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BHF’S TESTING HALF MARATHON AT HAREWOOD HOUSE Although posted and promoted as a halfmarathon, British Heart Foundation’s inaugural fundraising event at Harewood House on 8 February had a surprise in store for some of the participants. Yes it was run over the expected thirteen miles. But those thirteen miles were over undulating
The event benefited from BHF’s slick organisational skills.
BHF is a regular organiser of sponsored events such as this, and their inaugural event at Harewood was as slick an operation as might be expected. An invitation has already been extended for runners and fundraisers to register their interest in the 2016 repeat event (again in February, though date TBC) - bhf.org.uk/harewood
Second-placed Darran Bilton of Leeds City AC was the highest placed local club runner, finishing with a time of 1.25.42 – creditable, though over two minutes behind Trawden AC’s Chris Singleton. But the fundraising event wasn’t targeted only at committed and experienced runners. Many participants finished in three hours or more.
BHF mascot Artie Beat was in attendance, though had decided to give the course a miss...
countryside, farmland and country footpaths rather than on roads and pavements. So, even more hats off to the 819 runners who completed the course. With funds still coming in, the total amount raised has yet to be announced. 6 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
Readers interested in participating in another local though shorter event might consider running this year’s “Over the Odda”, a ten kilometres (six miles) cross-country run now in its third year and raising funds for Hawksworth C of E School. Full details of Over the Odda 10k are easy to find on Facebook and bookitzone.com
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BUYING LOCAL AND SEASONAL - HONEY Honey bees start foraging when the temperature hits 12 degrees. Having enjoyed isolated short spells with the temperature in double figures in January and February, this year’s honey production may well be underway by the time this March issue of Suburban finishes distribution. So we asked Calverley beekeepers Anne Taylor and Paul Lawrence (pictured) for some expert tips. Paul; “Honey doesn’t mature, improve or deteriorate with time. Honey found in the tombs of the Pharaohs is as fresh today as it was thousands of years ago. What makes a real difference is the environment in which the bees gather the pollen – the crops. Early spring production depends on ivy and early flowers such as crocus
and snowdrops. Spring honeys should be eaten raw. Use them instead of sugar. I particularly enjoy mine on porridge”. “One of my own favourites later in the year, and one very popular with our customers, is heather. There’s not a lot of heather in the Calverley area - nor in Rodley or Kirkstall, where we also keep bees. So, last year, I took a couple of hives to Ilkley Moor and left them there for a few months. Whether we repeat that exercise this year, or try another, remains to be decided.” Paul and his associates stand at local farmers’ markets and summer shows. They also offer
Have hive will travel - Calverley beekeepers Anne Taylor and Paul Lawrence stand at local farmers’ markets and summer shows; “Spring honeys are best enjoyed raw”. Anne is holding a flagon of their mead. It won second prize in its class at the 2014 Leeds Horticultural Show. Paul is holding some of his Ilkley Moor heather honey – its production involved the temporary relocation of two of his hives.
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LEEDS GOING GREENER IN STOURTON The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) is an environmentally aware organisation which can trace its roots directly back to 1959, when the government created and funded the Conservation Corps. In their early days they were a nationwide body of volunteers dedicated to practical conservation work clearing and replanting parts of nature reserves and the like. In 2012, after fifty years of refinement and rebranding, the organisation adopted its present name – TCV. Now, supporting 2000 community groups nationwide, their purpose remains helping communities regain green Skelton Grange goes full circle. TCV is supported nationwide by the government, National Lottery and National Grid. The grid supplies land next to sub-stations to be put to green use. Skelton Grange is in the shadow of their Stourton sub-station (pictured) – which until 1990 was next door to a coal fired power station.
Some of the Skelton Grange weekly volunteer “Green Team” in action one Friday in January.
spaces. But, during those fifty years, their remit had become far wider than just recruiting and directing volunteer labour. Now they see green spaces not only as pretty places for plants and wildlife and recreation for people, but also as “classrooms, gyms, playgrounds and sanctuaries” and incorporating environmentally friendly practices and processes wherever they can. Of TCV’s five “green hubs” (with permanent facilities) in England, two are in Leeds. One is Hollybush Conservation Centre in Kirkstall and the other is Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton which, since 1992, has used the environment to provide education, job skills, exercise and recreation to people of all ages and ability. We visited Skelton Grange on one Friday in January when
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one of their regular volunteer groups, “the Green Team” was busy clearing hedgerows on part of the ten acre site. Apart from regular classes and volunteer days, the Skelton Grange also offers a wide range of one-off activities, events and courses. The extensive programme for March and April includes sessions as diverse as environmental games, lino printing, spring wild food walk (and gourmet meal) and bushcraft for 8-12 year olds. They also offer tailor-made courses and activities for schools, communities and workplaces. Full details of TCV and links to Hollybush and Skelton Grange green hubs can be found on tcv.org.uk – the links to the two centres’ Facebook pages gives the most up to date news. The contact for Skelton Grange enquiries is Toby Roberts on 0113 2430815.
