Brighouse Festival

Nine fun filled days begin in Brighouse on 22 October as the Brighouse Festival returns to town. This year sees a much expanded program of arts and entertainment with over 50 events taking place over the course of the Festival. With music, performance, art activities, spray painting, omedy and more, there will be plenty to see […]

Batley Community Alliance Gardening Project

On Wednesday 12 October and on Friday 14 October Batley Community Alliance are going to be doing some gardening in the town centre. And if you have some time to spare they would be very pleased to have you along, The planned works are the clearing and digging of borders ready for composting, trimming of […]

Knit And Natter

Bring along your knitting, crocheting, embroidery, etc to the new More In Common Batley Knit and Natter, which began on 05 October. Taking place every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month between 1:00 and 3:00 at Massarella’s Restaurant on the 3rd floor at the Mill Outlet, Bradford Road, Batley, this is an excellent way […]

And They Are Under Starters Orders

Come and join in the fun and help raise money for a good local cause at the St Mary’s Family Fun and Race Night at the Irish Nash in Batley on 30th September. Tickets £2.50 – Children FREE. This includes a pie and peas supper or hot dogs and pasties. Great prizes to be won. 1st pize […]

Vote For Friends Of Batley Station

Local volunteer group the Friends of Batley Station or FOBS have been successfully chosen as one of three local good causes guaranteed to receiving funding through the Tesco bags of choice community funding scheme. These three projects will now compete for the public vote in store to see who comes first £12,000.00 of funding, second £10,000.00 […]

Volunteers Open Day

The UK’s biggest online charity shop www.oxfam.org.uk/BatleyOnline is holding a volunteer open day on 22 September at their premises on Mill Forest Way in Batley. Between 10:30 & 13:30 anybody interested in volunteering for the charity can come along and find out more about what is involved. For more information contact Oxfam on 01924 351892.

Batley Festival

Now in it’s 5th year Batley Festival is back once again on 10 September. Running from 11:00 until 17:00 the event takes over the centre of town with lots going on. You can shop until you drop at the many and varied market stalls in the market place. With everything from hand made crafts, food and […]

Free Goodies

Keep your eyes peeled whilst in Batley from Friday 26 August, because free goodie bags have been hidden around the town as the organisers of Dewsbury’s free art Friday have made the short trip along Bradford Road. The lucky finders of the bags will receive free art, film related treats and information about this year’s […]

Memory Lane Cafe

The Friends of Batley Library Group is launching it’s latest new venture on Tuesday 13 Sept with the start of the memory lane café. The idea behind the café is to help stimulate both memories of the past and at the same time improve the memories and alertness of the people attending. For more details […]

Batley Bulldogs Networking Meeting 26 August

The Bulldogs networking meeting brings together local businesses, community groups, charities and sports clubs once a month for an informal get together over breakfast. Running from 08:00 until a little after 09:00, it costs £5 per meeting with no membership fees. The cost includes tea/coffee and your breakfast. There is a guest speaker each month. […]