8 August 2023

Project Communities CIC offer an action packed timetable of activities to keep children entertained from 10am-2pm! Places are available for children aged between 8 and 12 years old with qualified ...

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20 July 2023

Mindful Nature Walks for Families, helping beat the cost of living crisis this summer. Parent Sanctuary is pleased to offer mindful nature walks for families during the summer holidays. These ...

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19 July 2023

Students from Kirklees College took part in a Dragons’ Den-style marketing assignment with Silver #HD8member recruitment specialists Stafflex. Huddersfield-based Stafflex teamed up with Kirklees College to put students from the ...

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3 July 2023

Over £1000 raised for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in Ice Bath Challenge and a half-term fundraising day! A day of selfcare, relaxation and chilling out, in a nice ice bath, ...

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28 June 2023

Are you part of a sports group, a community group, a voluntary non profit organisation? We have free promotions and ways for your tell people what you do and what ...

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27 June 2023

We are Royal Voluntary Service and we run a free home library delivery service. We delivery library material every 4 weeks directly to the readers’ door. We have a full ...

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21 June 2023

Your chance to say what you love about our village, and also where you’d like to see things change. Skelmanthorpe Community Centre, ward and parish councillors, Kirklees Council and community ...

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19 June 2023

An opportunity exists in arts and culture in the community, based in Skelmanthorpe. This is a hugely satisfying and rewarding role, although not in the pecuniary sense; it is entirely ...

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19 June 2023

HD8 Network member and award winning recruitment agency Stafflex, has pledged its support to local community group, Pure Elegance Carnival. The Pure Elegance Carnival is a dynamic and vibrant community ...

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7 June 2023

This morning we received an email from a service user of the Denby Dale Centre, who can’t see very well, who is asking if we would share a Volunteering opportunity ...

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6 June 2023

It’s Volunteers Week this week, which is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering in their communities. Volunteering is a wonderful way ...

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22 May 2023

The Kirkburton Beer Festival is well and truly on it’s way to being a fantastic weekend, this bank holiday. Visit the Kirkburton Beer Festival event listing on our website here – ...

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24 March 2023

7th Huddersfield South East Clayton West Scout Group need Leaders Have you got an hour or two free per week? Have you got skills to share? Do you want to ...

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3 March 2023

It’s not an easy task. With the cost of living crisis and extra financial costs we face with raising children, families are feeling the pinch and the heating is being ...

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20 February 2023

The Bridge Community Hub are working in partnership Kirklees Families together to create an event for our families in HD8. The family Funday Day will be held at Skelmanthorpe Youth ...

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22 November 2022

How many Marathons have you run? I am not entirely sure if you collated all the times that I have run, in my entire life, that it would collectively amount ...

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22 August 2022

The posts you see in our Facebook Groups – as with those shared on our stories and our walls – which promote organisation and their products, services, offers and events ...

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5 July 2022

Did you know that Bronze Membership for Community Groups and Charities is Free? Baby group to Book club, official Football clubs to informal Rounders weekly meet ups, registered Charities to ...

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20 June 2022

We have just spoken to Richard from Denby Dale Cricket Club who has said that they are having the worst season they have ever had – because of the weather! ...

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11 May 2022

Here is an overview of how Village Art, Skelmanthorpe, came about and the progress it has made over the year, explained by Village Art’s curator Mike Roberts. In 2019 Denby ...

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