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...
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- 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...
- Jun 2, 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...
- 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...
- Jun 20, 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...
- 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,...
- Oct 21, 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...
- Aug 2, 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...
- Jul 23, 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...
- Jul 15, 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...
- Jul 5, 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Jun 5, 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...