Anybody who recently enjoyed Gordon Meredith’s new play at East Riding Theatre, ‘Paint the Town Fred’, all about Beverley’s most famous artists, Fred and Mary Elwell, can go and see the unrivalled collection of paintings by both artists on display at Beverley Art Gallery, located in the Treasure House in Champney Road.
Beverley Town Centre will this week play host to a wide array of vehicles as the much loved EYTCC Beverley Midsummer Gathering returns to the town.
Taking place on Wednesday 22 June from 6 PM this hugely popular evening is an event which can be enjoyed by all the family.
Residents, businesses and community groups are being invited to give their views on proposed changes to some public space protection orders (PSPO) in a number of areas across the East Riding.
In 2016, East Riding of Yorkshire Council introduced 168 public space protection orders, one to cover every parish in the East Riding, to replace dog control orders, no drinking zones and gating orders.
The Blue and Golds will see this as another missed opportunity to pull away from the relegation zone. Having fallen 12-0 behind after only
10 minutes, they responded fantastically with 4 well-worked tries to lead 18-12 at the break. The second half proved to be a disappointment as they had to do far too much defending and struggled to create chances in attack.
Work is due to begin next week on the £234,000 redevelopment of four play areas in Beverley.
Play areas in Figham Springs Way, Burden Road, Samman Road and Browns Way will each be given a major overhaul and be fitted with brand new equipment.
East Riding College is proud to be part of Puffins Galore! and to have created one of the puffin sculptures being installed along the East Coast this summer.
Puffins Galore! hope to attract visitors to the area with the new art installations. The project follows the award-winning Hull and East Riding trails ‘Larkin with Toads’ and ‘A Moth for Amy’.
A film exploring the characteristic of Yorkshire folk has won a series of International Film awards ahead of its regional launch in July.
“Who is Yorkshire?” features stories by some of “God’s Own County’s” accomplished people, including Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, journalist Christa Ackroyd, rugby league star Jamie Peacock, playwright John Godber, presenter Stephanie Hirst, Lord David Blunkett and honorary Yorkshireman author and politician Alan Johnson.
Social workers are “enthusiastic and motivated” while they’re undertaking improved social work with East Riding children and families, according to Ofsted inspectors.
In a letter to East Riding of Yorkshire Council, inspectors found the “pace of improvement” had accelerated since their last focussed visit inspection in March, the fourth such visit since children’s safeguarding and support services were rated as inadequate during an inspection in 2019.
East Riding Theatre (ERT) will be auctioning off its herd of cows this month, with bids already being taken online.
An event to celebrate the herd will take place at the theatre on June 24th, where the bidding will conclude and the winners will be announced.
The Friends of Beverley Art Gallery donated a painting to the Beverley Art Gallery, housed in the Treasure House.
Beverley artist Neil Helyard, who’s been a regular visitor to Beverley Art Gallery since he was eight, has painted a wonderful portrait of a man named Peter Orton.
Six months after expanding its food business by buying Saxon Foods, a Hull-based business has boosted its commercial operations yet again with the purchase of another subsidiary company, with help from leading Yorkshire and Humber law firm James Legal Solicitors.
The world’s largest showcase of British puppetry in Beverley this July is bringing classic fairy tales to life to wow families and kids in popular venues around East Yorkshire town.
Anna Ingleby, co-director of the Beverley Puppet Festival, said: “Over two days and three nights the festival is a gathering of all that is great in British puppet theatre and showcases some quite remarkable work right here in the heart of East Yorkshire.
With one month to go until the Queen’s Baton Relay reaches the East Riding, find out more about one of the East Riding’s Batonbearers prior to the Baton’s visit to Beverley and Market Weighton in July.
The ‘Springboard Summer Tour’ starts on 26 June 2022 at the Memorial Day for Ivan Usher at Beverley East Riding Leisure.
The ‘Summer Tour’ is engaging with 16–24-year-olds across the East Riding and speaking to them about helping with their next steps to education, further training or employment.
Drivers waited in line at events to get their free compost bags, as the compost giveaways proved popular as ever.
Over 5,000 bags of compost were given out at nine giveaways organized by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling department.
Graham Stuart, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, has assisted over 30 Ukrainian refugees with visa applications since the war in Ukraine began.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. The Government launched the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which allows the British public to open their homes to Ukrainian nationals.
Awards that reward the region’s best, brightest, most successful, and innovative tourism businesses will return in 2022 and will continue to be a route to national recognition.
The 2022 Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards, the REYTAs, organised by tourism body Visit Hull and East Yorkshire (VHEY), has been officially relaunched culminating in an awards event in November 2022.
An exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery sheds light on the fact that Beverley was at the centre of the European art world in the 1960s and early ‘70s….
In 1962, the Beverley-based sculptor, Jacqueline Stieger, met the Austrian sculptor, Alfred Gruber. A personal and creative relationship followed that not only brought Gruber to Beverley but also introduced his European artistic friends to the region.