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Kirklees Concert Season 2025-26

Enjoy a selection of some of the most well-loved music that the classical world has to offer here on your door step.

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Cabinet to discuss funding approval for tree planting scheme to branch out 

Posted on: Tuesday 17 March 2026

As the accountable body for the White Rose Forest, the community forest partnership for North and West Yorkshire, Kirklees councillors will meet next week (Tuesday 24 March) to discuss funding proposals which would see the tree planting programme, Trees for Climate, continue up to 2030. 

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