The Art of Yorkshire Garden from Welcome to Yorkshire has won a Silver medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden celebrates Yorkshire’s artists and those that have used Yorkshire as their muse such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, J M W Turner, David Hockney and Andy Goldsworthy. Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome [...]
A celebration of local produce The Dales Festival of Food and Drink has taken place every year over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend since 2002 and was conceived to help the area recover from the impact of foot and mouth disease in 2001. It is now celebrating its 10th year. The event showcases Yorkshire [...]
Listen with Knaresborough Renaissance Knaresborough wanted to illustrate the rich heritage of Knaresborough with an audio tour that could be downloaded from the internet. The project was a great opportunity to involve the local secondary school, King James’s School through its extra-curriculum Enterprise Group. The pupils, aged between 13 and 16, worked on the project [...]
Wednesday 15 June 2011 at Rural Arts, The Courthouse, Thirsk, YO7 1QS PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR IS NOW FULLY BOOKED To add your name to the reserve list email Susannah Maxwell, Action for Market Towns Administrator at susannah.maxwell@towns.org.uk. Do you constantly struggle to find the right funding for your town’s projects? Once you find funding [...]
Organisations from across the country, keen to improve the marketing and promotion of their towns, came together in Thirsk on 15 September 2010 to learn practical and low cost marketing techniques. This event forms part of a 4-year programme of events, joint funded by AMT, the Big Lottery Fund and North Yorkshire County Council. The [...]
Settle hydroelectric scheme wins top market town award in Yorkshire and Humber A social enterprise in Settle, North Yorkshire which generates green electricity with all profits going to the community has won the Yorkshire and Humber regional prize in the prestigious Market Town Awards and will now go head-to-head with projects from seven other regions [...]
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