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PUT SOMETHING BACK INTO YOUR COMMUNITY Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust has volunteer Community First Responders (CFRs) who provide immediate life-saving care to members of their local communities in an emergency medical situation, such as cardiac arrest, in the vital minutes before the ambulance arrives. They are trained in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) which delivers a controlled electric shock to restart the heart. CFRs also carry portable oxygen. CFRs make a valuable contribution to their
communities. In many medical emergencies the first few minutes are critical and if effective treatment can be performed within that time, lives can be saved and disability reduced. Volunteers come from all walks of life. Many volunteer as a CFR to gain experience, to help their local communities and some people have had personal experience of a loved one needing prompt medical attention and can see the value in this initiative.
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struggled since last year and I honestly feel that during the good times a minority perhaps didn’t focus on customer care as much as they should have done. We make sure we turn up when we say we will, do the job the customer requires and leave their house as clean as a whistle. I often get comments back from customers on how they really didn’t expect that sort of service which, in a way, is very said for the service industry as a whole.’ Cloudy2Clear service the Alwoodley, Shadwell, Moortown, Chapel Allerton, Roundhay and Oakwood areas and Joel is finding that his approach is a major factor in his success. ‘The truth is that it’s not just the personal
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NEW CENTRE FOR LS8 The Kerala Ayurveda Centre has announced the opening of their new premises at the Lodge Medical Centre on Grange Park Avenue, Leeds bringing its traditional style of Kerala Ayurveda treatment to Yorkshire. Established in Leicester in 2009, the Kerala Ayurveda Centre is expanding its operation in Yorkshire to cope with increasing demand for its complementary treatments. The Kerala Ayurveda Centre now has four treatment centres in the UK and plans to build on their success and further expand, as demand for Ayurveda continues to grow in the UK. Sarju Raikundalia, Director and Founder of The Kerala Ayurveda Centre said: “This is an exciting time for Ayurveda in the UK with the launch of our third centre here in Leeds and the growing reputation of this style of complementary treatment. We have received great support from the local community and we’re forging links with GPs and pharmacies, to work together to demonstrate the benefits to
those who may not have heard or tried Ayurveda before.” Sarju Raikundalia first encountered Ayurveda after exhausting conventional treatment for whiplash following a car accident. Initially dismissive of his mum’s recommendation that he try Ayurveda, Sarju was astounded by the results and went on to travel to India to find out more about the practice of Ayurveda and its health benefits. Years later, Sarju founded the first Kerala Ayurveda Centre in Leicester to bring his own unique brand of authentic Kerala Ayurveda to the UK. Now with premises in Leicester, Bolton, Walsall and Leeds, the Kerala Ayurveda Centre’s team of fully
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OLLY THE OWL Brian Firth, a retired businessman from Guiseley currently volunteering as a Community First Responder with Yorkshire Ambulance Service, shares his story with Suburban. There are obvious parallels with Barry Hines’ Kes. But Brian’s story is true. It’s also so heart warming that, rather than cut it to size, we’re running it in three instalments.
Brian’s Story I was aged around eleven when Olly and I first met. That would have been in 1958. My pal David and I were walking home through Ghyll Royd when I spotted a ball of fluff on the footpath. Then the two large round eyes staring back. It was a tawny owl chick, bleeding from the nostrils and with a cracked beak. It seemed too tired to be frightened. We looked round but there were no signs of any nest or adult owls. So I did what any kid of eleven might do - picked him 20 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
Olly the owl with his new friend, Brian Firth. The friendship was to last more than three years.
up and took him home. The vets were closed so my parents helped me put him in a cardboard box, left him some water and went to bed. They warned me that he would probably die during the night. I jumped
up in the morning and ran downstairs. There he was, wide awake and squawking for food. Chopped worms did the trick. The vet told us that he’d never treated an owl. Although he was able to
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brown feathers. Though he never made the twit twoo they do in the movies, just a clicking sound. Then a repertoire of screeches, squeaks and squawks. I was sure he was trying to tell me something. Maybe he was referring to the family dog, Kell, a Labrador multi-cross. Was Olly looking for a playmate or a larger mouse?
