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Chapel FM on the BBC & visit from West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin
Chapel FM’s work was featured in a nationwide broadcast of the BBC programme “The Breakfast Show” in November 2025. Also, in December 2025, West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin visited Chapel FM. Click here to listen to Tracy Brabin’s interview on East Leeds Community Radio.
Support Chapel FM – Make a donation today!
Make a gift to support Chapel FM’s projects – especially our upcoming Writing on Air stories on the radio festival… CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION Curious to find out more about Chapel FM? Click here to watch videos and hear stories
HIRE US: FOR RADIO, EVENTS, PODCASTS, PERFORMANCES, CONFERENCES OR PARTIES!
Want to use Chapel FM ‘s very unique facilities for you upcoming event/project/party? As a Community Arts Centre we offer many unique possibilities for renters including the ability for our team/technicians to create live video streams, record events using audio and/or video, use of radio studios to produce podcasts and...
Community Reporters – Journalism Course
Become a community reporter! The friendly and informal course runs over six, weekly sessions and offers a friendly and fun introduction to writing articles, taking photos and interviewing – as well as offering wider help and guidance on everything you need to know to be a community reporter. CLICK HERE...
Chapel FM Arts Center is closed over the Summer – 2025
Like many organisations we are closed over the Summer holiday period, for regular activities. This will be from Friday the 15th August 2025 – Monday the 8th September 2025 With some of the regular activities starting back up Monday 1st of September Please keep an eye on our website for all the...
Seacroft Goes Global Festival highlights
Here are some images from Chapel FM Arts Centre’s recent Seacroft Goes Global festival from July 2025 – part of our multi-year “Home From Home” project. https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Seacroft-Goes-Global-video-highlights.mp4
Seacroft Goes Global – Chapel FM’s 2025 Project
Over the course of this year, Chapel FM Arts Centre will be working with lots of people and groups from our community and across Leeds and West Yorkshire to gather stories about the many ways we are all linked to the wider world. We will then produce live arts events,...
Make a donation to support Chapel FM Arts Centre in 2025!
Chapel FM Arts Centre brings radio, writing, music, theatre, activism and so much more to our community of Seacroft, our city of Leeds and the wider world! We also run East Leeds Community Radio. Please consider donating to support our work in the new year. What can your donation help...
Explore our Giant “Writing on Air” 2024 Festival Radio Archive!
Click here to explore to the 75+ original radio programmes created by more than 200+ writers, musicians, artists, community members for the 2024 Writing on Air Festival at Chapel FM!
We are closed over the Festive Season
Thanks for getting in touch like many organisations *Chapel FM is closed over the the Festive Season. The building will *officially closed on Thursday 19th December 2024 until Monday 13th January 2025*, with many activities returning that month. Keep an eye out on the website for more details. This email...
Writing on Air 2024 Book – Now Available!
“Recovery” is the theme for writers in this second Chapel FM anthology for “Writing on Air” Chapel FM’s annual broadcast festivalof words and ideas. Stocked generously by poets and fiction writer associated with Chapel FM Arts Centre and East Leeds Community Radio, these poems and stories touch the nerve...
Upcoming Event Cancelations
Hi all We have had to cancel the follow 2 events “Bench Encounters Film Preview” and ‘Connecting Men’ We apologies to those who have been looking forward to these events. Unfortunately we have all been a super busy small team working towards our upcoming Writing On Air Festival on the...
Join our Board of Trustees
Help shape the future of community arts and radio in Leeds! Heads Together Productions / Chapel FM Arts Centre is looking to add 3-4 new members to our Board of Trustees Heads Together is the parent organisation of Chapel FM Arts Centre, East Leeds Community Radio, and UNION. Board members /...
Home From Home: Stories, Radio, Performance Project 2024
Get involved in Chapel FM Arts Centre / East Leeds Community Radio’s big project exploring the places in Leeds & Yorkshire where people come together to create. In 2024 we are gathering and sharing stories about: Creative Youth Spaces across Leeds where people make art and look after one another...
East Leeds FM’s new vibe
Hi, Henry the Broadcasting Worker here! East Leeds FM has existed in many different forms, starting off as a one-off project at John Smeaton School to travelling the world as the Caravan of Love. It’s broadcast on FM and digitally, been regular and been annual but it’s always led by...
