Leeds Civic Trust
@leedscivictrust.bsky.social
Independent charity interested about the past, present and future of the city of Leeds.
https://linktr.ee/LeedsCivicTrust
https://linktr.ee/LeedsCivicTrust
We want to know your thoughts about Leeds' heritage. By heritage we mean our buildings, landscapes and objects, stories, festivals, traditions and beliefs. This is your opportunity to say what you value and what about Leeds is important to you.
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We want to know your thoughts about Leeds' heritage. By heritage we mean our buildings, landscapes and objects, stories, festivals, traditions and beliefs. This is your opportunity to say what you value and what about Leeds is important to you.
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
📸 Here's a beautiful photo of our office in the early 1970s when it was home to the Normandy Cafe. We were delighted to be visited by the family who ran the Normandy Cafe earlier this year. Our upstairs offices were once their family's flat above the cafe!
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📸 Here's a beautiful photo of our office in the early 1970s when it was home to the Normandy Cafe. We were delighted to be visited by the family who ran the Normandy Cafe earlier this year. Our upstairs offices were once their family's flat above the cafe!
📣VOTE FOR LEEDS' BEST BUILDING OF THE LAST 60 YEARS📣
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📣VOTE FOR LEEDS' BEST BUILDING OF THE LAST 60 YEARS📣
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
📣5 days left to nominate a building for the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social People's Choice Award! Nominate your favourite building in Leeds built in the last 60 years for this special prize.
🔗zurl.co/LRGBY
🔗zurl.co/LRGBY
September 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📣5 days left to nominate a building for the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social People's Choice Award! Nominate your favourite building in Leeds built in the last 60 years for this special prize.
🔗zurl.co/LRGBY
🔗zurl.co/LRGBY
⏰One week until Heritage Open Days 2025!
🎉The festival runs 12-21 September and sees 299 FREE events take place in Leeds.
🔗You can find a list of all the Leeds events on our website, along with our digital Heritage Open Days booklet: zurl.co/AhqTF
🎉The festival runs 12-21 September and sees 299 FREE events take place in Leeds.
🔗You can find a list of all the Leeds events on our website, along with our digital Heritage Open Days booklet: zurl.co/AhqTF
September 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
⏰One week until Heritage Open Days 2025!
🎉The festival runs 12-21 September and sees 299 FREE events take place in Leeds.
🔗You can find a list of all the Leeds events on our website, along with our digital Heritage Open Days booklet: zurl.co/AhqTF
🎉The festival runs 12-21 September and sees 299 FREE events take place in Leeds.
🔗You can find a list of all the Leeds events on our website, along with our digital Heritage Open Days booklet: zurl.co/AhqTF
📣More Heritage Open Days booklets have been dropped off to all Leeds Libraries, museums and galleries!
🔗 zurl.co/uKecK
🔗 zurl.co/uKecK
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
📣More Heritage Open Days booklets have been dropped off to all Leeds Libraries, museums and galleries!
🔗 zurl.co/uKecK
🔗 zurl.co/uKecK
🔵For Heritage Open Days 2025, we are delighted to unveil our 204th Blue Plaque to celebrate Gipton Fire Station, a vital part of East Leeds’ history that served the community for nearly eight decades and is now repurposed as a Community Hub.
🔗zurl.co/EdMlL
🔗zurl.co/EdMlL
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🔵For Heritage Open Days 2025, we are delighted to unveil our 204th Blue Plaque to celebrate Gipton Fire Station, a vital part of East Leeds’ history that served the community for nearly eight decades and is now repurposed as a Community Hub.
🔗zurl.co/EdMlL
🔗zurl.co/EdMlL
📰Leeds Civic Trust members receive our monthly newsletter, 'Outlook', which contains the latest news in the world of planning, development & transport; our latest events and a whole host of guest articles.
