Tesco Community Grants have funded thousands of local community projects across the UK, helping schools, junior sports teams, foodbanks, charities and community groups. Since 2016 over a hundred local projects voted on in Tesco’s Beverley store have received almost £200,000 in grants.
Beverley Town Football Club is helping promote Healthy Minds through their match kit.
Healthy Minds in East Riding information and support will be highlighted to thousands of families attending Beverley Town FC games in 2024 and 2025 through on the team’s match day kit.
Beverley Town Council is asking for residents to suggest names for new streets in the town.
When new housing developments are built, each street needs a name. The bank of potential street names for the Parish of Beverley, which is managed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, currently contains only one suggestion – Thomas Davie, who was the long-serving Medical Superintendent of the former Broadgate Mental Hospital from 1927 to 1954.
The Defence School of Transport (DST) have recently unveiled a brand-new Simulator Suite at Normandy Barracks, Leconfield.
This landmark event was attended by Air Commodore Crawford CBE, Commandant of the Air & Space Warfare Centre, highlighting the significant advancement in modern driver training methodologies.
Business leaders from across the region will be sleeping rough this November as part of the Big Hull and East Yorkshire Sleepout 2024.
On Thursday 7 November, leaders of top local and regional companies are invited (arms twisted) to be stripped of all luxuries and left to sleep out in the cold concrete stands of Sewell Group Craven Park.
Local friendship group, Humber Wolds Oddfellows, is inviting people to amp up their ‘frenergy’ this September by taking part in one of its special energy-boosting events for Friendship Month.
The non-profit group, made up of around 350 local members who are mostly older adults, says the events are being held to celebrate how good it feels to spend time in friendly company.
Officers from the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Trading Standards Service raided three businesses, on 29 July 2024, for selling illicit tobacco and vapes.
Trading Standards Officers raided shops in Beverley, Hornsea, and Driffield. They found over 10,000 illicit cigarettes, six kilograms of hand rolled tobacco (HRT) and a substantial number of illegal vapes. Officers responded to complaints to Trading Standards about the sale of illicit tobacco at these premises.
It’s the 14th annual Walking East Yorkshire Festival, featuring an array of activities from Spurn Point to Stamford Bridge. There will be guided walks and experiences across the county from 14-22nd September.
The festival’s organizers include tourism officials, partners, and volunteers from across East Yorkshire. As a partnership between East Riding Council and Visit East Yorkshire, it is administered by Visit East Yorkshire. Family-friendly activities include walks, cycling trails, and cultural tours.
Bellway Homes welcomed local community members to its Bishop’s Gate development in Beverley on Saturday for a summer celebration and the grand opening of the new show homes.
In partnership with local business, Alpacas At The Field, Bellway Homes provided a unique and engaging experience, allowing attendees to explore the development with alpacas. Additionally, one lucky visitor won the opportunity to become an alpaca handler for the day.
Beverley’s multi-faceted cultural offer includes a tradition of annual festivals, live arts and performances, visual arts, craftspeople, and heritage buildings. Together they enrich the fabric of our lovely town, the region, and its community.
Tesco’s Beverley store has been working with the Trussell Trust’s East Yorkshire Foodbank for over eight years to help fight hunger in our local area.
The store has a permanent collection point for customer donations which in the last three months alone has resulted in almost three thousand meals going to local people in need. Tesco also helps by making an annual contribution to Trussell Trust.
The Beverley Grand Prix, presented by Wren Kitchens, was a fantastic success; hundreds of cyclists raced around the town centre, for six hours of cycling events from four to 10pm. It was the first such event in the town since 2017.
The event featured six rides and races, including the finale of the British Cycling National Circuit Series, which was won by Matthew Bostock, of Ribble Rebellion
Retirees looking to downsize and live their retirement to the full are being invited to be amongst the first to secure their dream home at the new McCarthy Stone Retirement Living Plus development on Langholm Close, Beverley.
This comes as the UK’s leading manager and developer of retirement communities has announced that apartments at Westwood Manor are now available to reserve off-plan, with construction set to complete later this year.
Three-times Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Ed Clancy OBE is getting ready to ride in the Beverley Grand Prix presented by Wren Kitchens on Friday 26 July.
A former winner of the Beverley race, Ed said he has fond memories of the competition and is glad it has returned to the town for 2024.
Historical memories of an East Riding landmark, local residents and their rural lives are now available for all to listen to.
East Riding Archives has released digital recordings of interviews with more than 60 people who worked in the countryside around Skidby Mill, near Cottingham, in the first half of the 20th century.
Career-developing volunteer positions for this July’s Beverley Puppet Festival are open for applications.
“The festival is looking for volunteers with community spirit, love of the arts and an interest in ensuring a great experience for visitors,” said Vicky Yannoula, festival director (trainee), and volunteer manager and trainer.
People in East Riding are being cautioned about the use of fake versions of the drug Ozempic.
Ozempic is a drug prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes in order to lower their blood sugar levels, with the active ingredient semaglutide. However a global alert has been issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about fake versions being circulated to people to help lose weight.
Bishop Burton College is delighted to announce several of their Level 3 Extended Diploma in Policing students have been accepted into the Police.
Ella Edeson, Harrison Mann, Alfie Chapman, James Lancaster, Ivan Bartle-Milner and Adnan Kadric who will complete the two-year course this summer will be joining Humberside Police; and Mia Begg and Phoebe Redhead North Yorkshire Police.
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