Editorials
Loads of community focused editorials from THAT LEEDS MAG about the communities of Meanwood, Chapel Allerton, Moortown and Headingley.
Take Time Out to Craft in 2026
At Meanwood’s Stitch-Up Craft School, take time out to craft in 2026 – learn textile skills, boost wellbeing, & connect through community workshops.
How Leeds inspired Sheffield Library
How Leeds inspired Sheffield Library explores how a visit to Leeds Central Library helped shape Sheffield’s iconic combined library and art gallery.
Leeds Repair Cafe Network
Leeds Repair Cafe Network shows how Repair Cafés across Leeds save items from landfill, share skills & bring locals together by fixing items.
Rethinking Suicide Education in the UK
Rethinking Suicide Education in the UK, Leeds-based charity HelloHope is transforming prevention training through innovative VR experiences, compassion and community.”
Leeds Community Markets
Upcoming Leeds community markets. Buy something unique from the very talented and passionate people behind Leeds small businesses.
New Inn Eccup Returns
New Inn Eccup Returns: a charming countryside pub near Leeds, with hearty pies, Sunday roasts, dog-friendly walks, and warm, welcoming vibes.
Pedal Powered Sound System
Discover how Leeds’ Pedal Powered Sound System, Roadblock, turns cycling into clean energy for music, lights and community events.
Kidz Klub Leeds Crowned with the King’s Award
Kidz Klub Leeds is crowned with the King’s Award, recognising its 25-year impact supporting children and families in inner-city Leeds.
Leeds Community Sauna
Leeds Community Sauna brings a wood-fired, community-owned sauna and plunge pool to Kirkstall Valley Farm – a new space for rest, reconnection, and shared wellbeing.
Leeds Kids Dig in with Grow to School
Leeds kids dig in with Grow to School: 10 Leeds primaries join a year-long outdoor learning adventure, growing food, skills, and a love for nature together.
Beam works Leeds
Beam Works Leeds is a fine art print studio, shop, and community hub on Otley Road – championing local artists, sustainable creativity, and workshops.
Moor Allerton Everyone Cares
Moor Allerton Everyone Cares (MAECare) supports older people in north Leeds with dementia care, exercise, digital skills, advice & social activities.
Sue Ryder Starlight Hike 2025
Join the Sue Ryder Starlight Hike 2025 in Otley on 18 Oct – walk 5k or 10k under the stars to remember loved ones and raise funds for vital hospice care.
Fruit Works Leeds
Fruit Works Leeds is planting orchards, sharing skills and celebrating harvests – building resilient, sustainable communities one fruit tree at a time.
Brewed in Leeds
Brewed in Leeds puts local breweries centre stage, offering drinkers fresh flavours, community spirit, and real choice with every pint.
Take Time Out to Craft in 2026
At Meanwood’s Stitch-Up Craft School, take time out to craft in 2026 – learn textile skills, boost wellbeing, & connect through community workshops.
How Leeds inspired Sheffield Library
How Leeds inspired Sheffield Library explores how a visit to Leeds Central Library helped shape Sheffield’s iconic combined library and art gallery.
Leeds Repair Cafe Network
Leeds Repair Cafe Network shows how Repair Cafés across Leeds save items from landfill, share skills & bring locals together by fixing items.
Rethinking Suicide Education in the UK
Rethinking Suicide Education in the UK, Leeds-based charity HelloHope is transforming prevention training through innovative VR experiences, compassion and community.”
Leeds Community Markets
Upcoming Leeds community markets. Buy something unique from the very talented and passionate people behind Leeds small businesses.
New Inn Eccup Returns
New Inn Eccup Returns: a charming countryside pub near Leeds, with hearty pies, Sunday roasts, dog-friendly walks, and warm, welcoming vibes.
Pedal Powered Sound System
Discover how Leeds’ Pedal Powered Sound System, Roadblock, turns cycling into clean energy for music, lights and community events.
Kidz Klub Leeds Crowned with the King’s Award
Kidz Klub Leeds is crowned with the King’s Award, recognising its 25-year impact supporting children and families in inner-city Leeds.
