Volunteering Opportunities Available For Beverley Puppet Festival

April 12, 2022

The award-winning Beverley Puppet Festival has now opened its volunteer positions for this July’s festival, the first ‘in-puppet’ festival since 2018.

At the same time, festival directors Kerrin Tatman and Anna Ingleby have unveiled an exciting, rarely available puppetry workshop which will be running between July 10th-15th.

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Donate To Help Stop Excess Winter Deaths And Hardship For Yorkshire Folk

Donate To Help Stop Excess Winter Deaths And Hardship For Yorkshire Folk
December 8, 2021

Two Ridings Community Foundation are calling on local people and businesses to donate to their Surviving Winter appeal as requests for support from people all over the region are coming in.

The Surviving Winter appeal, launched last month, has already raised £5,000 to support vulnerable people through the harsh winter period, but from the requests for support coming in, much more is needed

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Dragons Award £7000 To Cherry Tree Community Centre

Dragons Award £7000 To Cherry Tree Community Centre
October 15, 2021

Business leaders and regional investors alongside an excited audience of friends and supporters of regional grant-maker Two Ridings Community Foundation, came together at Birdsall House, Malton to hear six small grassroots charities pitch at a Yorkshire version of Dragons’ Den.

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£5K Boost For Community Groups Up For Grabs

£5K Boost For Community Groups Up For Grabs
July 7, 2021

Community Groups are invited to pitch at the High Sheriffs’ Yorkshire Dragons’ Den event to gain up to £5k of unrestricted funding for their project

Two Ridings Community Foundation, the regional funder who distributed £3million worth of grants in 2020/21, and the High Sheriffs of both North Yorkshire and East Riding, are inviting community groups, local charities and other not-for-profit organisations in the region to apply to pitch at their Dragons’ Den event in October this year.

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Two Ridings Joins #GivingTuesday The Global Day Of Generosity

Two Ridings Joins #GivingTuesday The Global Day Of Generosity
December 2, 2020

Two Ridings Community Foundation is thrilled to announce that we’re one of the thousands of organisations taking part in this year’s #GivingTuesday campaign, to be held on the 1st of December.

Brought to the UK in 2014 by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), this year #GivingTuesday offers the opportunity to #GiveBack2020 either by donating to charity, reaffirming commitment to a cause, volunteering time or supporting others by simply helping a friend, neighbour or family member.

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Appeal Launched To Help Vulnerable People In Yorkshire

Appeal Launched To Help Vulnerable People In Yorkshire
November 18, 2020

This winter, vulnerable people in North and East Yorkshire will be colder, hungrier, more isolated, and more anxious than ever before.

As a result, the Two Ridings Community Foundation is launching an emergency appeal to raise £100,000. This money will be used for essential funding for the charities, voluntary organisations and community groups that will provide a vital lifeline to our region.

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