A Yorkshire baker has handed over a cheque for £11,000 to Kidney Research UK following a year of fundraising – marking the firm reaching a milestone £100,000 total donation to charity over the last 10 years.
With help from their customers and team Thomas the Baker, which has 30 stores across Yorkshire and the North East, has set about raising money for its ‘charity of the year’ for the last decade.
Local Transport Projects (LTP) has celebrated 15 years in business during which time it has grown from small start-up offices in Beverley into one of the country’s leading independent transport planning and traffic engineering practices.
Founded in 2004 by co-directors, Tony Kirby and Andy Mayo, LTP has since worked with over 770 different clients completing nearly 3,000 jobs, including 565 transport assessments and 545 road safety audits, while expanding from a team of two to more than 20 employees today.
Ring in the festive season and shop for a good cause at the 24th annual Southburn Christmas Fayre in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
This year’s Southburn Christmas Fayre is taking place on Tuesday 12th November at 10am-4pm at Driffield Showground.
Businesses and organisations in East Yorkshire looking to recruit staff have been invited to the inaugural Helping Hands jobs fair.
The event will be held at Cottingham Civic Hall on Thursday, September 5th, from 11.30am to 4pm.
Following on from National Men’s Health Week this year Macmillan Cancer Support want to encourage the conversation of men’s cancer, men’s health and what you can do to help.
Beverley racecourse will on Bank Holiday Monday (May 7) pay its respects to former leading jockey Mark Birch by staging a race named in his memory.
Birch, who died of lung cancer in October 2016 at the age of 67, enjoyed a 30-year association with Peter Easterby and twice won the Chester Cup aboard the legendary Sea Pigeon.
Soroptimist International of Beverley and district are holding a fund raising events this coming Friday at Tickton Village Hall.
On Friday 16 March 2018 from 7.30PM the group will be hosting a fashion show that will showcase a number of local retailers.
Every year in this area, 2274 people hear the devastating news they have cancer and the number of people living with cancer in this area is set to almost double by 2030. This is why Macmillan Cancer Support are investing £1million into vital cancer services in this area.
An event was held at Castle Hill Hospital where volunteers, fundraisers and committee members were joined by Lady Halifax, the President of Macmillan to hear from Fundraising Managers Becky Read and Clara White, Macmillan Nurse Sarah Guest, and Macmillan Partnership Manager Lorraine McDonald about the exciting investment that is happening right here on our doorsteps.
Coffee, cakes and laughter are all on the cards later this month as the Tiger Inn takes hosts a comedy night and coffee morning in aid of Mcmillan Cancer Support.
Thursday 28 September will see the pub host a night of laughter while on the Friday 29 September the Tiger Inn will be joined by local businesses for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
East Yorkshire hotelier Paul Whymant is on the last leg of his marathon two-month cycling and poetry tour of England and Scotland during which he has visited 35 cancer hospitals and raised money for Macmillan Cancer Support in the process.
Paul, chairman of the family-owned Tickton Grange Hotel, near Beverley, will be dismounting his bike for the last time when he arrives at Castle Hill Hospital’s oncology unit on Friday morning (JUNE 30) at 9.30am.
Well-known East Yorkshire hotelier Paul Whymant says he feels privileged to be alive after a three-year battle against cancer.
Now cancer free, he is determined to give something back to those who helped him through what he describes as “a journey through a tunnel”.
Beverley Minster will once again be illuminated green in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Tuesday 6 December for the charity’s annual Christmas carol concert.
The concert marks the start of the Christmas festivities for many local people and will feature an evening of entertainment with a host of musicians, singers and readers, including the Bishop of Hull
A roof top garden which is tended to by an older person’s group at a Beverley based day centre has won gold in this year’s Beverley in Bloom Awards.
Graham Stuart, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, has welcomed the news that the Government will remove the ‘28 day rule’ for terminally ill claimants
PHOTOS showing the Beverley Minster which was turned green in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support on Tuesday.
The Beverley Minster will be illuminated in green in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Tuesday 8 December for the charity’s 13th Christmas carol concert.
Schools and a number of local businesses in Beverley have showed their support for the charity Macmillan Cancer Support by taking part in the fund raising event the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
Beverley Ladies Circle have raised hundreds pounds by staging a number of fundraisers which they will donate to Macmillan.