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Like many organisations we are closed over the Summer holiday period, for regular activities. This will be from Friday the 16th August 2024 – Monday the 2nd September 2024 With many regular activities starting September 2024 Please keep an eye on our website for all the latest up to date info on when...
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 /...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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....
[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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Chapel FM Musicathon is a 24h of live non stop music marathon involving over 45 acts and over 200 performers all giving up there time and sometimes sanity for those playing at 3am to make it happen. Chapel FM has put on the annual Musicathon event every year for...
Job Posting: Community Music Worker Chapel FM Arts Centre – Leeds Chapel FM Arts Centre (a project of Heads Together Productions) is searching for a Community Music Worker to plan and deliver courses and workshops on using music to help people from our community and beyond (especially young people) develop...
The COVID19 pandemic meant big changes for East Leeds FM. For a period of time, we got a FM lisence and broadcast advice and support for the local community in East Leeds. Some shows have been able to still record remotely, and learnt new skills how to create shows from...
Here at Chapel FM Arts Centre, we are proud of all the amazing broadcasters and shows platforming brilliant music and poetry, having amazing chats and reviews and celebrating communities. This Info Pack outlines all expectations between Chapel FM, and the ELFM Broadcasters to make sure our shows and policies are...
Announcing Openings for Community Music Facilitators at Chapel FM Arts Centre We are accepting applications for music educators to work alongside our broadcasting, creative writing and tech staff to deliver youth programmes this summer and autumn at the Chapel FM Arts Centre in East Leeds. Ideal candidates will have experience...
We’re looking for VOLUNTEERS for our newly renovated and expanded arts centre in Seacroft, East Leeds As a not-for-profit organisation, Chapel FM relies on the support, enthusiasm and hard work of an amazing team of volunteers. In return for volunteering with us, we can offer you the chance to gain...
Chapel FM Arts Centre / East Leeds FM Radio is excited to have joined forces with two of our marvellous peer organisations in East Leeds, Space 2 and the East Leeds Project, to develop a long-term project that: Takes an asset-based approach to community development; Creates the conditions for co-production...
We present six hours of reflections on life in the Armed Forces, including in-depth oral history conversations with current and former service members, music, poetry, news and more. East Leeds FM / Chapel FM Arts Centre is pleased to be working with Leeds City Council again this summer to present...
We are excited to welcome the world back to the renovated and expanded, post-lockdown Chapel FM Arts Centre. See below for details on when various activities will begin again. During the past year Chapel FM underwent a big transformation. We purchased the adjacent church hall and fixed it up, adding...
In celebration of the power of people from our community to come together and support one another during the pandemic lockdown a new collaboratively owned and run vintage Ice Cream Van will be coming to Seacroft and Killingbeck in April. Delivering useful health and well being information along with art,...
An exploration of Anglo/Indian/Scandinavian drone to unsettle the enquiring mind! Come Listen in or watch a very special international experimental music night On March 12th at 7:30pm At least once a year Chapel FM has put on an experimental music night but being 2021 and being in lockdown we decided...
A very popular end of the month event at Chapel FM the Open Mic Night. As you can imagine like many places we cant do a live event in our lovely new expanded building but fear not we will be doing it online you can listen live on this very...