Become a community reporter with East Side Story's new course

Would you like to learn new skills and meet new friends?

If you’d like to get more involved in what’s going on locally, our free East Side Story community reporters’ beginners’ training course could be right up your street.

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. We can even help with spelling and grammar!

Our FREE course is aimed at beginners interested in telling the story of their community and runs over six, two-hour sessions at Chapel FM in Seacroft.

There will be refreshments, cake and biscuits – and it looks great on your CV as you will learn transferable skills you can take into employment or studying. We hope you’ll go on to contribute many articles for us.

The course run by former Guardian journalist John Baron, wh is editor at the West Leeds Dispatch, and East Side Story editor Janine Griffiths.

Our course starts on Tuesday, September 23 at 6:30pm at Chapel FM Arts Centre, Seacroft LS14 6JB. It runs every Tuesday for six weeks.