Job Opportunity: Community Radio Facilitator
Job Posting Community Radio Facilitator Chapel FM Arts Centre – Leeds Deadline Friday 8th September at 5pm Click here for the application form We are currently seeking a Community Radio Facilitator to join Chapel FM Arts Centre in the autumn of 2023. The core duties of this position...
Career Pathways Chats for young people aged 11-18
Career Pathways Chats Drop-in sessions during February half-term Tuesday 14th 1-3pm Wednesday 15th 1-3pm Thursday 16th 4-6pm This is open to any young person 11-18 living in East Leeds looking for some advice about careers and opportunities in education and beyond. Whether looking at the arts, media, music, radio...
East Leeds’ Ice Cool Makeover
Last year, our friends at Kentmere Community Centre got hold of an ice cream van. Several driving lessons later and the van was ready to go out across Seacroft and East Leeds, appearing at special celebrations – like our Sound It Out summer projects! But you might not have spotted...
HOME FROM HOME: COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE
Are you aged 18-118 and live in East Leeds? Do you want to be involved in a brand new community project? Do you like to chat, enjoy a good natter or have stories to tell? Chapel FM Arts Centre’s home from home project has been collecting stories about special spaces....
East Leeds FM broadcaster wins Learner of the Year
Juwairia Junaid who recently was named Learner of the Year in the NCFE Aspiration Awards 2022. The NCFE (Northern Council for Further Education) is an educational charity and leader in vocational and technical learning. Juwairia has been coming to Chapel FM Arts Centre for many years. She’s part of our...
Seacroft Village Green Jubilee Celebration 2022 Photos
Here are some photos from the Seacroft Village Green Jubilee Celebration on 2 June 2022. Organised by the We Are Seacroft network. To hear an audio soundscape of stories and voices from the event click here. To find out more about Chapel FM Arts Centre’s new “Home From Home” project...
Job Opportunity: Centre Administrator at Chapel FM Arts Centre
Job Posting: Centre Administrator Chapel FM Arts Centre Leeds (Seacroft) Chapel FM, a community arts organisation located in Seacroft, East Leeds, is searching for a new Centre Administrator to help ensure that our arts centre and radio station can be an even more inviting and successful community resource by overseeing day-to-day operations...
“Home From Home” Project Meet Up on Saturday 11th June
Join us on Saturday 11 June at noon to find out about getting involved in Chapel FM Arts Centre’s new story-gathering, festival, radio and performance project HOME FROM HOME Click here to register to join us on 11 June What makes a place a “Home From Home?” Where are the...
Think Global Act Local’s Climate Change Diary
THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL are looking for some people to help with a project. Think Global Act Local is a brand new show on East Leeds FM looking at sustainability and innovation during the climate crisis. You can listen to their shows here. They’re starting a Climate Change Diary...
A dozen dazzling highlights from Chapel FM Arts Centre in 2021
To celebrate the start of a new year: a dozen dazzling highlights from Chapel FM Arts Centre in 2021 The world continued to change in unimaginable ways in 2021 and Chapel FM adapted, invented, mourned, celebrated and used the power of community arts and radio to help keep us connected....
Our Covid -19 Guidelines for Winter 2021 – Spring 2022
[Important notice masks will not be required when walking throughout the building but we recommend wearing them] As Chapel FM Arts Centre begins to reopen, we understand that it is our duty of care to provide a safe space for the public. We are still living in a world where we...
East Leeds FM at COP26
Since June 2021, here at Chapel FM Arts Centre we’ve been running a Climate group for young people to explore the climate crisis. These young peopled, aged 11-16, have met each week to look at the global and local effects of climate change. We’ve spoken to local activists and organisers,...
Whats Happening This Week! (Nov 22nd – 29th)
This is your weekly breakdown of all the great things happening at Chapel FM Monday Night Broadcast Special 7:30pm – The Disabled Table #3 – Join us for humour and stories! Discussing ableism in education, advice for going out alone for the first time as a disabled plus story-teller and...
Youth Broadcasters going to Glasgow for the COP26 Climate Summit
Chapel FM is proud to be bringing a group of young radio-makers, musicians, writers and activists from our Next Generation Youth Programmes to Glasgow for the global climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021. We’ll be gathering stories and other audio in order to create radio documentaries to be featured...