Visitors to the house on Saturday, 25 March will be able to help celebrate Mother’s Day and take home their very own card.
Between 11.30am and 3pm, children will be provided with all the materials they need to create a unique decoupage Victorian-style Mother’s Day card.
Hull Culture and Leisure Library Service have been successful in its bid for £243,783 to the ‘Libraries Opportunities for Everyone Innovation Fund’ to create a new Makerspace within Hull Central Library.
This investment will allow Hull Culture and Leisure to create a space within the Central Library where anyone can explore their creativity in the arts, science and technology – whether independently or collaboratively.
Sir Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire joins the impressive line up of speakers at The Business Day, a new Business Event at Bridlington Spa on Friday 9th June at the end of Biz Week for this intended annual celebration of business in the region.
The Business Day will place business networking at the heart of a day of discovery and insight. Speakers already announced include Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge CBE and John Simpson CBE. The Business Day will be hosted by Alexander Armstrong.
On Wednesday the 15 March 2017, the National Better Care team visited the East Riding of Yorkshire as part of their local learning programme to look at the work being undertaken as part of the Better Care Fund (BCF) programme.
Delivered through a partnership between the NHS, Local Government, Health and social care providers and the Voluntary/Community Sector, the BCF programme aims to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
A brand new weekly event has been put in place by the team at Sewerby Hall and Gardens aimed at engaging vulnerable and elderly visitors or those faced with loneliness.
If you are in need of some friendly company and social engagement then why not come along to the weekly ‘Sewerby Social’.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s public health team is supporting the annual ‘Act F.A.S.T.’ stroke campaign, which runs throughout the month of March, to empower people to call 999 at any sign of a stroke.
Public Health England has re-launched the national ‘Act FAST’ stroke campaign, which runs until 31 March, working closely with the Stroke Association.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has launched a new local drive which aims to get people walking briskly every day in bursts of ten minutes or more.
Just ten continuous minutes of brisk walking every day gets the heart pumping and can make you feel better, more energetic and improve your mood.
Hull City Council has joined forces with Keep Britain Tidy to launch a new campaign to tackle the epidemic of fly-tipping that is affecting communities up and down the country.
#CrimeNotToCare, which is being run in partnership with environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, aims to educate householders about the right thing to do with their rubbish and to reduce the amount of household waste that is fly-tipped by rogue traders who offer to take people’s waste away for money and then dump it.
BREXIT, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and fuel price trends will be the topics up for discussion at the inaugural Rix Agricultural Open Day in April.
Keynote speakers Duncan Lambert, director of Rix Petroleum, Mark Todd, UK Wholesale Business Manager from global Energy Company Phillips 66, and farmer and NFU board member Guy Poskett, will address the region’s farmers at the event on Wednesday, April 12th at the Rix Pavilion in Driffield.
The Tidal Waves team are reminding people wanting to attend the Tidal Waves Beach Music Festival in Bridlington on 9 and 10 June that ‘Early-bird’ tickets, priced at £14 for the Friday evening and £36 for Saturday, are available until 31 March, 2017. Festival tickets for both days are £48.
There are also child tickets available – £20 for the Saturday, or £30 for the full weekend. There will also be a platform for wheelchair users (restricted to 30 plus one carer/friend).
Following last year’s announcement of Hull’s ambition to become the UK’s skateboarding capital, skate jams, competitions and coaching sessions have now been organised to take place at various locations across the city for beginners and seasoned skateboarders alike.
Participants will learn to enhance their abilities, obtain skills coaching and advice and possibly some tips on tricks.
Sewerby Hall and Gardens, near Bridlington, are looking for volunteers to help with three aspects of their visitor programme in 2017.
Costume Project Volunteers are needed to help to run sewing and costume- making sessions in the Orangery every Monday during the season when the house is open to the public, between Easter and the end of October.
Flamborough Head Lighthouse will be opening its doors to the public once again for the start of the 2017 season.
From Saturday, 1 April, staff members from Sewerby Hall and Gardens will offer visitors informative guided tours of this iconic structure between 12noon and 4pm.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council staff are helping residents to get online as part of a two week campaign that includes drop-in sessions at multi-service centres (MSCs) in Brough, Driffield, Haltemprice, Hessle, Pocklington and Withernsea.
Be Online encourages people to use more online self-service facilities and access websites such as Learn My Way to improve digital skills with free online courses. These include online basics and safety, finding work online and CV writing.
Between 2005 and 2014, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) claimed the lives of 266 babies in the Yorkshire and Humber regions.
Health professionals in Hull are urging parents to make themselves aware of safe sleeping practices.
Sewerby Hall and Gardens have three weeks of family fun activities planned for the Easter holidays.
Between Saturday, 1 and Sunday, 23 April, there are plenty of activities and events planned for visitors young and old alike.
After raising over £500 for the Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind, 360 Chartered Accountants are now inviting other companies to follow their lead.
The team at 360 was charged with turning £50 into £500 as part of HERIB’s Challenge 500. And by using their entrepreneurial skills they did exactly that!
A free workshop training session will be held on Friday, 31 March for people wanting to learn about oral history.
This is one of the activities offered through the Bridlington Quay Townscape Heritage project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The session will take place at King Street Library, from 10am-4.30pm.