December 2011 For immediate release Students spread festive cheer
Leeds Metropolitan University students and staff have joined forces with the local business community to hold a Christmas party for senior citizens in Burmantofts on Tuesday 20 December.
The party will be held at St Agnes Church Hall, Burmantofts, from 1-3pm and has been funded by Business in the Community partners: Leeds Metropolitan, Emsleys Solicitors, Leeds City College and chartered accountants Grant Thornton.
The party will see more than 60 residents of Burmantofts, who may feel isolated during the Christmas period, enjoy festive food, entertainment and carol singing in what may be their only celebration this Christmas.
Cara McCosh, Senior Project Officer at Leeds Metropolitan, commented: Helping to organise this Christmas celebration for some of the most isolated members of the Burmantofts community is great fun. Our team of student and staff volunteers includes around twenty international students who will not be going home for Christmas, which is a great way for them to connect with the community that they have come to study in.
Ends For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the Communications team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email [email protected]
Notes for editors: Leeds Metropolitan University has over 15,000 students and around 3, 000 staff. The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds. Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and Carnegie. Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding of the Mechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824. International students rated the University top in the UK for language support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010 Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in the world for the quality of its lectures. We have over 1,500 international students from 122 countries around the globe. The Universitys award-winning learning environments include
Broadcasting Place, which was voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New Building category.