Olly, Brian and Kell
“OLLY SEEMED TOO TIRED TO BE FRIGHTENED. WE LOOKED ROUND BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF ANY NEST OR ADULT OWLS. SO I DID WHAT ANY KID OF ELEVEN MIGHT DO - PICKED HIM UP AND TOOK HIM HOME” confirm that there were no serious injuries, he didn’t give him much chance of survival. Dad and I went back to Ghyll Royd that night, hoping to reunite him with his family. We waited for ages, but nothing. The only option was to keep him. And call him Olly. The chopped worms stopped working. The vet had read up on owl diets and recommended lamb heart tightly bound with feathers. And the occasional wild mouse. Kays butchers on Town Street on Guiseley kept me well supplied with lamb heart so I gave
the mice a miss. Two weeks later and it seemed that Olly was going to stay for a while. Dad and I built a large indoor aviary, on top of the coal bunker. I also bought a live mouse trap – and let Olly do the rest. It was the only exercise he had at the time. One week into the new menu and Olly gave me a bit of fright. Was he choking? No - he was regurgitating a ball of feathers, fur and bones. It was apparently what owls did. A couple of months later and Olly had shed his down and grown rich
By that time I was facing up to the reality of releasing Olly back into the wild. But he needed some flying lessons. Or at least some backup if he couldn’t find his wings immediately. Although a novice flying instructor, I’d got it all planned. Starting with Olly on my arm, I’d move it up and down to encourage take-off. Textbook stuff, yes? Kell would stay at home just in case he thought I was playing fetch. I took Olly out at dusk so that I could maintain sight. To the fields that are now Coppice Wood Crescent. There was plenty of countryside all around at the time. So far so good... Although Olly’s first flying lesson didn’t go according to plan, it was an episode in a friendship between bird and boy that was to last for three years. Read what happened next in our April issue. SUBURBAN MAGAZINE | 21
WHAT’S ON GUIDE SPORT HEALTH & WELLBEING ALWOODLEY TENNIS CLUB Alwoodley Community Centre, The Avenue, Alwoodley LS17 7NZ Mini & junior tennis coaching available from ages 4 to 16 in small groups in a friendly family atmosphere. All standards welcome. Enquiries: Diane on 0113 267 5252 or 0771 258 4387
MOOR ALLERTON CROWN GREEN BOWLS Stonegate Road LS17 6EL (opp. Fire Station). League bowlers and newcomers welcome. Karen Newell 0113 2682995 or Stan Charmak 0113 2680438
MOOR ALLERTON SNOOKER CLUB Stonegate Road LS17 6EL (opp. Fire Station). Snooker players for social and league play welcome. 2 tables & bar open every evening. Contact John Stancliffe 0113 2949327 for details.
NATURAL HEALING CENTRE Healing offered every Thursday by members of NFSH The Healing Trust. 7pm - 8.30pm at The Friend's Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 2BW. Donations appreciated. www.leedshealingcentre. org tel. 07949 972690
NEUROLOGY PEER SUPPORT GROUP For those with a Neurological condition and their carers. Support through chat, gentle exercises, arts and crafts. Moortown Baptist Church, King Lane, LS17. 1St Thursday of the month 2.15 -3.15. £2 per person.
NORTH LEEDS LEOPARDS JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB Looking for new recruits between the ages 5 - 15. to train and play rugby league at Far Moss Sports Ground, Moss Valley, Leeds, LS17 7NT. All abilities welcome. CONTACT: Club Secretary on 07813 561090 or go to our website: www.pitchero.com/ clubs/northleedsleopardsjuniorrlfc
NORTH EAST LEEDS FC Based in Chapel Allerton & Moortown FA Charter Standard Development Football Club. Coaches FA qualified, CRB checked, First Aid & Safeguarding Children cert’s. 14 teams from under 8s- under 15s + 2 ‘open age’ teams. Enquiries: Steve Waide 07824 661329 or northeastleedsfc@ hotmail.co.uk / www.nelfc.co.uk
ROUNDHAY ATHLETIC Formed in 2003 the club currently play in the premier division of the Leeds West Riding Sunday League. Enquiries: Tony Charlesworth, shaundhaynes@ hotmail.com www.webteams.co.uk
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ROUNDHAY RUNNERS Thursday evenings 19.00 Sociable running club in Roundhay. New members welcome Meet at Tennis club, Shaftesbury Avenue. www.roundhayrunners.co.uk
SHADWELL TENNIS CLUB Friendly club for players of all levels. New members of all ages & abilities welcome, make new friends & meet fellow villagers. Annual fees just £35/ £15 under 18s. Enquiries: 0113 2252996 or shadwell_tennis_club@hotmail.co.uk
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ALWOODLEY SINGERS Looking for new members - all welcome. Ability to read music preferable but not essential. Rehearsals on Thursdays 8.00 – 10.00 at Alwoodley Community Association Hall, The Avenue, LS17 7NZ. Phone Alan - 0113 2943370
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ALWOODLEY TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD 4th Monday of the month 7.15pm at the ACA The Avenue, LS17 7LT. Variety of Speakers, Outings, Theatre, Coffee mornings. Friendly group, New members/visitors always welcome. Enquiries Pat (0113) 2250030
CARA (BRINGING CHAPEL ALLERTON TOGETHER) Non-profit social community group running free events throughout the year and raising funds for local causes. Members with discounts in local shops, restaurants and clubs. www.lovechapelallerton.com
C.A.S.A. (CHAPEL ALLERTON SENIORS’ ASSOCIATION) Over 60's are invited to DROP IN at The Methodist Centre, Town Street on Wednesdays between 2.00-4.00 p.m. Chat and enjoy a cuppa, play dominoes or cards, do your knitting. Bookstall. No charge.
