The East Riding Festival of Words will be back in 2020 – with a varied programme of free online events, featuring a range of popular authors.
The team at East Riding Libraries have put together the programme, based on their knowledge of the most sought after writers in the East Riding and beyond.
A brand new event, unique to the area, will brighten up December at Sewerby Hall and Gardens this year: Enchanted Winter Woodland will take visitors on a magical outdoor journey of spectacular sounds and lights.
East Riding Libraries have launched a new free service to digitally download a variety of popular eNewspapers.
Library members can now access a choice of over 160 national, local and regional UK newspapers, as well as over 2300 from other countries, offering a range of digital publications in 59 different languages, and hundreds of back issues.
East Riding Archives is asking residents to share their memories of the COVID-19 lockdown period in a new COVID-19 collection, which will be preserved for the benefit of future generations.
The archives team are looking for items like photographs of people’s daily lives; pictures of empty streets; pictures and recordings of the ‘Clap for Carers’ on Thursday evenings, or other thanks for NHS and key workers; or even diaries with notes about what people have been doing during the lockdown.
Hull’s popular Fish Trail is going digital thanks to a free app that can turn your mobile phone into a virtual time machine.
The trail, which weaves its way through Hull’s Old Town, can now be enjoyed alongside an app that brings historic areas of the city back to life.
Since East Riding Leisure reopened their sites on 25 July, they have launched a short survey for visitors.
It is aimed at trying to help gain feedback with regard to the monitoring of the procedures which they implemented following their earlier reopening survey back in June.
East Riding Libraries are pleased to announce that they will be opening their doors for browsing from Monday, 10 August.
Each library has been working hard to put the systems in place to welcome customers back safely, supported by the government announcement that face coverings will be compulsory in libraries by that time.
Skidby windmill which was built in 1821, and is the home of the Museum of East Riding Rural Life, is due to open its doors again on Monday, 20 July after being closed during the lockdown.
The mill’s opening hours will remain the same as before: Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday 10.00am-5.00pm, closed for lunch 12.30pm-1.00pm, last admissions at 4.15pm. These times may be subject to change.
A new partnership will deliver bags packed with creative activities and inspiring materials to 1000 vulnerable children and young people in the East Riding this Summer.
IVE, the Bridge Organisation for Yorkshire and the Humber is working with the Local Cultural Education Partnership and social services in the East Riding to deliver Bags of Creativity. The bags are designed to make sure all children and young people can be creative at home by providing everything they need in one place.
Following the government’s announcements on 23 June, East Riding of Yorkshire Council is now able to issue updates on the reopenings of more of its facilities for residents and visitors.
Medieval Beverley, one of England’s leading manufacturing towns in the middle ages, reached down through 600 years of history yesterday, to provide a much-needed boost for its modern-day residents when it was confirmed from a meeting taking place in Germany, that Beverley had been accepted as a member of the Modern Hanseatic League.
There has already been a big response to the online survey launched by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Health and Wellbeing service.
It was conducted to help understand the attitudes of its customers towards the use of the council’s sports and leisure facilities when they are allowed to reopen.
Beverley’s new Mayor, Councillor Tom Astell, has launched a competition for local children to create a tourism leaflet promoting Beverley’s landmarks.
The idea was inspired by a hand-drawn leaflet posted onto social media by local 10-year-old Daisy.
A well-known local ice cream business has recently become the 200th member of the East Yorkshire Local Food Network (EYLFN).
Burgess Ice Cream of Shiptonthorpe joins many other local businesses from the local hospitality, food and tourism sectors who benefit from the support of the network.
During these challenging times, East Riding Museums are reminding people that online museums can be a route to wellbeing.
Museums are featured extensively on the new Active East Riding website, www.ActiveEastRiding.co.uk
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has offered further advice to those thinking of visiting the coast and Local Nature Reserves in the coming days over the Bank Holiday weekend and beyond.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart has held an urgent meeting with the Managing Director of Hull Trains, Louise Cheeseman, to get an update on the train operator’s situation as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
Hull Trains have suspended their operations since 30th March following the Government’s guidance that services should be for essential travel only, leading to an increase in the number of people working from home.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Health and Wellbeing service has launched an online survey.
Its aim is to understand the attitudes of its customers towards the use of the council’s sports and leisure facilities when they are allowed to reopen.