Champney Treasure House hosts poetry exhibition

Champney Treasure House hosts poetry exhibition
May 13, 2025

Champney Treasure House, in Beverley, is hosting an exhibition to highlight the High Wolds Poetry Festival.

Poetry for All centres around the High Wolds Poetry Festival, a partnership between East Riding museums and local poets. The festival is set to take place at Kilham village hall on Saturday 27 September, after being held in North Dalton for the last six occasions.

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National Hoarding Awareness Week

National Hoarding Awareness Week
May 13, 2025

Now in its 11th year, National Hoarding Awareness Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of hoarding and those with a hoarding disorder.

Hoarding Awareness Week will take place from the 12 to 16 May and will focus on promoting a greater understanding and acceptance of hoarding and how those affected by it can be supported to achieve positive change.

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Foster Care Fortnight celebrates the power of relationships in East Riding

Foster Care Fortnight celebrates the power of relationships in East Riding
May 9, 2025

Foster Care Fortnight, running from 12 to 25 May, celebrates the dedication of East Riding foster carers, and raise awareness of the growing need for more people to consider fostering.

The Fostering Network’s annual campaign this year focuses on ‘the power of relationships’. Throughout the week East Riding Fostering is encouraging foster carers to take an hour to nurture relationships – from taking a walk, sharing a cake to hosting a family fun day!

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£6.5 million to be invested in energy efficient measures for low-income households

£6.5 million to be invested in energy efficient measures for low-income households
May 7, 2025

700 low-income households in the East Riding will be provided with energy efficiency upgrades, due to East Riding of Yorkshire Council and government funding.

£1.6 million has been provided by the Warms Home Local Grant, from the Department for Energy and Net Zero (DESNZ), for free energy works to 103 private sector homes. Eligible properties across the region will receive wall insulation, loft top up, glazing improvements, and heating upgrades.

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Author Debbie Wastling to visit the East Riding

Author Debbie Wastling to visit the East Riding
May 7, 2025

Los Angeles-based author Debbie Wastling will visit the East Riding, as part of East Riding Libraries’ author events, for a series of talks and meet and greets.

Debbie Wastling, born and raised in the East Riding, has written three novels, including her latest, The Sutherland Scandals. She will be presenting historical photos and reading from the novel, at local libraries in the East Riding.

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Leading Retirement Developer Launches Apartments For Rent In Beverley

Leading Retirement Developer Launches Apartments For Rent In Beverley
May 5, 2025

The UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, McCarthy Stone, has launched a new selection of apartments for rent, making the company one of the country’s largest and most experienced retirement rental providers. Brand new apartments are now available to rent at Westwood Manor in Beverley, East Riding. Responding to the growing trend to rent in later life these new apartments, exclusively available for over 70s, are expected to be popular with retirees.

McCarthy Stone is committed to making all the benefits of the retirement living lifestyle more accessible than ever before. The launch of additional rental apartments is in response to demand from older people currently living in homes that are becoming unsuitable for their needs, and wanting to move or downsize to a property that suits later life living.

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Free compost giveaways return in May

Free compost giveaways return in May
April 15, 2025

The ever-popular free compost giveaways for East Riding residents will return in May. 

East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s waste and recycling team will once again be handing out 5,000 bags of compost – 60 tonnes – to local residents over the space of eight events, being held from May 3 to 17. 

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East Yorkshire street lights project aimed at cutting carbon praised by Transport minister

East Yorkshire street lights project aimed at cutting carbon praised by Transport minister
April 14, 2025

An East Riding project aimed at cutting carbon and saving energy in street lights on major roads has been praised in a visit by a transport minister. 

Lillian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Future of Roads at the Department for Transport, visited the village of Hayton, near Pocklington, for a guided tour of one of the sites of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s innovative street lights trial. 

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Rural businesses showcase food and tourism opportunities in East Yorkshire

Rural businesses showcase food and tourism opportunities in East Yorkshire
April 14, 2025

East Yorkshire Local Food & Rural Tourism Network held a launch for the latest edition of the ‘Enjoy Local Food and Drink Guide’, alongside a variety of talks, at their recent Spring Event at The Manor Rooms on The Drewton Estate, South Cave.

The Network includes a variety of businesses across the East Riding, benefits from a business-led steering group and is facilitated by East Riding of Yorkshire council’s rural policy and partnerships team. This year’s event and guide were funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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Hospital porter team goes electric with innovative eCargo Bike

Hospital porter team goes electric with innovative eCargo Bike
April 14, 2025

A new carbon-saving electric bike is being trialled by the porter team at Castle Hill Hospital thanks to a partnership with East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 

The council’s sustainable transport team is continuing its award-winning collaboration with NHS Humber Health Partnership at the Castle Hill site in Cottingham.

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Outstanding Beverley nursery announces 50% increase in places thanks to transformative new building plans

Outstanding Beverley nursery announces 50% increase in places thanks to transformative new building plans
April 11, 2025

Building work will be taking place at Fir Trees Nursery School in Beverley – which recently received an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rating – to increase nursery places and provide an enhanced offering to children aged 0 – 4 years in the East Riding.

Plans include conversion of an outdoor barn – which is currently used for outdoor activities – into a warm and welcoming indoor space. The main nursery building will also be reconfigured to create three, new open plan spaces, with a free flow pathway connecting them all.

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Beverley Buyers Say Town Is The Friendliest Place They’ve Ever Lived

Beverley Buyers Say Town Is The Friendliest Place They’ve Ever Lived
March 27, 2025

National homebuilder, Ashberry Homes has turned forever home dreams into reality for a well-travelled couple after they fell in love with one of their new build homes in Beverley.

Steve Wright and his husband, also named Steve (but known affectionately as ‘t’other Steve’) have been together for 17-years; during which time they’ve moved home several times; calling South London, Bridlington and Beverley home. But their moving days are now done and dusted after they found their forever home in a town they both call the friendliest place they’ve ever lived.

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Hull Says ‘Yes To Quit’ With New Smoking Campaign

Hull Says ‘Yes To Quit’ With New Smoking Campaign
March 25, 2025

Students at Malet Lambert Secondary School in Hull are marking the start of a new region-wide campaign to get more people to quit smoking for good across the city.

The ‘Yes to Quit’ campaign has been launched across TV, radio, transport links and social media throughout Yorkshire and the Humber.

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Lights, Camera… Bellway In Beverley

Lights, Camera… Bellway In Beverley
March 24, 2025

The Yorkshire division of national homebuilder, Bellway Homes has produced a stunning video of its Bishop’s Gate development in Beverley, which not only showcases the homes being built in the town, but also brings to life some of its biggest and best attractions.

The two minute fly-by video takes in the Minster, markets, North Bar, racecourse, Coronation Garden, Beverley Westwood and much more; highlighting why the town really is the perfect place to call home.

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