Once again Hilary Benn joined us to share his views on a number of topics that are close to his heart. If you have any thoughts about the things he talks about, why not leave a comment in the box below? Better yet, why not make your own podcast and share your views with the ELFM listeners?!

For more information about Act on CO2 you can call 0800 512 012 or click here. If you want to work out how much carbon you produce then have a look at the Carbon Calculator.

To contact Hilary, you can email him at bennh@parliament.uk or telephone his office on 0113 2441097.

 

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Another Sunday and another ELFM broadcast. This Months broadcast was as interesting as ever, my personal highlight has to be the “United as One” show which showcased the life of young African’s in Harehills. As well as some genuinely funny chat, they played a mixture of music genres - from African through to UK Grime.

Once again our friends from the Leeds Kurdish Community Association put on an interesting mix of music and chat - it’d be interesting next time to hear about the Association’s work as well as the influence of Kurdish culture on the area. Finally we reprised the popular “In the Boudoir” show. Shared between 3 local acts we had live music from Streetlights, Maggie 8 and ODi. They all sounded amazing from my view point (in the studio listening through headphones) and the interviews were quite enlightening as well. All 3 acts had to choose some tracks to be played after their live set, again some interesting choices - some unexpected.

What could be better for the next broadcast? More people sticking around after their slots, I know we’re all volunteers but the bands that come along later in the day need our support, more people in the room would make the performances even better - it would make clearing up afterwards easier as well!!

Roll on the next internet broadcast on Sunday June 1st.

If you want to learn more why not come along to the next meeting on May 21st? Full details can be found here.

Andy

Hi my name is David a.k.a Didds, and last year I came up with the ideal for a local talent show. Originally I wanted to call it ‘Swarcliffes Got Talent’, But when Approached youth workers at Swarcliffes Detached Youth Work Project & St Gregorys Youth & Adult Centre they suggested to opening the event to a bigger audience. So in a series of meetings with myself, Les parkinson and Claire Billingham we decided to open it to the entire East Leeds area. ‘ East Leeds Got Talent’.
Also my original idea was to open the Talent show to any age! But due to Legal reasons this would not be possible. I was overwelmed by the amount I had to organise just for one event, so the next thing we had to do was get funding for the event, we applied for money from Leeds City Council, Councillor Suzie Armitage, she was kind enough to give us £250 to helf fund the event. We also applied for money from Aire Valley Homes, the helped fund with a further £250. The £500 was to pay for Prizes (vouchers), a trophy, decorations and two photographic display!
The event was held at St Gregorys Youth & Adult Centre, a number of young people from, Swarcliffe, Crossgates, and not part of East Leeds Bramley and Boston Spa. There was 3 judges on the night, myself, Pat Brooke and Jane Devine (youth worker). On the night the acts included
Duty calls, Jemski Dance Group, Divider and the Echo Kids. In 1st: The Echo Kids 2nd: Jemski Dabce Group (senior) 3rd: Crossgates Drama Group.

You can listen to Didds who came down to the ELFM studio with young talent Divider to talk about how the event went…

 

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Well, did my first “proper” show since 2006 as part of this weeks ELFM broadcast from Gipton. You can listen to this again by clicking below. I had a couple of guests in from Stop Hate UK, Richard & Jagdeep. They came in to talk about the work that Stop Hate UK does in Leeds, and increasingly around the country, tackling the problem of hate crimes in society. They pointed out that hate crimes do not soley relate to crimes connected to racism, but can include any crime where the victim feels they have been targeted due to some difference - whether it be religious, their sexuality, a disability or anything else.

As part of their work within the community, Stop Hate UK in partnership with local group Community Unity, recently held a community event to bring together people from different cultures. This was held at the Newbourne Methodist Church, Richmond Hill, on February 16th and was very well attended by people from throughout the local community.

If you feel that you have been a victim of hate crime you can call their hotline free on 0800 138 1625 in total confidence. They also have a website, www.stophateuk.org.

If you want to volunteer, or want more information about the work that Stop Hate UK do, then you can ring them on 0113 2935100 or email them at info@stophateuk.org.

That’s it, thanks for listening and I’ll be back for the next broadcast.

Andy

 

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Hi everyone. Just done another show. It went very well today infact, it was the best one so far. We had a superintendent and an inspector from west yorkshire police talking about local crime and neighborhood issues. If you yourself have any issues about anything the police could deal with then please tell us here at ELFM and luke or robin will be happy to pass it on. If you would like to get in contact with them yourself via http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/.

Tune in same time tomorrow from 1-2pm for a live broadcast from the henry Barron Centre.