👉Join our 800 members and sign up here zurl.co/3KHIG
👉Join our 800 members and sign up here zurl.co/3KHIG
August 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📰Leeds Civic Trust members receive our monthly newsletter, 'Outlook', which contains the latest news in the world of planning, development & transport; our latest events and a whole host of guest articles.
👉Join our 800 members and sign up here zurl.co/3KHIG
👉Join our 800 members and sign up here zurl.co/3KHIG
🦉 You can pick up our Heritage Open Days booklet in any Leeds Library, Museum, or Gallery. You'll also see them dotted around your community hubs and cafes!
💻 You can also flick through the digital version of our booklet on our website: zurl.co/D4M3G
💻 You can also flick through the digital version of our booklet on our website: zurl.co/D4M3G
August 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🦉 You can pick up our Heritage Open Days booklet in any Leeds Library, Museum, or Gallery. You'll also see them dotted around your community hubs and cafes!
💻 You can also flick through the digital version of our booklet on our website: zurl.co/D4M3G
💻 You can also flick through the digital version of our booklet on our website: zurl.co/D4M3G
We're delighted to unveil our 203rd blue plaque for TV Harrison Sports Ground. This ground has been used for organised sport since the 1850s. After a campaign to save the ground from redevelopment, Leeds United purchased the site to protect it for sport. 🔗zurl.co/X75Gs
August 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We're delighted to unveil our 203rd blue plaque for TV Harrison Sports Ground. This ground has been used for organised sport since the 1850s. After a campaign to save the ground from redevelopment, Leeds United purchased the site to protect it for sport. 🔗zurl.co/X75Gs
🚨You have 4 more days to register your events for HODs 2025!
🏰The festival runs 12-21 September and sees hundreds of FREE events take place across the country.
👉Find out more about what's on in Leeds on our website: 🔗 zurl.co/maVHD
🏰The festival runs 12-21 September and sees hundreds of FREE events take place across the country.
👉Find out more about what's on in Leeds on our website: 🔗 zurl.co/maVHD
August 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🚨You have 4 more days to register your events for HODs 2025!
🏰The festival runs 12-21 September and sees hundreds of FREE events take place across the country.
👉Find out more about what's on in Leeds on our website: 🔗 zurl.co/maVHD
🏰The festival runs 12-21 September and sees hundreds of FREE events take place across the country.
👉Find out more about what's on in Leeds on our website: 🔗 zurl.co/maVHD
🤔 Ever wondered what 6000 Heritage Open Days booklets look like? Wonder no more! We'll be sending our Heritage Open Days booklets out to our members in the post very soon. Not a Leeds Civic Trust member? Get a booklet at Kirkstall Festival on 12 July
🔗zurl.co/s0Lnw
🔗zurl.co/s0Lnw
July 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🤔 Ever wondered what 6000 Heritage Open Days booklets look like? Wonder no more! We'll be sending our Heritage Open Days booklets out to our members in the post very soon. Not a Leeds Civic Trust member? Get a booklet at Kirkstall Festival on 12 July
🔗zurl.co/s0Lnw
🔗zurl.co/s0Lnw
📹A few months ago, we hired an intern to carry out an oral histories project.
🎤Our intern Sakshi is interviewing Leeds Civic Trust members, volunteers and stakeholders to create a video documentary about our work over the last 60 years...
🎤Our intern Sakshi is interviewing Leeds Civic Trust members, volunteers and stakeholders to create a video documentary about our work over the last 60 years...
July 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📹A few months ago, we hired an intern to carry out an oral histories project.
🎤Our intern Sakshi is interviewing Leeds Civic Trust members, volunteers and stakeholders to create a video documentary about our work over the last 60 years...
🎤Our intern Sakshi is interviewing Leeds Civic Trust members, volunteers and stakeholders to create a video documentary about our work over the last 60 years...
📚Historian Steven Burt and Urban Geographer Rachael Unsworth are publishing a book on the history of Chapel Allerton. They are campaigning for 400 people to reserve a copy of the book.
