19 Feb, 7.30pm in the Music Department, University of Leeds. Talk on Firework Displays by Dr Tom Smith (formerly of Kimbolton Fireworks). All welcome.

Details: www.leedsphilandlit. org.uk/events.html

Leeds RSPB Group

meets Wed 18 Feb, 7.30pm at Friends Meeting House,

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188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2, for an illustrated talk

by Geoff Trinder on ‘The Wildlife of the Galapagos’, featuring marine iguanas, giant tortoises & Darwin’s finches. Details: rspbleeds@

googlemail.com

Royal Meteorological Society Yorkshire Centre Monthly informal

public talks on all aspects of weather & climate at the School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds. 17 Feb: National Rail & Weather Impacts. 11 March: Methane the Unnatural Gas. Free & open to all. Details:

http://tinyurl.com/rmetsyc, rmetsoc_yorkshire@hotmail. co.uk

Thackray Medical Museum Lecture Series

Guest speakers from the world of health & medicine.

7 Feb, 10am: ‘Selling a Smile: How Companies Sold Teeth to the British’ - Dr Claire Jones, Research Associate, King’s College London; & ‘The Endocrinology of Sex...& Pope Joan’ - Prof Paul

Stewart, Dean of Medicine, University of Leeds. Details:

244 4343, www.thackrayme dicalmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/

Think You Know Yorkshire? Series of

lectures by Mark Saville running Jan – March, 10am – 12 noon at Leeds City College, Armley. Details: 258 4680,

marksaville@btconnect.com

U3A Leeds has over 24 interest groups held in various locations. Fortnightly Tues talks, 2pm at Moor Allerton Sports & Social Club, Stonegate Rd, LS17.

Details: 07752 448834, www. u3aleeds.org.uk

Weetwood Residents’ Association Café Philosophique Thurs

19 Feb, 7.30pm The Sports Pavilion, Richmond House School’s Playing Fields, Glen Rd. ‘Rights, Privileges, & Responsibilities.’ Gerald Lang seeks a balance.

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WOMEN’S GROUPS Adel Ladies Luncheon Club meets 1st Wed at Castle Grove Masonic Hall, Castle Grove Dr. LS6. 4 Feb: ‘Polar Bears: The Big Gathering’

by Tony Smailes. 4 March: ‘The Villas & Gardens of Lake Como’ by Keith Holmes.

Details: Mrs Muriel Huntley 230 1584

Bramhope Rolling Scones WI New Women’s

Institute meets 1st Thurs, 7.30 – 9.30pm St Giles Church Hall. Make new friends, learn new skills & have a good old chin-wag!

Visitors welcome. Details: Jill

07984 287803

Cookridge WI Lively, mixed age group meets 1st Tues, 7.30pm Holy Trinity C of E School, Green Lane.

Various activities, talks & outings. Everyone welcome.

Yorkshire Countrywomen’s Association 2nd Thurs,

1.30pm Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Bramhope.

New members welcome.

Details: Kirstie Lewis 07754 344370

Cookridge Amateur Dramatic Society

Meeting Rooms for Hire Paxton Horticultural

presents ‘Jack & the Beanstalk’ Wed 18 – Fri 20 Feb at 7.30pm, with matinee performances at 2.30pm on Sat 14 & 21, at Cookridge Village Hall, Green Lane, LS16. Tickets £6/£5 available on door.

Society, 186 Kirkstall Lane, LS5 2AB. One large hall & 2 smaller rooms. Can be hired separately or opened up into one large hall. Private parking, disabled facilities, well equipped kitchen. Ideal for business training. Details:

Hope Pastures Community Action Days (corner of Ring Rd

Psychic Day at Hope Pastures Sat 31 Jan, 12 –

& Weetwood Lane) Sat 31 Jan & 28 Feb, 10am – 2pm.

Volunteers needed to help with regular maintenance jobs. They even ply you with tea/coffee! Details: kim@

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Horsforth WI meets

Hope Pastures Pony Days Mon 16 & Thurs 19

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Leeds Ladies Coffee Club meets 1st Thurs.

10.15am at Leeds Church Institute, New Market St. Leeds (next to Samuel Taylor’s). £3. Friendly group supports local charities. 5 Feb: ‘Barnbow in the 2nd World War’ with Carole Smithies MBE. New members welcome. Details: Joan

McShane 225 1166

University of Leeds Ladies’ Club welcomes

women connected to the university as either serving or former staff members, partners of staff, or graduates. Regular events.

Details: www.universityof leedsladiesclub.co.uk/

Soroptimist International Meet 2nd

Mon, 7pm Weetwood Hall.

All ladies welcome. Details:

www.sigbi.org/leeds

Cookridge Hall Health & Fitness Club, Cookridge Lane, LS16. Teams of no more than 6. £5 per person. Raffle.

