Featured Free Downloads

Location Leeds: open for business

Essential guide to the Leeds commercial property market, showcasing the city's premier business locations. Features out of town and city centre offices, retail and industrial premises. Published in association with Yorkshire Business Insider.

Leeds:The Facts
the key facts

Statistical overview of the economy of Leeds and the city region including information on key sectors, workforce, population and output.

Business in Leeds:
the key facts

Detailed information on the Leeds economy covering everything from financial services to the media, workforce and skills also providing an overview of the Leeds lifestyle including education, leisure and healthcare.

Holbeck Urban Village: a creative location for business

A fast developing location for creative and digital media businesses close to the centre of Leeds. Includes case studies of companies based in the area.

Government departments and agencies

Detailed report is available setting out the advantages of Leeds as a location for government departments and agencies. Includes case studies.

Shared Service Centres

Detailed report on advantages of Leeds as a location for shared services centres. Includes studies of shared services operations based in Leeds.

Making it in Leeds

Detailed report on the manufacturing sector in Leeds, including case studies on some of the city's leading manufacturers.

Conference Leeds

Guide to 290 venues for conferences, seminars and training events in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Pennine Yorkshire.

Education

There are 262 state schools in Leeds catering for over 109,000 pupils, making the city the second largest provider of education in England.

Leeds is committed to improving the quality and range of education by promoting equal opportunities, raising standards, building schools for the twenty first century, encouraging parental and pupil involvement, harnessing new technologies and linking with industry.

Children’s Services in Leeds provides an extensive range of educational and extended service activities including the Breeze youth activities, children’s centres, childcare and playschemes, sports and outdoor pursuits programmes.

There are also performing arts programmes in many schools, music centres in different areas of the city and an innovative city-wide ‘find your talent’ programme which encourages children and young people to get involved in cultural activities.

84% of 16 year olds in Leeds continue in education and anotehr 4% in employment with training after compulsory schooling.

In Leeds and surrounding districts there is an extensive choice of independent preparatory and senior schools.

Leeds has two colleges of higher education and five colleges of further education – including a dedicated College of Building, College of Music and College of Art and Design – with a combined total of 78,000 students.

Leeds College of Music is the UK’s largest music college with almost 2,500 students.

April 2009 saw the merger of Leeds College of Technology, Leeds Thomas Danby and Park Lane College Leeds and Keighley to form the new Leeds City College, one of the largest colleges in the country with 57,000 students and an annual turnover of £78 million.

Leeds has two universities of international renown, with a combined total of over 60,000 students in full-time, part-time and continuing education. The two universities are investing over £500 million in new teaching facilities, student accommodation and state of the art conference facilities.

Leeds Met offers over 468 full and part-time undergraduate courses. The University of Leeds has one of the widest ranges of academic courses in the UK, offering 700 undergraduate and 474 postgraduate degree programmes.

The Carnegie Faculty of Sports & Education at Leeds Met has been chosen as the location for the UK Centre for Coaching Excellence. It will provide world class coaching, medical and sports science expertise in a drive to establish the UK as the world’s leading sports coaching nation by 2016.

Leeds Trinity University College has around 3,500 postgraduate and undergraduate students and was granted the power to award its own degrees in July 2009.

The Open University has its regional office in Leeds.