Foster Care Fortnight, running from 12 to 25 May, celebrates the dedication of East Riding foster carers, and raise awareness of the growing need for more people to consider fostering.
The Fostering Network’s annual campaign this year focuses on ‘the power of relationships’. Throughout the week East Riding Fostering is encouraging foster carers to take an hour to nurture relationships – from taking a walk, sharing a cake to hosting a family fun day!
A Hull-based social care provider is offering its training expertise to the wider business community for the first time.
The HICA Group, which provides care and support to older people and adults with learning disabilities across Yorkshire, has expanded its long-established in-house training offer to local employers, charities and individuals through its new Hull-based training academy.
One of Hull’s most prominent businesses has received another national award for its workplace travel plan, which encourages and supports its workforce to walk, cycle and use public transport for their daily commute.
Rix Group, the sixth-generation, family-owned business, with a portfolio of 22 companies ranging across many industries, has received a ‘Very Good Travel Plan’ award from Modeshift STARS Business programme, its second accolade in just over 12 months.
700 low-income households in the East Riding will be provided with energy efficiency upgrades, due to East Riding of Yorkshire Council and government funding.
£1.6 million has been provided by the Warms Home Local Grant, from the Department for Energy and Net Zero (DESNZ), for free energy works to 103 private sector homes. Eligible properties across the region will receive wall insulation, loft top up, glazing improvements, and heating upgrades.
Los Angeles-based author Debbie Wastling will visit the East Riding, as part of East Riding Libraries’ author events, for a series of talks and meet and greets.
Debbie Wastling, born and raised in the East Riding, has written three novels, including her latest, The Sutherland Scandals. She will be presenting historical photos and reading from the novel, at local libraries in the East Riding.
The UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, McCarthy Stone, has launched a new selection of apartments for rent, making the company one of the country’s largest and most experienced retirement rental providers. Brand new apartments are now available to rent at Westwood Manor in Beverley, East Riding. Responding to the growing trend to rent in later life these new apartments, exclusively available for over 70s, are expected to be popular with retirees.
McCarthy Stone is committed to making all the benefits of the retirement living lifestyle more accessible than ever before. The launch of additional rental apartments is in response to demand from older people currently living in homes that are becoming unsuitable for their needs, and wanting to move or downsize to a property that suits later life living.
It’s the age of streaming, with billions of plays, global reach, and… a pay cheque that barely covers the cost of a flat white. If you’re also stuck staring into the abyss of your bank account, you’re not alone. Most artists in the UK say they struggle to make ends meet, and their complaints are only getting louder.
The industry of corporate law needs both technical expertise and unwavering ethical commitment. According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the agency received close to 11,000 reports about solicitors and law firms they regulate in 2022/2023. This shows the frequency of ethical challenges in legal practice. For corporate lawyers going through this complex terrain, maintaining integrity is essential for sustainable client relationships and preserving the reputation of the legal profession itself.
The ever-popular free compost giveaways for East Riding residents will return in May.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team will once again be handing out 5,000 bags of compost – 60 tonnes – to local residents over the space of eight events, being held from May 3 to 17.
An East Riding project aimed at cutting carbon and saving energy in street lights on major roads has been praised in a visit by a transport minister.
Lillian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Future of Roads at the Department for Transport, visited the village of Hayton, near Pocklington, for a guided tour of one of the sites of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s innovative street lights trial.
East Yorkshire Local Food & Rural Tourism Network held a launch for the latest edition of the ‘Enjoy Local Food and Drink Guide’, alongside a variety of talks, at their recent Spring Event at The Manor Rooms on The Drewton Estate, South Cave.
The Network includes a variety of businesses across the East Riding, benefits from a business-led steering group and is facilitated by East Riding of Yorkshire council’s rural policy and partnerships team. This year’s event and guide were funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
A new carbon-saving electric bike is being trialled by the porter team at Castle Hill Hospital thanks to a partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The council’s sustainable transport team is continuing its award-winning collaboration with NHS Humber Health Partnership at the Castle Hill site in Cottingham.
Pocklington town centre will host a bustling food and drink festival on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April.
Taking place in the heart of the town centre, join in the fun from 9am to 6pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday, where stalls will line Market Place, leading to a stage and seating areas in St Peter’s Square.
Building work will be taking place at Fir Trees Nursery School in Beverley – which recently received an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rating – to increase nursery places and provide an enhanced offering to children aged 0 – 4 years in the East Riding.
Plans include conversion of an outdoor barn – which is currently used for outdoor activities – into a warm and welcoming indoor space. The main nursery building will also be reconfigured to create three, new open plan spaces, with a free flow pathway connecting them all.
Visitors are in for an egg-citing treat this Easter at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, with a fun filled line-up of family-friendly activities taking place throughout the school holidays.
From Monday 7 April to Sunday 20 April, visitors can enjoy an exciting mix of live entertainment, hands-on workshops, and interactive experiences in the setting of the historic Sewerby estate.
Pocklington Children’s Centre sessions will be relocating from 1 June, as the existing building will be demolished as part of Woldgate School and Sixth Form College new build school.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is engaging with families who attend the sessions about how these run in the future.
A free theatre performance inspired by the new ‘Yes to Quit’ smoking campaign will be performed in Trinity Market and St Stephen’s on Friday April 11.
The campaign launched in Hull and other areas at the end of March, with TV, radio, transport and social media ads. It asks audiences ‘What will you miss?’ more than smoking, such as weddings, births and special time with loved ones. The question is a reality for many smokers, with two in three dying too soon of smoking-related conditions.
Hull City Council and the region’s two main bus operators – East Yorkshire Buses and Stagecoach East Midlands – have welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT) announcement of additional funding for the rollout of electric buses in Hull.
The Government confirmed it has made £3,907,844 available to increase the scope of the region’s ZEBRA2 (zero emission bus regional areas) project and enable the purchase of 42 more electric buses for use in the city – bringing the total number of new electric buses that will soon be operating in the region to 82.