• East Riding poetry festival returns to the High Wolds and is calling for submissions on the theme of ‘connections’
  • East Riding Libraries to celebrate PRIDE this June
  • Compost giveaways prove as popular as ever with East Riding residents
  • Run With It Charity sees massive increase in work with special education schools
  • East Riding Schools: Breaking barriers to boost attendance
Calling All Cocktail Connoisseurs! Create Your Own Hull-Inspired Cocktail

Calling All Cocktail Connoisseurs! Create Your Own Hull-Inspired Cocktail

Lost City Adventure Golf is asking the people of Hull to create their very own Hull-inspired cocktail, with the winning entry set to land a spot on the new adventure golf course’s bespoke cocktail menu.

The lucky winner of the competition, which can be entered via the Lost City Adventure Golf Facebook page, will also receive four free tickets to the golf course and complimentary pizza and cocktails to try out their winning concoction.

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Litter Pickers Donated To Swanland Village Association

Litter Pickers Donated To Swanland Village Association

Christine Walker, Litter Picking Coordinator for the Swanland Village Association organises a team of over 40 volunteers, young and young at heart, who participate in weekly litter pickings in the centre of Swanland village.

Last month, as part of the Keep Britain Tidy September Clean, a team of around 20 carried out a village-wide litter pick, which they do twice per year, collecting 14 bags of litter in total from the hedges and verges around the village. One volunteer has also collected, over time, a disappointing 145 cigarette butts. 

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Live Music Returns To The East Riding: Oktoberfest At St Mary's Church

Live Music Returns To The East Riding: Oktoberfest At St Mary’s Church

New Paths Music has announced that it is bucking the trend and putting on a festival of live concerts to a real audience later this month.

2020 has seen live music crumbling across the nation, but Oktoberfest will see four concerts take place in the stunning setting of St Mary’s Church in Beverley, to a socially distanced audience.

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World Mental Health Day Means A Unique Approach To Mindfulness At Beverley Art Gallery

World Mental Health Day Means A Unique Approach To Mindfulness At Beverley Art Gallery

World Mental Health Day is this coming Saturday (10 October) and Beverley Art Gallery will be helping to mark the occasion.

The Gallery is delighted to celebrate the Day with the first in a series of mindful art recordings, which are part of the gallery’s Mindful Engagement with Art Project.

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Beverley Film Society Set To Welcome Members Back

Beverley Film Society Set To Welcome Members Back

Members of Beverley Film Society are getting ready to return to Parkway Cinema on 8 October following the abrupt pause to its last season due to the Covid-19 restrictions.

The next film to be shown is the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RBG, making this a poignant reunion in light of her recent passing.

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MP Offers Support To New Bridal Business In Beverley

MP Offers Support To New Bridal Business In Beverley

Graham Stuart, the local MP for Beverley and Holderness, visited a bridal shop that recently opened in his constituency.

He visited to congratulate the owners, Andy and Laura Hall, on their new venture after falling on bad times and being made redundant due to coronavirus.

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East Yorkshire Coaches Is Back And With A Fresh New Look

East Yorkshire Coaches Is Back And With A Fresh New Look

Coach operator East Yorkshire Coaches is restarting its day trip programme and has launched a dramatic new livery for its fleet of coaches as it heralds the dawn of a new era for coach trips and hires across the region.

The Go-Ahead owned company, which runs UK coach holidays and day trips as well as providing coaches for private hire, unveiled the new coach design during a trip by Buses Minister Baroness Vere to York last week.

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Active Together Uses Technology To Help Residential Homes

Active Together Uses Technology To Help Residential Homes

A digital project to encourage and maintain good social, physical and mental wellbeing in residential homes across the East Riding is being rolled out to a wider audience.

A pilot of the Active Together project was held at a small number of care homes over the summer, and following feedback from staff and residents, there are plans to make the videos available to more homes.

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Thomas The Baker Officially Lays Claim To The Country’s Best Ever Mince Pies

Thomas The Baker Officially Lays Claim To The Country’s Best Ever Mince Pies

A well-known Yorkshire bakery is celebrating receiving the first-ever 3-star Great Taste award given to a sweet mince pie in the awards’ 25-year history.

Thomas the Baker was awarded the 3-star Great Taste award for its Heavenly Sweet Mince Pie. Only 205 of the 12,777 products entered into the awards, which came from 106 different countries, received the coveted 3-star award.

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WISHH To Deliver Health And Wellbeing Facility For Hospital Staff

WISHH To Deliver Health And Wellbeing Facility For Hospital Staff

Hospital staff in Hull are to benefit from a £130,000 health and wellbeing facility thanks to the support of local people and NHS Charities Together.

Earlier this year, individuals and community groups pulled out all the stops to thank staff for working through the Covid-19 pandemic at both Castle Hill Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary.

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