Over 20 carol singers collected an amazing £694.00 in Beverley on Sunday 5 December for Hull Samaritans. The carol singers sang a variety of carols and Christmas songs on Beverley Toll Gavel for over 3 hours.
“The response was amazing,” said Samaritans Director Rob Carlisle, “We can’t believe the generosity of people donating so much money.”
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is reminding eligible households that there’s still time to apply for a Household Support Grant to help with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials over the winter period.
As winter has finally reached us, we have something to cheer us up and to look forward to in those long, cold and dark winter nights.
Beverley’s Winter music festival, Stage4Beverley, is back again next February ( 13th – 20th ) after a year’s break due to COVID. Chris Wade, the programmer for the festival said “ the festival has felt so long in coming that we all now feel the need to get out and hear live music and entertainment. S4B is the perfect answer.”
After four and a half years at Beverley Art Gallery, curator Helena Cox will be leaving in January to take on a new role as Art Curator at the University of York.
Entrepreneurs and small businesses in The East Riding of Yorkshire celebrated the launch of their new Business & IP Centres opening in Beverley Library, Bridlington Central Library and Goole Library.
The launch event in Beverley Library was attended by 24 people, who were impressed with the range of resources available and will be coming back in their own time to explore them further.
East Riding College has announced that their Principal Mike Welsh will retire in Spring 2022. During his 4 and-a-half years in the post, Mike led the College through a very successful merger with TEC Partnership and raised quality and standards, achieving a Good OfSTED rating.
Bus company East Yorkshire have announced their Christmas bus schedules, including special Boxing Day services across the region.
East Yorkshire’s buses will be running to different timetables between Christmas Eve and 3 January 2022.
When a local writer, Hazel Hutchinson, found an old suitcase stuffed with letters, it was the beginning of a journey of discovery.
The letters dated back to the 1950s, when her father was in the Merchant Navy and her mother was at home in Hull.
Two Ridings Community Foundation are calling on local people and businesses to donate to their Surviving Winter appeal as requests for support from people all over the region are coming in.
The Surviving Winter appeal, launched last month, has already raised £5,000 to support vulnerable people through the harsh winter period, but from the requests for support coming in, much more is needed
Oxfam Beverley at 56 Toll Gavel is appealing for volunteers to help run the shop next year, and raise funds to help the world’s poorest.
Christmas is the busiest time of the year in the retail calendar, making millions for Oxfam’s work beating poverty around the world, but just after Christmas is when many generous donors give unwanted gifts to the charity or just have a good old clear out.
Customers at Genuine Gents, the Beverley men’s hairdressers, have raised £178 for its Movember charity raffle fundraising campaign towards cancer research.
The first prize winner of Genuine Gents hair and skin products including aftershave, hair tonic, skincare product, and wax was Lewis Nightingale; the second prize of a full-service treatment and the third prize of additional treatment at his next haircut was were also won.
The Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal Group is holding its last-ever fundraising event in Saturday Market on Saturday, 11 December – a tombola on their charity stall.
The tombola will be the final event after more than 15 years as a collective of fund-raising including retailers and citizens. The group has organised a variety of events which have raised over £50,000 to light up Beverley at Christmas.
A historic building in Beverley has undergone major refurbishment and restoration work to enable a growing college to expand its operations in the town.
Flemingate House, which is almost 200 years old, has undergone a £525,000 transformation to bring it back into use as the Beverley base of Linkage College, part of Linkage Community Trust.
For the second year in a row Home Instead Beverley and Hull have been declared a ‘5 star’ employer, showing that care is a worthwhile career path to take. The home care company’s employees have commended the company for factors such as top quality training opportunities and supportive leadership.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is inviting residents to provide their views to the Council on climate change in the East Riding through an interactive online questionnaire.
Residents will be able to use an interactive map of East Riding to highlight locations where there are opportunities for further positive climate action and express any opinions about climate change more generally through a series of questions.
Barratt Developments Yorkshire East is supporting education workers in and around Hull who play an integral role in their communities, by donating a contribution for every sale to the new home owner’s nursery, school, college or university.
Christmas period policing operations have begun as the police look to safeguard the community during the festive period.
Humberside Police say they will pay particular focus that affects the most vulnerable at this time of year.
Two developers with specialist experience in the health and social care sector have revealed multimillion-pound plans for a new residential home and 14 houses in an expanding East Yorkshire market town.
LNT Care Developments of Leeds and Beverley-based Lovel Developments have submitted two applications covering the project on a 1.37-acre site in Market Weighton which is earmarked for development.