West Leeds Dispatch community reporters' coure

Become a community reporter with West Leeds Dispatch!

The friendly and informal course runs over six, weekly sessions and offers a friendly and fun introduction to writing news 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 Truly Scrummy on Horsforth Town Street.

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.

At the end of it, you’ll become part of the Dispatch family of community reporters and earn a community reporters’ ‘press card’ and lanyard, as well as gain increased skills and confidence - and meet new people from our existing community reporters' network.

The sessions are run by former Guardian journalist John Baron, who is the editor of West Leeds Dispatch.

The course runs for six weeks and starts on Wednesday 21 May at Truly Scrummy cafe on Horsforth Town Street until 25 June. We'd love you to join us!