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monthly, 7.30pm in St. James’ Parish Centre, Low Lane, Horsforth. Visitors welcome. Details: Pat 258

Macmillan Mammoth Quiz Fri 27 Feb, 7pm at

Feb, 10am – 3pm. Children learn how to care for ponies under expert supervision. The emphasis is on fun, building confidence & skills. Includes leading & grooming, feeding & mucking out, quizzes, games & pony puzzles. £26. Details: karen@

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Hope Pastures Pony One-to-Ones Wed 18 Feb,

10am – 12 noon. Tours & fun activities for the family.

Meet the ponies & spend time grooming them. Visitor centre open for refreshments. £3pp if you wish to groom – the fun is free! Details:

karen@hopepastures.org

Jenny’s Valentine Quiz Sat 14 Feb, 6.30pm in the Old Stables, Back Church Lane. Sausage & Mash supper. Tickets £8/ £4.

Details:Sylvia Halliday 267 1708

Kath’s Bingo! Fri, 8pm at Meanwood Club, Stonegate Rd (opp Aldi). Friendly social event raising vital funds for the Children’s Air Ambulance. Cash prizes & raffle. Free adm. Details:

Kath 294 6510

Doreen Sergent 266 5237

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I’m very pleased with the response from my advert and would be happy to keep running until further notice.

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Over 30 years experience Quality service Associated property maintenance Coving & dado rails fitted Free estimates Horsforth based Phone: 0113 258 6143 Mob: 07921 000 151

No VAT

ELECTRICIANS

DH Electrical

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TEL: 07742 923 643 Cookridge Based

FURNITURE RESTORATION Upholstery, Repairs & French Polishing

0113 267 5483 Abbey Upholstery, 7 Carr Bridge Ave, Cookridge, Leeds, LS16 7JZ Reupholstery specialists.

Parker Knoll, Cintique, Ercol, Bridgecraft and all other good quality furniture.

From a small dining chair repair to a full suite re-upholstery. Sentimental items welcome.

+Replacement Foam Cushions Service Reupholstery and French Polishing Specialists.

Parker Knoll, Cintique, Ercol, Bridgecraft, Vale, G-Plan, MultiYork and all other good quality furniture.

From a small dining chair repair to a full suite re-upholstery.

Sentimental items welcome.

Examples of local work we did recently.

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GATES & RAILINGS

GARDENERS

KITCHENS

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HANDYMAN

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Why spend £1000s when you can renew your doors, tiles, handles, worktops and appliances, saving you over 40%, without compromising on quality or choice?

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Andy Abbey • Home & Garden Services For all those jobs you never get around to, or don’t know who to get to do them!

• From fitting a small shelf to a new kitchen • Jet washing your patio or painting • Gardening • Or even a helping hand with something heavy Charged by the hour not the job, so no hidden costs!

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FREE QUOTES on all aspects of internal and external plastering: skimming, boarding & rendering. Patching and repair work also delivered.

• City & Guilds qualified • Clean and tidy work guaranteed • 18 years experience BEFORE

AFTER

Clairvoyant, Tarot Reader & Crystals Member of the Psychic Circle BAPTA Accredited Tel: 0113 224 9720 Vesper Road, Kirkstall, Leeds

Contact Dave Franks on

0113 274 1048 or 07796 381 346 Visit website for customer testimonials: www.franksplastering.com

MOBILITY

S . NICHOLLS PLASTERING • All aspects of 35 plastering experyieears nce • All types of NO JOB T OO SMA rendering LL including colour rendering • Patching & repairs • Re-skimming to walls & ceilings • Clean and tidy workmanship

Contact: 07940 119 081 0113 443 8534

Friendly Plastering Service Always a quality finish. 16 years experience.

• Skimming • Patching • Plasterboarding • Damp solutions • Skim over Artex • Making good water damage For a free quote ring Jim or Calum on 07803181472 07901734390 01132950920

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Tel: 0113 3204 455 / 07973 600 250

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GPS Plumbing & Heating WRAS & bpec unvented certified

• All plumbing work undertaken • Discounts for OAPs • Free 24 hour call out service

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Call Alex 07730 560 422

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ROOFERS

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ROOFING CONTRACTORS

A FAMILY BUSINESS 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE

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0113 294 6383 / 0790 562 5512

Roofing Contractors • • • • •

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SOLICITORS

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Oakwood Travel Ltd Est. over 25 years

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Ticket agents for National Rail, National Express, Theatre and IATA Airtickets Independent agents offering customer service & choice T: 0113 240 0419 • E: oakwoodtravel@btopenworld.com 480 Roundhay Road, Leeds LS8 2HU

WORKTOPS

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Waitrose

Open Mon - Fri 8.30 - 5.00, Sat 10.00 - 2.00 Providence House, Authorpe Road, Meanwood LS6 4JB

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North Leeds Life always delivers the best results.

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