As one of the most successful series of children’s books, the Harry Potter series has opened the (Gryffin)door to reading for many young people. At their recent ‘Library Fest’ Leeds City Council’s library service transformed Leeds Central Library into their very own Hogwarts. In today’s child friendly Leeds blog, librarian Ben reveals more about the…
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The Young People’s Takeover Festival at Leeds Grand Theatre in March is planned by young people and brings together creative workshops for young people aged 7-17. In today’s child friendly blog we hear from Sophie Poole who is helping to plan the festival and was previously responsible for planning our child friendly Leeds awards, about…
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The newly launched Youth Information Hub is a one-stop shop for young people across Leeds to get the information they need – to answer questions they have about mental and sexual health, find out what’s on in Leeds, and get help and support with lots of different things. The site has been designed through discussion…
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Libraries aren’t just great places to read your favourite books, they’re also community spaces that host an array of child friendly activities. With autumn half-term coming up, we decided to find out more about what’s going on at Leeds libraries. Today we talk to Owen Clements, the Children’s Information Librarian at Leeds Central Library, about…
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The child friendly Leeds awards are an opportunity to reflect on the people, places and organisations making Leeds a fantastic city to grow-up in, as well as for people from the city to share their stories about the child friendly activities they organise and participate in. Today we hear from Kay Brown, an organiser of…
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A child friendly Leeds means making Leeds a place where children and young people, and their families are able to get out and get active! After the excitement of the Grand Départ, more people in Leeds are keen to get out on their bicycles and Sky Rides are a great way for families to do…
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The fun and sunshine of the summer holidays presents children and young people with plenty of opportunities to get out and explore the places and spaces in Leeds. This year the summer holidays are no exception, with Leeds Museums and Galleries coming together to ask who the children and young people of Leeds will become…
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On Saturday the 19th of July students from the Centre for Advanced Training, Yorkshire Young Dancers (YYD) based at Northern School of Contemporary Dance jumped into action at Trinity Leeds shopping centre as part of Breeze Arts Festival. The flash mob was choreographed by Sean Selby and helped to promote both the arts Festival…
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Keeping children engaged in learning can be difficult, especially over the summer holidays. The Mythical Maze summer reading challenge is a fun way to improve your child’s literacy whilst getting them involved in some fantastic activities and stories! Mythical Maze is a national campaign organised by the Reading Agency, with the involvement of the Leeds…
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The Breeze Arts Festival is an arts festival for young people aged 11-19, taking place between 19-27 July across Leeds. This year we have been working with a steering group of young people to organise the festival. These nine young people have been meeting with us weekly from January to July to help to plan…
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Leeds Play Network told us about what they got up to over Summer, and one of the things was lots of fun in Otley and Aireborough! They worked with extended services and cluster managers to put on 18 fun days for children and families in the local area. Children had the chance to try…
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We had a great time at CBBC and the child friendly Leeds events in July! You can see pictures of what we got up to out and about at child friendly Leeds events and at CBBC in the square. If you or your family had a great time at the event, and you’d like to write…
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