🔗Reserve a copy and watch two promotional online lectures here: zurl.co/5EX8n
🔗Reserve a copy and watch two promotional online lectures here: zurl.co/5EX8n
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📚Historian Steven Burt and Urban Geographer Rachael Unsworth are publishing a book on the history of Chapel Allerton. They are campaigning for 400 people to reserve a copy of the book.
🔗Reserve a copy and watch two promotional online lectures here: zurl.co/5EX8n
🔗Reserve a copy and watch two promotional online lectures here: zurl.co/5EX8n
🚍Inside the 1960s Daimler bus we toured in on Saturday were several signs that were on display at the time the bus was decommissioned.
By stunning coincidence, one sign mentioned Leeds Civic Trust! We were the publishers and vendors of 'A Guide to Walks on Footpaths in Leeds'.
By stunning coincidence, one sign mentioned Leeds Civic Trust! We were the publishers and vendors of 'A Guide to Walks on Footpaths in Leeds'.
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚍Inside the 1960s Daimler bus we toured in on Saturday were several signs that were on display at the time the bus was decommissioned.
By stunning coincidence, one sign mentioned Leeds Civic Trust! We were the publishers and vendors of 'A Guide to Walks on Footpaths in Leeds'.
By stunning coincidence, one sign mentioned Leeds Civic Trust! We were the publishers and vendors of 'A Guide to Walks on Footpaths in Leeds'.
We ventured across Leeds on a 1960s Daimler bus, from Leeds City Centre, to Kirkstall Abbey, to Middleton Railway, getting expert commentary from our trustee & historian Clifford Stead on developments in Leeds over the last 60 years & plans for the future.
June 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We ventured across Leeds on a 1960s Daimler bus, from Leeds City Centre, to Kirkstall Abbey, to Middleton Railway, getting expert commentary from our trustee & historian Clifford Stead on developments in Leeds over the last 60 years & plans for the future.
🐻Could you create a funded art installation at the Bear Pit?
📣Applications are open for Compass Festival 2026. Compass Arts are interested in projects which invite members of the public to experience this new cultural site.
🔗 zurl.co/L7F23
📣Applications are open for Compass Festival 2026. Compass Arts are interested in projects which invite members of the public to experience this new cultural site.
🔗 zurl.co/L7F23
June 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🐻Could you create a funded art installation at the Bear Pit?
📣Applications are open for Compass Festival 2026. Compass Arts are interested in projects which invite members of the public to experience this new cultural site.
🔗 zurl.co/L7F23
📣Applications are open for Compass Festival 2026. Compass Arts are interested in projects which invite members of the public to experience this new cultural site.
🔗 zurl.co/L7F23
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
Yorkshire Contemporary are transforming a plot of land adjoining Rowland Road Working Men’s Club into an accessible, green play space.
Yorkshire Contemporary are transforming a plot of land adjoining Rowland Road Working Men’s Club into an accessible, green play space.
June 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
Yorkshire Contemporary are transforming a plot of land adjoining Rowland Road Working Men’s Club into an accessible, green play space.
Yorkshire Contemporary are transforming a plot of land adjoining Rowland Road Working Men’s Club into an accessible, green play space.
📣Our blue plaques celebrate Leeds' history. We need your help to ensure their future! A Blue Plaques Fund has been launched that will be used to install new plaques, restore existing ones, and promote Leeds’ heritage.
👉Click here to become a donor: 🔗zurl.co/4UXx0
👉Click here to become a donor: 🔗zurl.co/4UXx0
June 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📣Our blue plaques celebrate Leeds' history. We need your help to ensure their future! A Blue Plaques Fund has been launched that will be used to install new plaques, restore existing ones, and promote Leeds’ heritage.
👉Click here to become a donor: 🔗zurl.co/4UXx0
👉Click here to become a donor: 🔗zurl.co/4UXx0
🤝Under 30s Membership🦉For the reduced rate of £15 per year, under 30s members receive all our usual member benefits PLUS an exclusive limited edition Leeds Civic Trust 60th anniversary tote bag AND can bring a friend to one of our events for free.
