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Summer Bands in Leeds Parks are returning. Unlike previous years, there won’t be a printed brochure for the 2025 series, so please follow the link for updates: https://www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk/summer-bands-2025/

The Friends of Roundhay Park are thrilled to announce that we have received the King’s Award for Voluntary Service. This prestigious award is given to volunteer groups that demonstrate outstanding work in their local community. A huge huge thank you to all our volunteers over the years who have helped in projects from litter picking…

WalkSafe Leeds is a free safety app available nationwide, but they’ve developed Leeds-specific features for users when they’re within a 6km radius of the city centre. Users can share their locations and journeys when out and about with contacts they trust, so that they can get around/get home safely, and when within Leeds they can…

Dave Sellers, a member of the Oakwood Film Academy, has made an interesting short documentary film about water quality in Leeds. This includes the work that local groups (Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods and REAP/FoRP) are doing to monitor water quality in two separate areas of North East Leeds.  You can watch the film here Filming with…

In November 2023 REAP set up a citizen science project to monitor, record and report on water quality in Roundhay Park.  This work was initially funded by a grant from Change X which paid for a subscription, training and testing kits from Freshwater Watch.  In year 2 the project was funded by REAP and FORP with further…

Tickets are now available for this Heritage Open Days event, brought to you by Oakwood Film Academy with the support of The Friends of Roundhay Park. You will see two short films: Game Changer & The Roundhay Park 150 anniversary celebration. There will be an opportunity for Q&A with the film makers and the whole…