More groups in East Yorkshire have benefited as a result of grants issued by Tesco in Beverley.
Community projects in the town have received cash from the supermarket giant which will be used to fund a range of projects.
As an East Yorkshire home builder committed to creating communities where families thrive, play and grow, Risby Homes is pleased to support Beverley’s newest football team, Westwood FC.
Westwood FC is the market town’s new under 10s team for the 2022 season. Many of the players live in Risby’s Shepherd’s Rest development and attend local schools.
At Beverley Building Society’s first Charity Golf Day, held to raise funds for the Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre, former West End and Old Shakespeare Company actor Richard Avery generously gave his time as Master of Ceremonies.
East Riding Theatre, a long-standing community partner of the Society, is co-founded by Richard, who has appeared in many TV shows.
The Beverley Building Society team have been a little busier than usual during the last two weeks of May, raising much-needed funds for its Charity of the Year for 2022, the Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre.
From Monday 16 May to Friday 20 May, the Society’s team bravely took on a 211-mile ‘Beverley to Buckingham Palace’ Exercise Bike Challenge (the equivalent distance of the actual route), in advance of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Tesco Beverley’s Community Food Connection scheme has received praise from The Cherry Tree Centre manager Jo Ramsay.
Currently, The Cherry Tree Centre helps feed over 180 people in the town each week. This is partly made possible as a result of the support offered by the local Tesco store in Beverley.
MP, Graham Stuart, nominated the Beverley Cherry Tree Youth Club for the Kids Count Inspiration Awards in October and the judging panel has awarded them Highly Commended for the Community Group Award category.
The Cherry Tree Youth Club have been invited to attend the Award Ceremony later this month.
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.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s public health team first launched the Inclusion Health vehicle back in November 2021, as part of the wider East Riding Inclusion Health service.
This project brings together council services including public health, leisure and libraries, as well as external partners such as the Humber NHS Foundation Trust, the Food Poverty Alliance and the foodbank network, working with community groups and organisations, all with the aim to become a trusted and supportive presence within the local authority.
MP Graham Stuart has nominated the Beverley Cherry Tree Community Association for the Kids Count Inspiration Awards.
The aim of the Kids Count Inspiration Awards is to recognise those individuals and organisations that have inspired young people in their communities.
Business leaders and regional investors alongside an excited audience of friends and supporters of regional grant-maker Two Ridings Community Foundation, came together at Birdsall House, Malton to hear six small grassroots charities pitch at a Yorkshire version of Dragons’ Den.
Beverley’s Cherry Tree Community Centre is one of the lucky charities that will get to pitch at Two Ridings Community Foundation’s Dragons’ Den event, the six have been chosen and they are busy preparing their pitches to secure thousands in funding for their community projects.
Tesco Community Champion David Ryley says that the store in Beverley is pleased to be working with groups in the area.
Through the supermarket giants pledge to reduce the amount of food waste, they are donating goods to groups. These groups include ones based in Beverley, Leven and also Hull.
As anxiety grows around the current spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, many communities are looking to local, grassroots activism to create support networks in the face of what can often seem confusing, not to say conflicting advice.
The latest in the East Riding area is the new Beverley Community COVID-19 Support Group. It has been launched by community leader and volunteer, Jackie Heffer, following similar initiatives that are springing up nationwide.
An incentive run by Tesco, Community Food Connection is appealing for more groups to come forward.
The scheme sees waste food which would otherwise be destroyed redistributed to local charities to help feed those in need.
A school and local charity are who were winners of the Tesco Bags of Help incentive have revealed what they have done the cash.
Beverley’s Cherry Tree Centre and Woodmansey Primary School both welcomed representatives from Tesco to view their projects.
Tesco’s Beverley store has joined hundreds of others across the UK to celebrate four years of the supermarket’s surplus food donation scheme.
The store showcased the Community Food Connection scheme, which is run in conjunction with food charity FareShare.
Aldi’s store in Beverley is now donating surplus food directly to two local charities that redistribute supplies to vulnerable people in the area, food bank Food 4 Life and the Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre, which provides a range of support for people living locally.
The new partnerships follow on from a successful trial between the supermarket and community engagement platform, Neighbourly. Aldi has paired up a total of nine stores in Hull and East Riding with local good causes that are now collecting surplus food up to five days a week.
Tesco says they are pleased to be working with local groups as they look to put their food waste to good use.
Their Community Food Connection programme has proved so successful it has served up thousands of meals to local people.