A look back at 2018 shows it was a good year for the small Market Town of Beverley.
2018 saw Beverley as a town achieve a number of things, while there were also some great stories in the community. Of course, there was other not so good news too.
The annual Christmas Tree Festival at Beverley Minster is underway. It features 86 trees that have been decorated by the community.
Over the coming days, Beverley Minster expects around 8,000 people will attend the event. While there those visitors will be asked to vote for their favourite entry.
If Beverley is the fast becoming a food capital why is food poverty on the increase in the Town as people struggle to feed their families?
In the season of goodwill, local schools and residents are stepping up to the mark collecting food donations. But is that really enough and can more be done.
East Yorkshire Foodbank has expressed their gratitude after following a successful food collection held at Tesco in Beverley.
During a three day long national event hosted by the supermarket giant, East Yorkshire Foodbank collected 107 crates of food.
Football players in Beverley have got behind a campaign being run by the charity East Yorkshire Foodbank.
Beverley Town put an appeal out to football players in the club to bring a tin of food to their match on Saturday.
East Yorkshire foodbank has come up with a unique way over the festive period to boost the supplies they need.
In the run-up to Christmas, East Yorkshire foodbank will be running a reverse advent calendar. People are being asked to make donations while following a specific list of items to help boost stock levels.
Tesco Beverley say they are pleased to be working with the East Yorkshire Foodbank, Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre and Leven Charity Pre-school in their Community Food Connection Programme.
The supermarket giants are now using technology to link local groups with in store systems say they can be alerted to and food waste.
Tesco’s 10th Food Collection took place in all stores across the UK last weekend, with Tesco topping up customer donations by 20% to help charity partners FareShare and The Trussell Trust feed even more people in need.
The collection at Tesco’s Beverley store proved to be a fantastic success with customers donating 83 crates of food and £680 in cash donations, all of which will help provide food for people in need over the next few weeks. Our charity partner is East Yorkshire Foodbank, which is part of the Trussell Trust.
Tesco’s 8th Neighbourhood Food Collection took place in stores across the UK last week and proved to be a tremendous success.
East Yorkshire Foodbank is urging members of the community to help stop local people from going hungry by volunteering at the UK’s biggest food collection