Have you visited Moortown Park
Have you visited Moortown Park? Hidden away between Shadwell Lane and Street Lane, Moortown Park was formally opened in December 2018 and has proved a very popular addition to the Moortown community ever since.
Dress with confidence this autumn
Dress with confidence this autumn | As the seasons change, our dressing habits change too. You’ve probably started adding layers and the debates are raging on whether to wear your winter coat and have the heating turned up!
Go beyond carbon neutral
Go beyond carbon neutral with Beyond Neutral paper from a supplier based in Yorkshire and distributing office paper to businesses, schools, councils, and end users across Yorkshire.
Rob Wilson meets THAT LEEDS MAG
For edition 7 of THAT LEEDS MAG, I’ve had a conversation with super friendly Rob Wilson, founder of Angels of Freedom. Rob is busy in the Freedom Quarter every Friday night but even busier behind the scenes providing support and information to families with LGBT+ children and organising inclusive social events.
Take a Seat Leeds
Leeds Civic Trust wanted to commemorate the strength of our communities throughout Covid19. Their ‘Take a Seat’ bench campaign does just that, read more about the three benches in our area. #takeaseatleeds
Prepping for Big School
Do you have children starting Primary School in September? It’s a mentally challenging time for both parents and children, make it easier with the top tips from Author Jodie Webber. And find out more about Mystic Bunny Boy.
Improve your appearance on search
Improve your appearance on search with top tips from Chroma Marketing helping businesses get found online. In the early stages of THAT LEEDS MAG, I had an Online Digital Review, Laura Norman and her team are experts!
Chef Jono meets THAT LEEDS MAG
What happens when Chef Jono meets THAT LEEDS MAG. Didn’t Jono do well on MasterChef the Professionals? What a lovely Yorkshire Chef.
In the Chapel Allerton Community
Set up in 2017, CA Spaces is a volunteer run group who bring colour, greenery and playful art projects to Chapel Allerton.
Projects have included working with street artists on murals and media boxes around the area, planting trees and wildflowers and creating a mud kitchen for children to play and families to meet in a small, unused green space.
Could you be using your time more productively?
Can we save time? We have all got the same amount of time so we can’t bank hours to use later but we can use our time more productively. It is so easy to be distracted; to put off things till “later” and to be side-tracked onto more interesting activities.
Mental Health Mates Leeds
Mental Health Mates Leeds is part of a growing national (and international) network of peer support groups run by people with mental health issues, they meet regularly to walk, talk and share with others, without fear of judgement. It is based on the premise that mental health issues can be magnified in isolation and promotes the message ‘Helping you find your we. Because you are not alone.’
lisa holdsworth meets that leeds mag
Lisa Holdsworth meets THAT LEEDS MAG. Lisa is a scriptwriter and has been involved in the creation of some exciting dialogue for Emmerdale, Midsomer Murders, Fat Friends, Call the Midwife to name a few and more recently A Discovery of Witches. She is Chair of the Writers’ Guild as well as being passionate about women’s rights.
Get out of pain and feel physically better
Pilates teacher and massage therapist Jana Shirley has been on a roller coaster ride ensuring that her clients have been able to maintain a pain free lifestyle without physical contact through the lockdowns.
Winter Friends
‘Winter Friends’ encourages people to extend support into warmer months.
Kind-spirited people across Leeds are being encouraged to look out for the vulnerable in their communities even as the weather warms up and government restrictions ease.
Meanwood Valley Rangers
Volunteers welcomed by the Meanwood Valley Rangers. Volunteers can help to improve and maintain habitats for wildlife, carrying out a range of different tasks from litter picking, scrub control, invasive plant species control, hedge laying, dead hedging, woodland management (coppicing, tree planting, willow pollarding and tree seed gathering) to scything and wildlife surveys. Along with site repairs and public rights of way work, footpath and drainage repairs.
Ben ‘Buddy’ Slack Meets THAT LEEDS MAG
The Swan Song Project is a charity which gives people living with terminal illnesses or dealing with bereavement the opportunity and support to write and record their own original song. I wanted to find out more about the great service provided and what people could expect if they got involved.
