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Facilities Directorate Charities Update – February 2018

Teams from across the Facilities Directorate have helped raise nearly £15,000 so far for our chosen charities, Alzheimer’s Society and Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. Staff got involved in #WearRedDay on Friday 2 February for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. Wear Red Day was created to raise awareness of Congenital Heart Disease, which affects as many as 1 […]

Facilities Directorate Charities Update – December 2017

Staff across the FD have been busy supporting our two charities over the last few months. Since 1 November, we have raised a huge £825.91 for the Alzheimer’s Society and £883.32 for The Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, taking our grand totals to £5,300.28 (Alzheimer’s) and £3,633.03 (Children’s Heart Surgery), a whopping £8933.31 in total. Special […]

Over £200 raised by the Elf Day Walk

Colleagues from across the University unleashed their inner Elf in support of the Alzheimer’s Society On the Friday 8th December, 34 staff, students, visitors to the university and Dexter the Beagle, got in the festive spirit by taking part in an Elf Walk around the University of Leeds campus. The mile-long walk took just over half […]

Latest view of NEXUS

We’re now a year into the development of Nexus and we’re excited to share a live feed of the development, which can be accessed 24/7 on the Campus Developments site. Nexus will be a high profile gateway to research and innovation at the University and UK-leading environment for collaboration and partnership and now you can watch the 6,684m² […]

Elf Day walk

Unleash your inner Elf and join us supporting the Alzheimers Society. Get into the festive spirit and join us on an Elf Walk around the University of Leeds campus at 12:00 on Friday 8 December. All staff, students and visitors to the University are invited to donate £2 and come along to the event in support […]

Brownlee Centre complete

The Facilities Directorate has completed and launched the new Brownlee Centre and Cycle Circuit this week after a ten-month, and £5m investment, at the University’s Bodington Playing Fields. The Brownlee Centre, chosen in honour of Olympic heroes Alistair and Jonny, sits alongside a new 1 mile (1.6km) cycle circuit – one of the longest in […]