East Yorkshire Buses is excited to announce a series of significant updates to its bus services, set to take effect from 10th November 2024.
In response to customer feedback, these changes are designed to simplify routes, improve reliability and provide more frequent services to passengers across Hull and surrounding areas.
It’s the 14th annual Walking East Yorkshire Festival, featuring an array of activities from Spurn Point to Stamford Bridge. There will be guided walks and experiences across the county from 14-22nd September.
The festival’s organizers include tourism officials, partners, and volunteers from across East Yorkshire. As a partnership between East Riding Council and Visit East Yorkshire, it is administered by Visit East Yorkshire. Family-friendly activities include walks, cycling trails, and cultural tours.
Tesco’s Beverley store has been working with the Trussell Trust’s East Yorkshire Foodbank for over eight years to help fight hunger in our local area.
The store has a permanent collection point for customer donations which in the last three months alone has resulted in almost three thousand meals going to local people in need. Tesco also helps by making an annual contribution to Trussell Trust.
Dogger Bank Wind Farm has announced a £25million commitment to coastal communities in the North and North-East of England, developing a long-term legacy for the world-leading renewable energy project.
The commitment includes funding projects in East Riding of Yorkshire, Redcar and Cleveland and South Tyneside, to enhance STEM education, and help young people gain the skills and knowledge required to fulfil their potential in a net zero world.
It’s Christmas time, and Libraries in East Yorkshire, including Beverley, have just the thing to get young residents in the festive spirit.
Storytimes and Bounce & Rhymes are coming up at East Riding Libraries with the wonderful ‘What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas’ and ‘Peppa and the Christmas Elf’.
The team at Puffins Galore! is seeking Puffin Pals – volunteers to befriend each of the puffin sculptures which will be landing in East Yorkshire in early July.
Appearing along the coast, with a cheeky twist inland, the forty-two giant, artist decorated puffins will settle at locations along a trail from Bempton to Kilnsea, with clusters in Bridlington, Hornsea, Withernsea and Hull.
There will be annual restrictions excluding dogs from certain parts of beaches along the East Coast from Sunday, 1 May.
In an effort to help families and visitors enjoy the seaside without being bothered by nuisance dogs or fouling, the exclusion will be in effect until 30 September.
Active Coast, the council’s popular programme for residents and visitors to explore and enjoy life in the East Riding, has organised free beach art sessions along the coast this April to help people try something new.
Beach Art with James Brunt will take place in Hornsea this month, where visitors can join James in a beach art project and try their hand at stone stacking and/or sand drawing.
Following the success of The Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market in Beverley a series of newly formed ‘East Riding FEASTivals’ will be coming to towns from January 2022.
The East Riding FEASTival will be a celebration of our high streets, through an event that will feature street foods, bars of distinction, alfresco dining, live music, and children’s entertainment served up with fun, colour and character.
Arco, the UK’s leading safety company, has donated over £50,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to the HEY Smile Foundation, a leading local charity working with organisations in the health and community support sectors.
This PPE will be distributed to local groups and charitable organisations across Hull and East Yorkshire and will help support some of the most vulnerable people in society ahead of the challenging winter period.
Opera North’s Whistle Stop Opera, The Magic Flute, will be popping up across the East Riding this October Half Term. It will be a chance to try something new with this family-friendly show in Hornsea, Bridlington, Goole and Beverley.
Staff were kept constantly busy at this year’s free compost giveaways held by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Returning after a two-year break, the giveaways held in September were as popular as ever with East Riding residents.
MP Graham Stuart has nominated Jay Norris, a Hornsea boy, for the Kids Count Inspiration Awards for his outstanding dedication and commitment to keeping his local beach clean.
The aim of the Kids Count Inspiration Awards is to recognise those individuals and organisations that have inspired young people in their communities. These are special awards that give MPs the opportunity to highlight outstanding work in their constituency and to demonstrate their commitment and support.
Following the government’s announcement regarding the removal of current COVID-19 restrictions from 19 July, East Riding Leisure has announced changes to the way customers will access their services.
A radical new reworking of Herman Melville’s epic, classic novel, Moby Dick, will be put on at Hull’s Stage @TheDock by The John Godber Company this June.
The production is supported by Wykeland Group, a leading supporter of the arts and culture in the city, and Arts Council England, and sees the return of live performances to the stunning waterside amphitheatre.
Over the past few years, East Riding Archives have been increasing their digital capacity to make their documentary heritage of East Yorkshire more accessible.
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.
Free online business workshops offered by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and delivered by a retail specialist The Retail Group, are continuing to support and guide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in East Riding town centres.