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Holbeck Together was the winner of the Children’s Choice Award – Best place in Leeds.

Group photo of everyone who was highly commended for an award at the Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2026.

Family Action’s Leeds Young Carers Support Service won the Champion of the Child Friendly Leeds 12 wishes award.

Chloe Smith won the award for Child or Young Person of the year.

Anna Hull, an Active Leeds swimming tutor, won The Sue Rumbold Award - Adult of the Year.

Afrikindness was the third sector winner of the Overall contribution to making Leeds a child friendly city award.

'Bin your gum' message on a street (image courtesy of Chewing Gum Task Force/Keep Britain Tidy)

Among the historic treasures which will form part of the exhibition will be a microfilmed collection of material from the life and career of pioneering Leeds feminist Mary Gawthorpe and a one-of-a-kind copy of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, known as the first written history of Leeds. Pictured is special collections librarian Antony Ramm at the library.

Among the historic treasures which will form part of the exhibition will be a microfilmed collection of material from the life and career of pioneering Leeds feminist Mary Gawthorpe and a one-of-a-kind copy of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, known as the first written history of Leeds. Pictured is special collections librarian Antony Ramm at the library.

Among the historic treasures which will form part of the exhibition will be a microfilmed collection of material from the life and career of pioneering Leeds feminist Mary Gawthorpe and a one-of-a-kind copy of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, known as the first written history of Leeds. Pictured is special collections librarian Antony Ramm at the library.

Among the historic treasures which will form part of the exhibition will be a microfilmed collection of material from the life and career of pioneering Leeds feminist Mary Gawthorpe and a one-of-a-kind copy of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, known as the first written history of Leeds.

Among the historic treasures which will form part of the exhibition will be a microfilmed collection of material from the life and career of pioneering Leeds feminist Mary Gawthorpe and a one-of-a-kind copy of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis, known as the first written history of Leeds.