Homebuyers looking to upsize in Hull are set to enjoy the rewards of the change in Stamp Duty rules following the recent Budget announcement.
Welcome savings on a new home have been made possible as a result of the Budget, in which the Chancellor announced there will be no Stamp Duty to pay on properties up to the value of £500,000 on sales taking place before 31 March 2021.
A law firm which has been driving support for charities for more than 30 years with its annual golf day is drawing up a list of fundraising ideas for all after losing this year’s event to the lockdown restrictions.
Rollits, which has offices in Hull and York, has raised more than £140,000 since launching its golf day in 1970, with the East Yorkshire branch of Muscular Dystrophy UK a beneficiary since day one and Dove House Hospice in Hull receiving support for 25 years.
An established East Yorkshire memorials business has collaborated with a local grief charity to support its clients.
Anna Buckley, from Melbourne based Mindful Memorials (part of J. Rotherham Ltd), has teamed up with Talking about Loss founder, Jacqui Gunn for a series of events to help people who have experienced loss.
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.
As the lockdown ends, and the hospitality sector re-opens in Beverley, part of Wednesday market is being transformed into a European style pavement dining experience.
The East Riding Council has granted local restaurant owner, Ali Tekce, a licence to place 9 tables on the pavement outside his Mirage cocktail bar, and Chamas Rodizio restaurant.
A free webinar will advise employers as their workers start to return work and the signs of increased use of alcohol and drugs throughout lockdown affect the company.
Generis is a service set up by The Alcohol and Drug Service to work with a variety of organisations around the UK who have identified a problem with alcohol (and drugs) amongst workers, particularly in safety-critical industries.
Parkway Cinema Beverley is back open complete with a ‘Summer of Cinema offer and new website.
The independent cinema which opened four years ago in Beverley says they are looking forward to welcoming people back.
Following a period of strong growth, Drunk Animal Creative Studios Ltd. is on the hunt for the next rising stars in marketing and design.
Currently home to two of this year’s Top 30 under 30, the agency’s Creative Director, Calvin Innes, believes that the success to date, and the continued growth of the agency, lies in nurturing and developing a new generation of talented professionals.
Following the latest government announcement, East Riding Leisure is to reopen its nine Leisure Centres on Saturday, 25 July.
Customers will find many differences when they return, in order to protect their health and wellbeing, and that of the staff.
Richard Price, Licensee of the Sun Inn says it is great to be open again. Following weeks of being closed due to the lockdown, the popular Beverley local welcomed back customers at the weekend.
Richard said that he was pleased with how the weekend went adding that customers overall had been respectful of the rules.
MP Graham Stuart says it is time to start putting life and vitality back into the community. He is now calling for people to support local while remaining sensible when out.
Mr Stuart made the comments as a number of businesses in Beverley resumed trading following months of being in lockdown.
Beverley-based Lovel Developments is hoping work will start early in 2021 on the next stage of a project to build around 1,800 homes to the south of the town after securing planning permission for the latest phase.
Secondary schools in Hull have been developing how they deliver online learning to pupils
Secondary schools have remained open for key worker and vulnerable children only since the end of March, and have now invited back some pupils from year 10 from the end of June.
Beverley Town Cricket and Recreation Club located on Norwood, Beverley – home of football, tennis, bowls and cricket – have completed the purchase of a John Deere Tractor.
The purchase was made possible thanks to £12,500 that was awarded by East Riding of Yorkshire Council as part of Commuted Sums from local housing developments.
Beverley Art Gallery in the Treasure House in Champney Road reopens on Monday 6 July. Visitors will be able to see the two exhibitions which had just opened as lockdown began in March.
‘Journey Into Abstraction’ is a retrospective exhibition of the contemporary British artist John Sprakes, whose career spans over 60 years of painting and shows.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, along with Steve Montgomery, Managing Director of FirstGroup, Hull Trains’ owners, this week held an urgent, Ministerial-level discussion on the severe impact of coronavirus on Hull Trains.
The talks with the Rail Minister, Chris Heaton-Harris MP, were arranged at short notice in recognition of the firm’s ongoing difficulties.
Long-standing Beverley racecourse stalwart John Cleverly died on Thursday at the age of 86.
Cleverly was synonymous with the East Yorkshire circuit and served at the track as racecourse manager and clerk of the course between 1973-2000.
All council play areas in the East Riding are due to reopen on Saturday 4 July, following the latest Government advice.
There are 84 play areas across the East Riding – with play equipment such as climbing frames and swings for young children – but all of them have been closed since the lockdown began in March.