Memphis Pete Meets THAT LEEDS MAG
Born and bred in Leeds with eight siblings, Memphis Pete has stayed true to his roots with countless outdoor events to cheer up the locals. Keeping himself active with online, street and care home garden shows for the communities he knows and loves.
Dress with Confidence
Do you feel like you’ve lost your sense of style since lockdown began? Thoughts are now forming about what you’re going to wear post lockdown and if what you’ve got will still fit.
Meanwood Men Shed
Meanwood Men Shed is a dedicated space for men to socialise and pursue practical interests which opened in Meanwood, Spring 2021.
Shout Aloud
A life changing trip to Bali. In 2019 Suzie Hamlin could never have known that walking into a jewellery store in Bali would change her life forever. Not just her life, the lives of a talented Balinese lady and her family and countless people in the UK.
Kirby’s meets that leeds mag
New owner of Kirby’s of Meanwood, Andy Crombleholme has been frying fish since he was 15. I caught up with him to see how taking over this iconic takeaway at such a challenging time has been.
Larry & Paul meet That Leeds Mag
What brilliant fun I had interviewing Leed’s up and coming comedy stallions – Larry & Paul. They thoroughly enjoy producing lockdown gloom busting comedy to entertain us, and their passion for comedy shines through.
How to film better video on your smartphone
How do I make videos on my phone?
You may have given it a go and shot a few videos yourself but you’ve found that your knowledge of video and your phone have a few limitations. Here are 10 top tips for you to try out.
Shared Lives and Leeds Homeshare
Shared Lives and Leeds Homeshare – provide a unique approach to meeting the needs of local people. Both schemes are part of Leeds City Council. They keep in regular contact with all participants and have careful Covid measures in place.
SILKY MEETS THAT LEEDS MAG
THAT LEEDS MAG caught up with Silky before he set off to Wales for one of the last few gigs he had booked. It was the first chat we have ever had and we found out quite a bit about each other. Silky moved to Chapel Allerton in 2007 from York, but has lived all over England. We talked about his lockdown experience and discussed a woodpecker on his bird table.
Meanwood, what makes you mad, sad or glad
By 2030 we will work together to make Meanwood a climate resilient community where all neighbours can enjoy a healthy life with equal access to opportunities, facilities, services and public spaces.
This is our vision for Meanwood over the next 10 years. Our 2020 research has led to three focus areas each with their own projects. We plan to consult again over the next ten years as these projects begin to happen, to be sure the focus areas are still relevant and to identify new projects based on current needs, and new ideas.
Start 2021 with a more eco-friendly outlook
Seagulls Paint came on board to advertise in THAT LEEDS MAG in November and I was more than happy to design their advert for them. Doing my research to make sure that the ad reflected what they do and their brand I discovered that they are also a liquid refill store. I went over to visit them to find out more.
Street Art Comes to Meanwood
THAT LEEDS MAG is excited to share some lovely pictures and information about Meanwood Street Art. Leah Clarke from Meanwood Street Art shared details with us about the colourful boxes popping up around Meanwood. Find out what it’s all about, what’s coming up next for the Project and how you might get involved.
MyCarbon meets THAT LEEDS MAG
THAT LEEDS MAG is excited to be chatting to Toby Green, co-founder of MyCarbon and PhD researcher at the University of Leeds. It is clear from our interview that Toby, co-founder of MyCarbon is incredibly passionate about the environment. In our chat we discuss how to calculate my carbon usage, what our highest carbon use activity as humans is and why striving to be carbon neutral is so important.
Chilli-Shop meets THAT LEEDS MAG
Frank is a genuine foodie and chilli expert who has a passion for sharing his knowledge and love of chillis with everyone. On a visit to the hottest shop in town in the Merrion Centre you can expect your taste buds to more than be tingled by delicious products from all over the world. I wanted to find out more about the Chilli-Shop and how Frank’s creative marketing has kept his business afloat during the pandemic.
Redundancy
I will start up THAT LEEDS MAG. I will employ myself. Producing the work over lockdown has given me the confidence to say, I am a great Graphic Designer. I can help your business by building on your brand to make it stand out and grow.
Local Authors Bill Hern & David Gleave tell the stories of the first black football players
Football’s Black Pioneers: The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs.