Leisure and culture

• New community orchard planted on former allotment site

  16 March 2022

  2 minute read

  VOLUNTEERS have joined their local councillor and parks staff to plant dozens of small fruit trees on a site that was used as allotments until the 1990s.

• Refurbished gardens provide welcome green space for families in Highfields

  15 March 2022

  2 minute read

  A POCKET park close to Leicester railway station has been formally reopened after its £100,000 refurbishment.

• Steam toys in spotlight at Abbey Pumping Station

  2 March 2022

  1 minute read

  STEAM toys of all shapes and sizes will take centre stage at Leicester’s Abbey Pumping Station this weekend (Sunday 6 March).

• Jobseeking help in libraries extended

  1 March 2022

  2 minute read

  JOBSEEKERS looking for help finding employment can now benefit from specialist advice at Braunstone’s Brite Centre library.

• Exhibition remembers the ‘Leicester Blitz’

  1 March 2022

  2 minute read

  AN EXHIBITION created to mark the 80th anniversary of the ‘Leicester Blitz’ returns to the city’s Newarke Houses Museum this weekend.

• PhD student asks public for their memories of museum items

  15 February 2022

  3 minute read

  PEOPLE who were at school in Leicester during the 1970s and 80s may be able to help a PhD student with her research into one of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery’s biggest global collections.

• Pop-up hub to help breathe new creative life into Leicester’s historic Church Gate

  15 February 2022

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE are being invited to discover a new pop-up creative hub located in the heart of Leicester’s historic Church Gate.

• Museums go to town for half-term

  10 February 2022

  2 minute read

  A POP-UP museum at Leicester’s Highcross shopping centre next week will give youngsters the chance to create their own street scene model or make their dream car out of cardboard.

• Exhibition will celebrate 50 years of Ugandan Asians in Leicester

  8 February 2022

  2 minute read

  A NEW exhibition at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery will form the centrepiece of a programme of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the arrival in the UK of thousands of Ugandan Asians.

• Return overdue books for free this month

  7 February 2022

  2 minute read

  LIBRARY users who have overdue books can return them for free this month – and can also take part in a customer survey.

• Festival of illuminated art set to light up Leicester in March

  1 February 2022

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER city centre will be lit up with some extraordinary artworks next month, with the return of a world-class festival first held in the city in 2020.

• African Caribbean Centre could be run by community

  21 January 2022

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER’S popular African Caribbean Centre could be run by the local community in the future.