Choose or Lose YPC Elections

This month sees the start of the elections for prospective candidates to Leicester’s Young Peoples Council (YPC).
Its only a few weeks away and the voter cards for each area are available below:
The hustings events are as follows:
Area 1 March 16th at Stocking farm Youth Centre 7pm
Area 2 March 17th at Armadale Youth Centre 7pm – [...]

New Parks Library Opens Tuesday

See Teresa Delaney, the new Senior Community Librarian and Kerrie Noon, the Volunteer and Skills Development worker talk about the new library, their roles and opportunities for local people to get involved in the new Library in New Parks. The library opens on Tuesday 16th March.

New Parks Library Centre is a £1.5 million Big [...]

Shop owner plays with past

By Beckie Rowe
A Clarendon Park toyshop owner has helped to breathe new life into a children’s classic toys at one of the cities oldest venues.
This Saturday Abbey Pumping Station, corporation Road, is opening its doors to the public for the very first ‘Lego Madness’.
Ian Adcock, owner of Midway Models, which has served the community for [...]

Toddler group earns praise

By Sharan Bajwa
A popular toddler group held at a Clarendon Park Road library has been dubbed a ‘serious competitor’ to playgroups in the area.
The free, once weekly event –which includes storytelling and pupeteering from a regular hostess, and crafts – was first formed around six-years-ago for under-fives to attend with their parents in Knighton.
The group [...]

Could You Be A Citizen Reporter?

2010 is shaping up to be an interesting year for Community Media in Leicester and Leicestershire.
Firstly is the development of a Community Media Hub in the Leicester Mercury. It’s a similiar relationship to the one Citizens Eye has with the Library Service at the Learning & Information Library on Bishop Street – use of a computer, telephone [...]

The Learning Revolution

The Learning Revolutionaries Project is being run by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) throughout England. It is funded by the government’s Transformation Fund which seeks to support new ways of encouraging and enabling informal adult learning.

The project is based on the idea that there is enormous value in learning for its own sake; especially people [...]

Olli Helps AD Books on World Book Day

Editor: I visited Action Deafness yesterday evening to see what Action Deafness Books had been up to for World Book Day. Lots of happy smiling faces amongst the children as ‘Olli’ had made an appearance??
‘Sign with Olli’ author Garry Slack and Olli the Monkey were there to give a fun and interactive BSL session!!!
Well done [...]

Disabled Children and Young Peoples Art Show Launch

Wednesday March 3rd saw the launch of The Crafternoon Tea Art Exhibition at Central Lending Library in Belvoir Street.
The exhibition features the work of disabled children and young people involved in the Crafternoon Tea Club and runs until Wednesday March 17. It was arranged in a partnership between the team delivering Leicester [...]

Today Is World Book Day

Thursday 4th March gives Action Deafness Books the opportunity to support World Book Day – the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK. To celebrate, we’ll be holding a fun session of reading and learning!!!  You’ve got to be there!
Fully interpreted into BSL, we’ll have readings from Jacqueline Wilson’s ‘Hetty Feather’ and [...]

No alarm for city farm

by Paul Lynch
A hard hit farmer is vowing to bounce back after the toughest winter for 30 years- with a little help from the springtime.
The snowy weather led to a decline in the number of paying visitors needed to keep Gorse Hill City Farm running.
Cold animals also needed more food and hay to keep their [...]

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