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]
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]
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]
Voluntary Action Leicester is to host the Leicester Volunteering Convention on Wednesday 9th July from 3.30pm – 8pm. The event will include a range of workshops and a talk by specialist speaker Simon Richards on “The National Profile of Volunteering”. Please download the application form to register your place. [...more]
MIDSUMMER DELIGHTS A Charity Concert including music by Johann Strauss, Mozart, Elgar, Chopin & Gershwin featuring The Charnwood Piano Trio - Jill Shepherd ( flute ) John Adams ( cello ) Alison Adams ( piano ) at The Parish Church of St. Andrew Countesthorpe by kind permission of The Rev’d David Hebblewhite and the Churchwardens on Saturday 5 July 2008 at 7.30 p.m. Tickets: [...] [...more]
Please find below a link to a press release for two green events the LeicestHERday Trust are piloting this summer entitled Go Green – Save Money! The first is in Saffron at the Linwood Centre on 17th July and the second to take place on August 7th at the Home Farm Neighbourhood Centre in [...] [...more]
