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About the space

Pride Place is the first LGBTQ+ community and cultural space in Leeds City Centre, brought to you by Pride of Place Leeds.

The event space being used by Out Together

The centre is the perfect place for any LGBTQ+ groups in Leeds and West Yorkshire to hold your meetings and events.

We are located right in the heart of the city’s Freedom Quarter a short distance from the train and bus stations. The space is wheelchair accessible (see below for full access details).

We’re looking forward to hosting you and your group!

Pride of Place Leeds

Regular events

As well as hosting groups, we have two regular events every week. See our socials for more details!

LGBTQIA+ Community drop-in

Every Wednesday 2.30 - 4.30 pm

Welcome to YOUR Pride Place!

Come on your own or with friends, bring your hobbies or simply enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the space.

LGBTQIA+ Co-working space

Every Thursday 1.30 - 5.00 pm

Make Pride Place YOUR communal working space.

Bring your laptop and enjoy our cosy queer space located in the heart of Leeds City Centre. Breakout room and tea & coffee available.

Supported by

Pride Place could not have been possible without the support of our partner organisations:

Leeds City Council
Inner South Community Committee
Leeds Pride Festival

Facilities

We have been open since September 2024 and we’re still in the process of fitting ourselves out. We would be keen to know more about your group’s needs, if they’re not covered by our current facilities.

We’d love to host LGBTQ+ groups for:

  • Meetings
  • Peer support
  • Workshops
  • Rehearsals
  • Intimate performances
  • Art exhibitions

The Pride Place event space, set up with a table and chairs

Our current facilities

  • Event space: a large room capable of holding 60 people standing or 40 seated
  • Conference room: a smaller room for seated meetings up to 12 people
  • Small private room: for phone calls or private conversations (up to 2 people)
  • Kitchen: tea and coffee facilities, a fridge and a microwave
  • Toilets - 1x accessible and 1x other, both gender-neutral
  • Free wifi
  • Video conferencing facilities (see below)
  • PA system
  • Tables and chairs
  • Sofa and bean bags (in event space)
  • Mugs, glasses, cutlery
  • Baby changing table
  • Community leaflet display

The Pride Place event space, set up without tables for a yoga event
The small private room
Accessible gender-neutral toilet

Video conferencing at Pride Place

Our video conferencing equipment includes a 65" screen and wideangle camera that can capture everyone around a large table.

Hybrid meetings at Pride Place are based on Google Meet. You will not need to bring your own equipment: we’ll set up the hybrid meeting for you and send you a link to distribute to your remote participants. When you arrive at Pride Place, you only need to select your meeting name from the touchscreen and your meeting will start.

You can connect laptops or phones to the session using “companion mode” if you want to interact with the chat function or present slides to the meeting.

Our equipment also supports Zoom and Webex meetings but these take more setup so if you need to use one of these technologies instead of ours, please be sure to give us plenty of notice to configure our equipment appropriately.

Our full hybrid meeting user guide is available here.

Coming soon

  • Conference table for the conference room
  • Projector screen
  • Community notice board

Bookings

Free2BeMe halloween mask making workshop

Pride Place is open now for bookings!

We’d love to hear from you about whether we can accommodate your group, either for a one-off booking or for a recurring one.

Bookings are open to:

  • Groups with an LGBTQ+ purpose
  • Groups with a significant LGBTQ+ membership
  • Groups that deliver services to the LGBTQ+ community

Our booking fees are a sliding scale - if your group has access to funds you will be asked to make a contribution towards our running costs that is affordable to your level of funding.

No group will be turned away for lack of funds - in many cases we will be able to let the rooms on a donations-only basis.

Please get in touch by contacting our bookings team:

bookings@prideplace.org.uk

We are a team of volunteers and one part-time administrator so please allow up to 48 hours for a response.

Support us

We’re always looking for new volunteers to join us, for example:

  • Helping to improve the physical space (furnishing, decorating)
  • Helping with sessions run by us, including the community drop-ins and coworking sessions
  • Helping behind the scenes with organisation, social media etc
Learn more about volunteering over on the Pride of Place Leeds website!

Jobs

Pride Place is mostly staffed by volunteers, but occasionally we will have paid opportunities available. Click here to see our open vacancies.

Call for artists

We’d love to exhibit work by local LGBTQ+ artists on our walls in the event space. If you have work you’d like to see on our walls, get in touch using the email address below!

Although we charge funded groups a fee, many groups use our space at no charge and we ask for donations to help cover our costs.

Click here to donate to Pride Place using PayPal

Anything you are able to contribute will help us considerably!

Find us

Our address is:

Ground floor, 12 Heaton’s Court, Leeds LS1 4LJ

Heaton’s Court is the alleyway off Lower Briggate between The Stone Roses Bar and Simply Pleasure (video), or you can access it from Swinegate via Blayds Yard (video). Our entrance is the door that is panelled with wooden slats, opposite the entrance to the Travelodge.

A picture of the entrance to illustrate the paragraph above, labelled with an arrow and the words 'Our door'

If you are travelling by car, there is limited paid parking directly outside, which can be paid for using the RingGo app. The nearest public car parks are Trinity Leeds car park and Q-Park Sovereign Square, both on Swinegate, near the turning for Blayds Yard.

Sadly, none of the spaces outside Pride Place are blue badge spaces. The Trinity Leeds car park has 8 designated wheelchair spaces and has assistance staff available. Please contact them directly through their website.

Access info

There are four doors from the street to the event space: (1) the exterior door, (2) the entrance to Pride Place, (3) the kitchen entrance and (4) the kitchen exit.

There is one step to enter the first door. We have a ramp to allow wheelchair access.

The accessible toilet is located in the event space, just next to the kitchen exit. The other toilet is located in the entrance hall.

The conference room is located at the far end of the space - you have to pass through the kitchen and the event space to reach it. It has a glass wall separating it from the event space and a privacy screen that can be drawn between the two rooms.

The private room has an entrance located in the event space. If you have booked this room, and someone is using the event space at the same time, we will let you know.

Unfortunately, we cannot leave the exterior door unlocked as we are not the only users of the building. You can contact the event space from the street with the buzzer, or your event’s host may prefer to assign someone to the door during gathering times.

If you have any specific access needs or concerns, please contact us ahead of your visit and we will be happy to discuss them with you.