C.A.T.S. CHAPEL ALLERTON TOWN STREET LUNCH CLUB (FOR OLDER PEOPLE.) The Methodist Centre, Town Street. LS7 4NB. Tuesdays 12:15pm-1:45pm £4 Enquiries: Vivienne 0113 268 2513 or Jenny 0113 266 1502.
CHAPEL ALLERTON GOOD NEIGHBOURS (CAGN, CHAPEL ALLERTON) Chapel Allerton runs a dementia friendly café at Inkwell on Potternewton Lane. To find out more please contact Katty on 0113 887 3595. We have a wide range of volunteering roles available. Please get in touch and make a real difference to older people in your community.
CHAPEL ALLERTON KNITTING GROUP Chapel Allerton Library. 106 Harrogate Road LS7 4LZ. First and third Tuesday of the month, 1pm-3pm. Come and join us for an afternoon of knitting fun! Enquiries: 0113 214 5812
CHAPEL PIE WI Chapel Allerton Tennis Club, Wensley Avenue, off Stainbeck Lane LS7 3QX Visitors to WI are welcome for just £3, full annual membership is £33 More info: chapelpiewi@gmail.com or www.chapelpiewi.com or find us on Facebook at Chapel Pie WI
OAKWOOD & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY A small group of enthusiasts who share a common interest in the past of the locality.
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THE ROTARY CLUB OF ROUNDHAY Sand Moor Golf Club, Alwoodley Lane, LS17 7DJ A small but growing group of friendly, social, charitable professional and business people. A non-religious/political and multi-ethnic organisation welcomes men & women who want to make a difference to anyone in the world. Enquiries: Derek Davidson 0113 2666203 Email: dersuel@sky.com Website: www.roundhayrotaryclub.co.uk
VOLUNTEER AT MAECARE Would you like to… Meet new people? Learn new skills? Help reduce loneliness? Improve the health and well-being of older people? Make a genuine difference? Then come and help us! To find out more about becoming a volunteer for Moor Allerton Elderly Care, please contact 0113 266 0371
Alwoodley Community Centre, The Avenue, Leeds LS17 7NZ Meet 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7.45pm. We would love you to come and join us for Alwoodley in Bloom – no heavy work involved. Enquiries: Audrey 0113 2676697
SHADWELL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Shadwell Methodist Church, Main Street. We are a friendly gardening club for all abilities – membership includes meetings, newsletters, free entry to our traditional Flower Show, members shop and access to gardening advice and new friends. New members welcome £14 single, £18 dual. Contact Susan, 0113 2738821
SLAID HILL IN BLOOM All welcome to join our friendly group no experience necessary. Find out more at www.slaidhillinbloom.org or contact Geoff or Margaret on 0113 2689661
BROWNIES St Stephens Church Hall, Cranmer Rd LS17 5PX. Wednesdays 6.15pm-7.45pm 7 & 8 year old girls are invited to join Brownies for fun & adventure. Enquiries: Jill Fisher on 0113 2676365
SHADWELL NURSERY & OUT OF SCHOOL/BREAKFAST CLUB Shadwell Primary School, Main Street, Shadwell, Leeds LS17 8JF Nursery and out of school club/breakfast club (2-11year olds) quality childcare with an experienced and highly qualified staff team. Enquiries: 0113 2323830 Email: shadwellplaygroup@hotmail.co.uk Website: www.kidstimeleeds.co.uk
ST JOHN VIANNEY BABY & Toddler Group Queens Hall, Immaculate Heart of Mary, 294 Harrogate Road LS17 6LE Tuesday’s during term time 1.30-3pm. £2 per family inc. refreshments. Just drop by, everybody welcome. Enquiries: saintraegan@yahoo.co.uk
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