East Riding Voluntary Action Services (ERVAS) Ltd is celebrating after being awarded £277,880 in National Lottery funding to support its new Volunteen Voice project, supporting children and young people living in East Riding.
East Riding Libraries have been delighted with the number of responses received so far to their customer survey, which was launched at the start of May to gather customer feedback from users and non-users of the service and inform decisions for the future. The survey is still available to complete from now until 30 May, 2021.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is offering support to people and businesses in the East Riding in order to help recover from the pandemic and stay as healthy as possible during these unprecedented times.
A business that is acknowledged as an international expert in driving sustainable change will apply its talents to post-Covid transformation as part of Humber Business Week.
Agencia will present lessons learned from helping communities around the world to make the transition from reset to renewal in the face of such complex issues as pandemic diseases, terrorism, corruption, and modern slavery.
MP Graham Stuart has welcomed that Beverley Minster pupils are keeping active and improving air quality by taking part in this year’s Walk to School Week.
This year, pupils and their parents across the country are being urged to ditch the car on the school run, and instead walk, cycle, or scoot to school.
Councillor Nigel Wilkinson has been elected as the new chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council following the authority’s annual general meeting.
Councillor Wilkinson, who has served as vice chairman for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been a councillor for the Howdenshire ward since his election in 2014.
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospice, Dove House is ecstatic to have the go-ahead to ramp up events.
Second on the lineup is the extremely popular Wine Dash which explores the Yorkshire Wolds with a walk or run through the picturesque Little Wold Vineyard, tasting wines from different regions along the route.
Vaccines are the hottest topic on everyone’s lips at the moment, but the COVID-19 vaccine isn’t the only one parents need to remember.
Vaccination is the most important thing we can do to protect our children against ill health. In fact, they prevent up to three million deaths worldwide every year.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, met local officials from the Department for Work & Pensions to hear about the Government’s flagship ‘Plan for Jobs’, specifically about the Kickstart Scheme, which offers fully subsidised 6-month placements for 16-24 year-olds on Universal Credit.
Bus company East Yorkshire has announced that nearly all routes will return to normal timetables from 16 May.
Since the start of the pandemic, bus passenger levels have been lower than normal as people were advised to stay at home as much as they could.
The TEC Partnership is delighted to announce it has become the region’s first FE college provider to receive Bachelor Degree Awarding Powers.
This significant achievement means the Ofsted outstanding provider, which offers higher education courses at University Centre Grimsby, Scarborough TEC and East Riding College, will have the ability to validate its own degrees from September 2022.
East Riding Museums are delighted to be able to re-open the Beverley Guildhall from Wednesday 19 May 2021 with a new exhibition, ‘Exploring Medieval Beverley’.
The latest research from Forrester Boyd has found that over the coming 12 months 67% of larger businesses – those with a turnover of more than £5M – are projecting increases in their income.
Conversely smaller businesses with a turnover of less than £250K are expecting reduced income whilst those with a turnover in excess of £1M – are also projecting increased income.
Stage4Beverley’s “Summer Outing” is delighted to announce that for its Saturday night event on 19th June it will be hosting a unique performance by members of Hull’s charismatic and pioneering Waterson/Carthy family.
Beverley Art Gallery in the Treasure House will reopen on Monday, 17 May with a brand new exhibition.
‘To the Water’ has been created by curators Helena Cox and Sally Hayes, and is a unique mix of art and social history, looking at the different ways in which waterways have inspired artists over the centuries.
Skidby Mill will reopen on Monday, 17 May with a new exhibition, celebrating the bicentenary of the building of the mill in 1821, created by the mill’s volunteer team.
It will look at key events in the mill’s history, some of the characters who have lived/worked there and also national/international events going on in 1821.
The importance of a safe and loving home is more important than ever at the moment and the council is looking for more caring adults to become foster carers and join the hundreds of others who are caring for our children across the East Riding.
Foster Care Fortnight runs from 10-23 May and would normally be a time for East Riding of Yorkshire Council to organise drop-in sessions and information events for anybody interested in fostering.
The Liberal Democrats succeeded in fending off a Conservative challenge in the Beverley St Mary’s East town council by-election.
Their candidate, Alison Healy, was elected with 45%of the vote, ahead of Conservative David Elvidge.