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    New community-led Dortmund Leeds partnership website goes online
    • Feb 7
    • 2 min

    New community-led Dortmund Leeds partnership website goes online

    Over 50 years ago Leeds and Dortmund signed an official twinning partnership sealing the bond of friendship between the two cities. Since...
    Leeds leads European discussion on how cities can support migrant children
    • Oct 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Leeds leads European discussion on how cities can support migrant children

    Leeds joined with the city of Amsterdam and other cities from across Europe to discuss the important role local governments have to play...
    Leeds joins global mayors to commit to power youth, delivering inclusive economic growth in COVID-19
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Leeds joins global mayors to commit to power youth, delivering inclusive economic growth in COVID-19

    Leader of Leeds City Council, Cllr James Lewis, has joined more than 60 mayors from around the world to renew Leeds’ commitment to...
    Possible All Along – marking the International Day of Disabled People
    • Dec 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    Possible All Along – marking the International Day of Disabled People

    Disabled artists in Leeds are showing that they are an important part of the city’s cultural landscape with an online exhibition. The...
    Leeds celebrates World Refugee Day
    • Jun 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Leeds celebrates World Refugee Day

    Leeds has joined other cities from across the world to mark and celebrate World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the...
    Czech Community celebrates opening of Cultural Centre
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Czech Community celebrates opening of Cultural Centre

    Last week, the Czech community living in Leeds celebrated the opening of the Bohemia Bistro Community Café and the Czech Cultural Centre,...
    Leeds joins the Intercultural Cities Network
    • Oct 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Leeds joins the Intercultural Cities Network

    Leeds is now a proud member of the Intercultural Cities Network (ICC), a Council of Europe initiative which allows exchanges of good...
    Jamaican High Commissioner attends launch of Eulogy exhibition
    • Aug 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Jamaican High Commissioner attends launch of Eulogy exhibition

    Yesterday evening the Jamaican High Commissioner, His Excellency Seth George Ramocan CD, joined the Lord Mayor of Leeds and Leader of...
    Visit Leeds launches new China Forum
    • Jul 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Visit Leeds launches new China Forum

    Last month saw the launch of a new forum to help businesses gear up to welcome more Chinese visitors and to provide great customer...
    Telling the stories of Leeds’ migrants
    • Jul 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    Telling the stories of Leeds’ migrants

    Leeds City Museum has celebrated the launch of a new exhibition that explores some of the personal stories of Leeds’ migrant communities...
    Morley – Siegen older people’s link still going strong
    • Jul 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    Morley – Siegen older people’s link still going strong

    This week the Lord Mayor of Leeds welcomed a group of older people from Leeds’ partner city of Siegen to a civic reception in the Civic...
    “German thoughts on Brexit” – an invitation from Leeds Anglo-German club
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    “German thoughts on Brexit” – an invitation from Leeds Anglo-German club

    Leeds Anglo German Club and Mark Green, Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany, invite you to a talk in Headingley on...
    Leeds Dortmund 50
    • Feb 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Leeds Dortmund 50

    Having heard from the Mayor of Dortmund about the Leeds-Dortmund partnership in an interview with BBC Radio Leeds, today’s guest blog is...
    Settled Status : pourquoi en faire la demande et comment l’obtenir ?
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Settled Status : pourquoi en faire la demande et comment l’obtenir ?

    Today we have an invitation from Henriette Mahamane from the Petite Ecole de Leeds, to an event for French residents wanting to find out...
    Happy Spring Festival – 春节快乐
    • Feb 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Happy Spring Festival – 春节快乐

    5th of February marks the Chinese Lunar New Year 2019 and this year we are saying goodbye to the Year of the Dog and welcoming the Year...
    EU exit awareness evening for Central and Eastern European citizens in Leeds
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    EU exit awareness evening for Central and Eastern European citizens in Leeds

    The Central and Eastern European Network of British Embassies (Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania,...
    Looking for volunteers to get involved in the Morley-Siegen link
    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Looking for volunteers to get involved in the Morley-Siegen link

    The Morley-Siegen link celebrated it’s 50th anniversary in 2017 and the organisers are looking to recruit new volunteers to get involved...
    Performing Gender: Five stories told through dance
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Performing Gender: Five stories told through dance

    Telling my mum about the performance I had seen at Yorkshire Dance on Friday evening was challenging, because we spoke German to each...
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