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•Textile festival returns to Leeds' Sunny Bank Mills•Countdown is on to the 167th Great Yorkshire Show•First look at newly renovated hospitality suites at York Racecourse•Yorkshire HR business grows team with two key appointments•Leeds Tattoo Expo: “we’re all about tattoos, but there’s much more to see!”•Bradford BID celebrates £250,000 Gift Card milestone•Stockeld Park expands Stockeld Stays with brand-new magical glamping pods•Long-serving employees enjoy career progression in their two decades with Jones Homes•Textile festival returns to Leeds' Sunny Bank Mills•Countdown is on to the 167th Great Yorkshire Show•First look at newly renovated hospitality suites at York Racecourse•Yorkshire HR business grows team with two key appointments•Leeds Tattoo Expo: “we’re all about tattoos, but there’s much more to see!”•Bradford BID celebrates £250,000 Gift Card milestone•Stockeld Park expands Stockeld Stays with brand-new magical glamping pods•Long-serving employees enjoy career progression in their two decades with Jones Homes

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Garden Centre smashes its Charity of the Year fundraising target two months early
Business

Garden Centre smashes its Charity of the Year fundraising target two months early

The teams at Yorkshire Garden Centres (YGC) group are celebrating after their six sites have reached their Charity of the Year fundraising target ahead of schedule. In April 2024, the teams at Yorkshire Garden Centres' sites at Tong, Tingley, Otley, Bingley, York and Scarborough pledged to raise £20,000 for Yorkshire Children's Charity, an independent charity that aims to transform childhoods and improve the lives of thousands of disadvantaged children in Yorkshire. By the end of January 2025,

Sunny Bank Mills’ print festival returns
Fashion and Lifestyle

Sunny Bank Mills’ print festival returns

Sunny Bank Mills’ annual Print Festival is back over the weekend of 1st – 2nd March in the iconic 1912 Mill in Farsley, Leeds. The Print Festival comprises Leeds’ biggest Print Fair; free drop-in zine, bookbinding and printmaking workshops for all ages; a pop-up exhibition and workshop from the People Powered Press; Artists’ Open Studios in the Twisting, Spinning Mill and Red Lane Studios; the launch of its annual emerging artist exhibition, Ones to Watch 2025; and a drop-in to its textile Mus

Trials for contactless ticketing in the North a step closer
Business

Trials for contactless ticketing in the North a step closer

Plans to trial simpler and more flexible ticketing across the North have taken one step closer this week with trials on track for later this year. The Government is kick starting the procurement process to find the suppliers who will run the technology for the trials across the East Midlands and Yorkshire. The successful bidders will work alongside Northern and East Midlands Railways to deliver the trials. Unlike the previous rollout of pay as you go, these trials will use GPS based technolo

Empowering women entrepreneurs: elevating safety standards in electrical testing
Business

Empowering women entrepreneurs: elevating safety standards in electrical testing

Women entrepreneurs are making a lasting impact in traditionally male-dominated industries, including electrical engineering and testing. As more women establish and lead businesses in this field, safety becomes a crucial focus. Ensuring high safety standards not only protects employees and clients but also strengthens business credibility and sustainability. Investing in reliable testing equipment, fostering a safety-conscious culture, and supporting professional development means that female

Beverley Building Society selects Hull and East Yorkshire Mind as its Charity of the Year
Health & Wellbeing

Beverley Building Society selects Hull and East Yorkshire Mind as its Charity of the Year

Beverley Building Society, based in Beverley’s Saturday Market, has been part of the fabric of Beverley since it was established in 1866. Since that time, it has continued to maintain its founding values of providing straightforward savings and mortgage products, underpinned by outstanding customer service, whilst giving back to its East Riding heartland. At the start of 2025, and for the fourth consecutive year, the Society was faced with a difficult task: to choose its Charity of the Year fr

Cause UK marks 15 years’ delivering positive PR
Entrepreneurs

Cause UK marks 15 years’ delivering positive PR

Based in Harrogate, Cause UK is run by two sisters, Clair and Ann Chadwick, and is unique thanks to its creative approach. Since its inception in 2010, the agency has been dedicated to using journalism, storytelling and leveraging their media know-how to amplify the voices of organisations working to make a positive impact. Its clients operate across the arts, public, social enterprise, tourism, health, education, and conservation sectors, as well as ethical businesses. Cause UK has won mu

Key National Insurance changes for Employers
Business

Key National Insurance changes for Employers

Author: IAN PARSONS, MANAGING PARTNER at Parsons, Chartered Accountants The Autumn Budget 2024 introduced significant changes to the National Insurance system which will impact employers from 6 April 2025. These changes could lead to higher costs for businesses. Here is a breakdown of the key updates and potential implications. Lower Threshold for Employer NICs One of the major changes is the reduction in the secondary threshold for National Insurance contributions. Employers will be requi

York garden centre donates plants to new Montessori nursery
Business

York garden centre donates plants to new Montessori nursery

A York garden centre has donated plants to a nursery in York to help children learn about living things. Neil Collins, manager of Osbaldwick Montessori, contacted Dean's Garden Centre in Stockton on the Forest when the nursery opened recently. He said: "One of the core principles of a Montessori nursery is to build better communities through having strong links with surrounding businesses and people. The nursery itself received a lot of generous support, resources and time from many local trad

Record year for Wakefield shopping centre
Fashion and Lifestyle

Record year for Wakefield shopping centre

A Wakefield shopping centre is celebrating its best ever year after welcoming around 11.35 million visits in 2024. A resurgent Trinity Walk built on a good 2023 with record numbers of visitors last year thanks to a raft of new openings and successful events like Star Walk, Princesses of Trinity and Dino Walk. The centre, which first opened in May 2011, has welcomed more than a dozen new openings in the last two years from Sports Direct and Pavers to Søstrene Grene and Bob & Berts. The cent

Therapy sheep inspires local mum to create children's book
Entrepreneurs

Therapy sheep inspires local mum to create children's book

A mum, author and therapist from Leeds is celebrating launching her third children’s book, and she hopes it will go best seller, and end up on the book shelves of children across the region, because her greatest wish is to use the income from her book sales to fund her therapy work - so that she can treat terminally ill people for free. Grace Olson, 51, from Moortown, is launching ‘Berel finds his wings’, the third children’s story inspired by her therapy sheep, at The Little Bookshop in Chape

Countdown is on to Springtime Live 2025
Fashion and Lifestyle

Countdown is on to Springtime Live 2025

Tickets are now on sale for the hugely popular Springtime Live on Saturday April 5th, which invites families with young children to celebrate the best of farming and the countryside. Springtime Live is hosted by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, organisers of the Great Yorkshire Show and held on the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate. Star attractions are farm animals such as sheep and pigs, heavy horses and tractor trailer rides, as well as pedal tractors, Diggerland and interactive se

Sisters go into partnership to acquire fine-dining restaurant
Entrepreneurs

Sisters go into partnership to acquire fine-dining restaurant

Sisters Alice Smith and Lily Brooke Day have fulfilled their lifelong dream of owning a restaurant business, after acquiring the popular Brook’s fine-dining eatery in Brighouse. Brook’s on Bradford Road in the town was opened in 1989 and has built up a strong reputation amongst food lovers as one of the best independent restaurants in West Yorkshire. Having previously worked for Ultimate Finance and Aldermore Bank, Alice is swapping her 16-year career in business finance to co-own the restau

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