A free park and ride service from Beverley Racecourse will be in operation for both the Festival of Christmas and the Made in East Yorkshire Christmas markets from Sunday, 12 December until Friday, 17 December 2021 so visitors won’t have to worry about finding parking in the town or how long they spend browsing the centre of Beverley.
Over 45 years, Yorkshire children’s cancer charity Candlelighters has continually evolved to provide superb support for children and their families, spanning emotional, practical and financial support, and investment in vital childhood cancer research.
Candlelighters strives to embed the needs and wants of the children at a strategic level, ensuring its support is the best it possibly can be and that donations generously received from the public are always well spent.
Humberside Police are supporting the national campaign to tackle knife crime – Operation Sceptre.
During this week, from 15 November and 21 November, there will be a surrender for bladed weapons and offensive weapons to be handed into police stations force-wide.
An East Yorkshire chef who was inspired to create frozen restaurant-quality meals during lockdown has set up a professional kitchen in Pocklington.
Ali Bilton, who grew up in East Yorkshire, but travelled the world cooking for private clients in a career spanning over 30 years, launched a range of chef-prepared dishes for people to enjoy at home during the first lockdown in May 2020.
East Riding Libraries are delighted to announce a varied and exciting programme for their literature festival, The East Riding Festival of Words, which will be back with live events this autumn.
Puppets Plays and Storydays are back again with another entertaining puppet storytelling, this time of ‘Three little fish and the big bad shark’ by Ken Geist.
Rollits LLP has announced the appointment of graduates Joshua Hobson, Olivia Keith and Emma Richards, who are all local to the firm’s offices in Hull and York and have now started their Period of Recognised Training.
East Riding Youth Dance is happy to announce its return for an autumn term, running from October 2021 to February 2022.
This exciting and inspiring community dance programme takes place in the East Riding for young people aged 9 – 18, in Bridlington, Beverley, Pocklington, Leven and Withernsea.
The free compost giveaways run by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council are returning this month.
Eight giveaway events will be held across the area between Saturday 18 September and Friday 1 October, where around 5,000 bags of compost will be handed out for free to local residents.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Active Towns project is aimed at encouraging and supporting communities and residents to be more physically, mentally, and socially active in Pocklington, Market Weighton, Goole and Howden.
A Market Weighton grief charity is to host a Family Wellbeing Day next month.
Talking about Loss has secured funding from ERYC and local businesses to host the event at Rossmoor Park, home to Mindful Memorials, on 25th September.
Registration for the latest YORSwitch round is now open, and residents across the East Riding are being encouraged to switch and fix their energy tariffs.
Since YORSwitch began in 2013, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council scheme has helped more than 36,000 households switch their energy tariffs, with savings of over £7.6 million for East Riding residents.
An international opera singer is heading home to East Yorkshire to perform for a life-saving charity in an exclusive, hidden gem of a venue.
Mezzo soprano Katy Marriott, who has returned to Beverley following a career singing across Europe, will be joined by the Wedding Belles choir presenting songs from The Sound of Music at The Chapel of Saint Mary and Everilda at Everingham Park.
Drivers from bus company East Yorkshire star in a new recruitment video, aimed at encouraging people to consider a career in bus driving.
The video shows bus drivers talking about their backgrounds, what they love about the job, and who they think would make a good bus driver – as well as addressing the issue of why bus drivers always wave at each other.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, as part of the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund (ROHSS), has commissioned specialist consultants The Retail Group to write COVID Recovery Action Plans for town centres across the region.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, is to meet with East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) officials to lobby for their support as part of a fresh bid for Government funding to reinstate the Beverley-York rail line.