The fun Playday for children and young people will take place on Wednesday 6th August in Town Hall Square, Leicester. From 10am to 3pm, there are many different activities including: climbing wall urban rebounding reaction wall water slide den making book bus boat building fishing in the fountain plus much more on the day Young people will be engaged as journalists for the day to report [...] [...more]
Money for Sports Scheme Thousands of pounds of lottery money will pay for schemes to tackle obesity and encourage more volunteering in Leicester. The City’s Local Sports Alliance has been awarded over £86,000 after a successful bid to Sport England for the cash, which is designed to encourage healthier lifestyles. Steve White, Chairman of the Local [...] [...more]
Forget Summer Sundae and come to THE event of the summer! Supersonic is a festival for everyone and a bargain to boot. Saturday 16 August is a family music extravaganza with local live bands and a wonderous wurlitzer of workshops. Why not make your own musical instrument from junk? Or try your hand at tabla (the talking [...] [...more]
This year’s Mela, on Sunday 24th August promises to be an even greater feast of colour, music, dance and entertainment. For the first time, the event will take place in Loughborough Town Centre and will be publicised across the whole of Charnwood. Charnwood Mela is a partnership event between Charnwood Borough Council, who is the main [...] [...more]
What is Eurosom? Organised by the local Somali community, Eurosom 2008 is an ambitious and magnificent venture, involving the hosting in Leicester Shire of young sportspeople from across Europe, reflecting the Somali Diaspora and other ethnic minority communities. For two full and exciting weeks, these young people will compete in seven sports (football, cricket, basketball, athletics, [...] [...more]
Invitation to Akwaaba Ayeh ‘Choosing Health for World Mental Health/ Networking Day & AGM” I am writing to invite you to our ‘Choosing Health For World Mental Health/ Networking Day & AGM’ which is to take place on Friday, 10th October 2008 at the African Caribbean Centre, Maidstone Road, Leicester, LE2 0UA. The event is from 10.00am [...] [...more]
Editor: I recently met with Jackie Perkins, Editor of the deafZINE to find out about the deaf-leicester website and their fantastic magazine. Jackie said: “We at deaf-leicester started deafZINE – the community magazine created FOR the deaf, BY the deaf! because of the feedback we received from our readers, when the deaf-leicester website was launched. We discovered [...] [...more]
What is WALKTALK? A walk between Leeds and London encouraging conversations between people of widely different backgrounds and experience An idea conceived by Gill Hicks, a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings who lost both her legs that day, and her husband Joe Kerr (both of M.A.D for Peace), and developed with Zulfi Hussain of [...] [...more]
Eurosom is a sporting event organised by the local Somali community in Europe. Eurosom 2008 is an ambitious and magnificent venture, involving the hosting in our city and county of young sports people from across Europe, reflecting the Somali Diaspora and other ethnic minority communities. For two full and exciting weeks, these young people will compete [...] [...more]
Leicester Chinese Community Centre Children Summer Mandarin Class The centre is going to run a Mandarin Class for children from age 8 to 11 and tutoring is by a professional tutor from Mainland China. Apart from learning Mandarin, children also have chance to learn calligraphy, Chinese Art and craft. Date:From 28th July 2008 to 20th August 2008 - [...] [...more]
