Charity & CSR

The enthusiastic team at Blacks Solicitors are always ‘up’ for a challenge (Cycling from Leeds to Paris, cycling from Newcastle to London non-stop and entering a team in this weekend’s Yorkshire Marathon), so when we were invited to enter the Brownlee Tri Corporate Challenge we couldn’t say no. The adrenaline was pumping when I arrived […]

Last night saw team @LawBlacks take part in the annual Wooden Spoon touch rugby tournament, with the heightened excitement this year of playing on the hallowed turf of Headingley stadium. With the rugby union World Cup coming to the city of Leeds later this year and the following fixtures at Elland Road; Italy vs Canada […]

Plan, Talk, Live is the theme of the Dying Matters Week organised by the charity Dying Matters to take place between the 18 and 24 May 2015. The aim of the week is to have the population talk about death and planning for later life both of which are such taboo subjects. Local events are […]

Few will have failed to notice that a large, annual awards event took place this Sunday. Ball gowns were chosen, dinner suits pressed, and gushing acceptance speeches prepared by all of the nominees. That’s right, this weekend the great and the good from the equestrian world descended upon Birmingham’s National Motorcycle Museum for the British […]

The ALS Association has raised a staggering income of $100m over the past four weeks from Ice Bucket Challenges. These are the highly amusing fundraising challenges which began in the USA and have gone viral thanks to the likes of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The ALS Association funds research into amyotrophic […]

Wednesday evening saw team Blacks (not the Silver Fern lot from the Southern Hemisphere) take part in the annual Wooden Spoon mixed touch rugby tournament at Moortown RFC. The evening was put on by the Charity Wooden Spoon to help raise money for mentally, physically disadvantaged children. With the real England squad heading into a […]

We are very excited to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Bingley Music Live festival. Now in its seventh year, Bingley Music Live will be held at Myrtle Park in Bingley, West Yorkshire between 30 August and 1 September. This much-loved, family-friendly music festival is shaping up to be an all-time classic with a diverse array […]

Sunday 24 February and Saturday 18 May were both proud days for me personally as I watched Bradford City Football Club step out onto the Wembley turf. It was a fantastic achievement getting to both the Capital One cup final by beating some outstanding opposition and the play off final. Despite the cup final defeat, […]

Yesterday saw the return of the Blacks Magic team in the annual Martin House Dragon Boat Race at Roundhay Park. Our rowers this year were captain Anna Rhodes, Aimee Hutchinson, Alex Hall, Euan Lawrence, James Teagle, Jenny Neary, Nicholas Dyson, Nick Rhodes, Sonia Lonsdale, Amy Crook, Beth Laidler and drummer Stephanie Round. We dressed as […]

Friday 5 April saw the first outing for the Blacks Touch Rugby Elite in the Sue Ryder Wheatfields  Touch Rugby Tournament. The team comprised Glen Salt, Geoff Cunningham, Tom Moyes, Andy Boyde, Nick Dyson, Dave Paterson and two of Dave’s ‘ringers’ Alex and Chris. The game was played at Wellington Place – Leeds’ answer to London’s […]

Blacks are very pleased to announce our sponsorship of the first ever Leeds Young Music Video Awards in association with East Leeds FM and the Leeds Young Film Festival. East Leeds FM and the Leeds Young Film Festival want to promote and celebrate the use of music video as a creative tool, particularly for young […]

Blacks are very excited to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Live At Leeds. For the uninitiated, Live At Leeds is a metropolitan music festival held annually across a variety of venues in Leeds on the first bank holiday weekend of May. In keeping with the ethos of our own Music, Media & Entertainment […]