The Happy Project – Competition ENDED The Merrion Centre, owners Town Centre Securities PLC & Child Friendly Leeds are inviting all budding poets to join in the ‘pun fun’ with the chance TO WIN! Winners announced – CONGRATULATIONS! We will share the poems on this page soon 🙂 1st Prize: Elianna Kagai (11 years): A…
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Leeds City Centre Management and Child Friendly Leeds are proud to present the ‘ReDiscover Leeds Family Trail’. The trail highlights lots of unknown stories, hidden wonders and amazing pieces of art, all of which make Leeds city centre a great place for families to visit. The ‘ReDiscover Leeds Family Trail’ shines a spotlight on treasures…
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Join us for the biggest children’s festival in Yorkshire featuring Popular children’s TV presenters and performers on National Play Day 7th August. Tickets are now on sale for Child Friendly Leeds Live 2019, which will be headlined by CBeebies’ Mr. Bloom and His Band and former presenter Alex Winters returning as host. What’s happening? Performances…
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Local theatre company Wrongsemble have a sprout or two up their sleeve when it comes to festive family-friendly entertainment. Catch their brand new pop-up show The Princess and the Sprout & Other Festive Tales from 7th-31st December at Leeds Central Library, the only festive show in Leeds this year specifically catering to 3-8 year old…
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Child Friendly Leeds Sundays Every Sunday during the summer holidays is a Child Friendly Leeds Sunday. Rumani, one of our competition winners, dreamt of creating fabulous play spaces in the city centre, where she and her friends could hang out together and have fun. This exciting project which came out of a fantastic competition, which…
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Leeds city centre will come to life over the summer holidays with a jam packed calendar of activities for families starting at the end of July. Whether you want to relax on a deck chair at City Beach, enjoy live entertainment at Child Friendly Leeds Live, soak up the sunshine at one of our pop-up spaces…
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@SnappLeeds was an idea by Cameron, Godwin, Joe, Samuel and Simon from Abbey Grange Academy, who wanted to create an enjoyable experience for young people ‘through an interactive picture taking activity in and around the city centre’. They want teenagers across the city to be given the chance to win vouchers by taking pictures around…
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As football fever is set to sweep the nation when the FIFA World Cup starts this June, the much-admired Leeds theatre company tutti frutti is delighted to announce that it will be celebrating the beautiful game by staging the premiere of Keepy Uppy. Available to tour from the 5th of May to the 1st of…
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The Arium is delighted to bring you its February Fun Fair this half term, Saturday 10 – Sunday 18. There’ll be free fairground rides in our event space, children’s story-telling sessions, a book swap and tons more activities to keep the kids occupied. Children’s story-telling sessions will take place Saturday 10 – Sunday 18 at…
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In case you weren’t aware, the clocks go back on Sunday 29th October. The October clock change signals the beginning of winter and the start of darker evenings. One of the consequences of this is an increased risk to people’s safety on the roads. Vulnerable road users like children, the elderly, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists…
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Around 20 (well maybe 30) years ago, when I was a kid growing up, the summer holidays were a time to look forward to. The sun always seemed to shine, we could play outside on our own all day with friends, riding bikes and building dens in the fields near where we lived. Fun was…
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A new Change4life campaign encourages children to be more active. The 10 Minute Shake Up is a Disney inspired campaign and we hope our partners and Leeds children and families will get involved. Public Health England will be contacting all primary schools in England over the next few weeks with games and stickers for children…
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