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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With Le Tour’s Grand Départ just four days away, Temple Newsam welcomed school pupils from across Leeds for the Leeds School Cycle Challenge. The Challenge was designed to encourage children to cycle and to give the pupils, from 50 primary schools and five Special Inclusive Learning Centres (SILCs), a chance to meet Olympic gold…
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Celebrating the Tour de France coming to Leeds, the Tour de Roundhay set out to provide a fun and sociable afternoon for our local community. It certainly delivered this, drawing the praise of BBC Look North’s Amanda Harper who joined us to cut the ribbon for our Grand Départ. Ronnie the Rhino and the Garforth…
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The Go-Givers’ Make a Difference Challenge supports key stage 2 children (aged 7 – 11) in leading a social action campaign on a local, national or global issue of their choice. The challenge was piloted with eight schools from the Temple Newsam Learning Partnership in 2012, with 31 primary schools taking part in 2014. Child friendly…
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As we draw ever closer to the biggest cycling event coming to Leeds, join us as we follow a team of intrepid cycling enthusiasts attempting the first leg of the Tour. This is a fantastic opportunity for the young people involved to have a shared positive experience as well as raisingmoney for Martin…
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Jane and Auli are part of the team working on child friendly Leeds, and they’re talking to organisations across the city about how we can work together to make Leeds’ child friendly city ambitions a reality – here’s a snapshot of four of their recent visits. Get in touch on childfriendlyleeds@leeds.gov.uk if you or your…
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I first became aware of the Independent Visitor (IV) scheme in January of 2012. At this point in my life, I’d admit that I had lost direction. Having graduated from Uni a year previously, I was living in Leeds, working in a job which was both completely unrelated to what I actually wanted to do for a…
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