Employees at Hull-based Ideal Heating and their colleagues across the Groupe Atlantic UK Division are celebrating after raising £47,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support during the past year.
It takes the total amount the company has donated to Macmillan to over £200,000 since its partnership with the charity began in March 2018.
Humber Forest has celebrated their relaunch this week at one of its many tree planting projects in the East Riding area.
The project, which was brought forward by the Beverley Civic society and led by local charity The Conservation Volunteers, saw the planting of 1050 trees at the Archery Fields, Beverley.
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Humberside, Jonathan Evison, has welcomed a Government funding announcement to tackle violent crime in our region.
The Home Office announced today that the Humberside policing area will join 19 other regions by establishing a Violence Reduction Unit to identify the causes of violent crime and lead the local response to reduce violence through targeted interventions and education.
Easter 2022 will see the Return of Easter Adventures to Sewerby Hall and Gardens, with a two-week programme of events and activities for all the family, including the ever-popular jousting on Easter Sunday.
Back for the first time since 2019, Easter Adventures offers a great mix of indoor and outdoor activities for all ages throughout the school holidays.
Hull-based vehicle branding company, Brandfixx, is calling on Hull businesses to rally behind one of the city’s largest animal rehoming charities.
The Hull and East Riding branch of the RSPCA is in desperate need of a new van to ensure they can continue their crucial work rescuing and rehoming pets from their Clough Road base.
Combating chaos will be the theme when three seasoned entrepreneurs set out to put the buzz in Humber Business Week from the outset.
Professor David Hall, who is leading the free event entitled “Succeeding in Chaos – How Entrepreneurs do it”, will be joined by Dr Paul Sewell, Chair of Sewell Group and a co-founder of Biz Week, and by Rob Daysley, MD of Designs Signage Solutions who admits he gets bored when things are going too smoothly.
Dervish, one of the world’s most imaginative interpreters of Irish folk music, will take to the stage at East Riding Theatre, Beverley on Monday 23 May as part of a run of live dates across the UK.
Recently recognised with a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, the Irish folk icons will be returning to stages across England and Wales this May, with dates in Beverley, Kendal, Bury, Cambridge, Grantham, London and Cardiff.
Tesco Community Grants fund thousands of local community projects across the UK, helping to fight holiday hunger, tackle mental health, support young people, host community events and much more.
In the 1800s there was an explosion of interest in natural history. Clergymen were particularly enthusiastic in embracing the subject, leading to the name parson-naturalist.
The new exhibition, which is now open at the Treasure House in Beverley, ‘Birds, Books and Belfries,’ explores the remarkable life and work of parson-naturalist Reverend Francis Orpen Morris (1810 – 1893) who studied nature, wrote books and campaigned for wildlife, all combined with his role as vicar of Nafferton and later Nunburnholme.
Help and advice to welcome people arriving in Hull and East Riding from war-torn Ukraine are now available via a dedicated telephone helpline and web pages.
Set up by Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire councils, the helpline 01482 300 305 will ensure people arriving in our area through the Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, have easy access to advice and support from advisers who speak Ukrainian, Russian and English, from 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday.
For those unsure what to do with the little ones or not so little ones during the Easter school holidays, East Riding Leisure centres are running activities.
To celebrate English Tourism Week Graham Stuart MP visited Jayne and John Scott, owners of the Trinity Guest House in Beverley.
He made the visit to talk about how they are planning for the return of international and domestic tourists now that all Covid-19 restrictions have ceased in England.
Inspired by his friend’s incredible selflessness, and in celebration of his life, Jack, aged 7, is donating his hair and raising funds for Hull Women and Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Unit at a fundraiser to be held at the Moulders Arms pub in Beverley.
Riley was a 15-year-old who inspired all those he met with his kind and generous nature. Riley sadly lost his baby cousins Mason and Miles in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
A village micro-pub and other pint-sized businesses are helping the Daisy Appeal pursue its fundraising target as it works towards opening a UK-first Molecular Imaging Research Centre (MIRC).
Regulars at the Centurion Arms in Brough are continuing their fundraising for the Daisy Appeal under new licensee Angie Tooke, who stepped into the role at the beginning of March.
This was another tough day at the office for the Blue and Golds, with positives again being drawn by the effort and enthusiasm that is being shown by the young squad.
It was a similar story to previous weeks, where Beverley looked to be building momentum but turned over possession at vital stages and the opposition took advantage. Sam French’s message to the players was again ”We need to play smarter”.
The visitors to Beaver park were Pontefract RUFC, flying high in the Yorkshire One table, and needing just one more victory to secure promotion their spirits were raised further upon arrival when they realised it was Ladies Day at Beverley RUFC.
Flamborough lighthouse will reopen for tours on Saturday, 26 March, for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Operated as a partnership between Sewerby Hall and Gardens and Trinity House, the twenty-minute tours offer breathtaking views of the coast.
East Riding residents can celebrate the arrival of Spring with a great offer from East Riding Leisure – Spring into Fitness.
Available to anybody over 14 years of age who is not already a member of East Riding Leisure, the offer will run from Monday, 4 April until Sunday, 1 May, 2022.