👉Sign up on our website:🔗 zurl.co/UucO4
👉Sign up on our website:🔗 zurl.co/UucO4
May 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🤝Under 30s Membership🦉For the reduced rate of £15 per year, under 30s members receive all our usual member benefits PLUS an exclusive limited edition Leeds Civic Trust 60th anniversary tote bag AND can bring a friend to one of our events for free.
👉Sign up on our website:🔗 zurl.co/UucO4
👉Sign up on our website:🔗 zurl.co/UucO4
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
Retreat 2 Rebirth are running engagement activities that record and celebrate dance from the African communities of East and North-East Leeds.
Retreat 2 Rebirth are running engagement activities that record and celebrate dance from the African communities of East and North-East Leeds.
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
Retreat 2 Rebirth are running engagement activities that record and celebrate dance from the African communities of East and North-East Leeds.
Retreat 2 Rebirth are running engagement activities that record and celebrate dance from the African communities of East and North-East Leeds.
We had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of @The Met Hotel on Friday. 🍰Our guests were treated to a complimentary afternoon tea served in the hotel restaurant, by kind courtesy of The Met Hotel.
🤝We are pleased to welcome The Met Hotel to our community of corporate members.
🤝We are pleased to welcome The Met Hotel to our community of corporate members.
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of @The Met Hotel on Friday. 🍰Our guests were treated to a complimentary afternoon tea served in the hotel restaurant, by kind courtesy of The Met Hotel.
🤝We are pleased to welcome The Met Hotel to our community of corporate members.
🤝We are pleased to welcome The Met Hotel to our community of corporate members.
❗Due to last minute cancellations we have limited tickets available for our behind the scenes tour of the Met Hotel at 13:30 tomorrow.
This special tour is led by the hotel’s General Manager & is followed by afternoon tea served in the restaurant.
🔗zurl.co/YDPs4
This special tour is led by the hotel’s General Manager & is followed by afternoon tea served in the restaurant.
🔗zurl.co/YDPs4
May 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
❗Due to last minute cancellations we have limited tickets available for our behind the scenes tour of the Met Hotel at 13:30 tomorrow.
This special tour is led by the hotel’s General Manager & is followed by afternoon tea served in the restaurant.
🔗zurl.co/YDPs4
This special tour is led by the hotel’s General Manager & is followed by afternoon tea served in the restaurant.
🔗zurl.co/YDPs4
📸To celebrate the launch of our new exhibition and Civic Day, we are pleased to host two free drop in events flicking through our extensive slide collection of Leeds 1988-1995.
📆Wednesday 4 June 11:00-15:00
📆 Saturday 14 June: 11:00-15:00
🔗zurl.co/ddpml
📆Wednesday 4 June 11:00-15:00
📆 Saturday 14 June: 11:00-15:00
🔗zurl.co/ddpml
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📸To celebrate the launch of our new exhibition and Civic Day, we are pleased to host two free drop in events flicking through our extensive slide collection of Leeds 1988-1995.
📆Wednesday 4 June 11:00-15:00
📆 Saturday 14 June: 11:00-15:00
🔗zurl.co/ddpml
📆Wednesday 4 June 11:00-15:00
📆 Saturday 14 June: 11:00-15:00
🔗zurl.co/ddpml
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
🌱@tcvhollybush.bsky.social Rhubarb Roots project celebrates the heritage of the Hollybush site with a focus on rhubarb & redesigns their gardens
🌱@tcvhollybush.bsky.social Rhubarb Roots project celebrates the heritage of the Hollybush site with a focus on rhubarb & redesigns their gardens
May 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social
🌱@tcvhollybush.bsky.social Rhubarb Roots project celebrates the heritage of the Hollybush site with a focus on rhubarb & redesigns their gardens
🌱@tcvhollybush.bsky.social Rhubarb Roots project celebrates the heritage of the Hollybush site with a focus on rhubarb & redesigns their gardens