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A nice local lead in to Christmas! From 1st December right up to Christmas Eve, windows decorated with a Christmas theme will be lit up for visitors to enjoy – a new one added each evening. Here’s the list of where you can see them (lighting up time 5pm)…… 1st Dec  – 16 Cottage Road 2nd Dec  – 3 Moor Park Avenue 3rd Dec  – 1 Monkbridge Road 4th Dec  – 6 Moor Park Avenue 5th Dec  – 16 Cottage Road 6th Dec  – View from Weetwood Lane (behind Bottle Chop) 7th Dec  – 5 Moor Road 8

Come to Meanwood at 5.30pm (til 7.30) on Friday for the Christmas Lights Switch On! If you go along and see us, do say hi! We go every year, it's always worth it. And as Councillors we've been very happy to help fund it along with the Moortown Councillors. This all happens because of brilliant Meanwood Valley Partnership volunteers, and the support of local businesses like Meanwood Hardware who helped organise the Christmas tree and lights.

We're really looking forward to this! Book your tickets here . All proceeds go to their 'Rain Drops Appeal' raising money to fix the church roof: "By The Play... Theatre Productions proudly present 'Robin Hood' - The Tale of the Golden Arrow. Join Leeds based By The Play for one of 2 performances of their 25/26 season Pantomime, Robin Hood, at St Chads Parish Centre in Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 3rd January 2026. This wonderful family friendly pantomime written by Sarah Bi

It's not every day you get approached about a charity fundraiser that also celebrates our ward in its entirety, but today is the day! Louis is raising money for his local Scout group by running every single street in the ward. Wow! You can check out his fundraiser here We'll be helping partly by providing a map and a list of streets in the ward which we can list from memory by now... Here are Louis' own words: " The Ward is very large and covers parts of Headingley, West Par

We're so lucky to have this great community centre and cafe in our ward at 55 Bedford Drive. We have many surgeries and community meetings there. And we're pleased to share some events they have planned for the public. On the 20th of November first up, 'Inn and Out at the Top with Neil Hanson' which promises to be a hilarious talk about life in Britain's highest inn back in the 1970s and 80s - an appropriate topic to be hosted by former pub the Welcome In! And then on the 26t

Beware ….we have heard rumours of spooky happenings in and around Beckett Park on Friday 31st. After a very successful outing last year ROADBLOCK  is back to travel around the estate with lights and music and treats so make sure that you are there….. BRING  your family, your friends, even Granny if she is not too timid…..come along and meet at the gates!  (Shared from the wonderful Friends of Beckett Park)

There are lots of great events coming up for the autumn and winter, all put on by the council. Don't miss out on: the now iconic Leeds Light Night on the 22nd and 23rd of October Saturday music performances at Leeds City Museum lots of spooky Halloween events for all ages Leeds is a great city and part of that is our support for public culture and entertainment. See you out there!

We've been working with a local archaeologist who has taken an interest in Clayton / Silk Mill woods. They're going to do a little discovery walk with some members of the South Leeds Archaeology group, and we're going to join them. Would you like to come? We can't promise ancient temples or Saxon hoards but who knows, it'll at least be a nice walk! We're meeting at 1pm on Saturday 8th November. Please can you just fill in our form if you'd like to attend, in case it needs to

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