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Mar 27, 2025Fashion and Lifestyle

Pudsey’s plant-powered celebration happening this May

Pudsey Vegan Festival from Vegan Events UK is coming to Pudsey Civic Hall on Saturday 3rd May. There will be over 50 fantastic stalls, exciting and inspirational talks and demos running throughout the day from 10.30am to 4.30pm. So if you are looking for inspiration or information on plant-based or vegan living, Pudsey Vegan Festival is the perfect venue. And as entry is free for under-16s, it is ideal for families. Festival organiser and founder of Vegan Events UK, Victoria Bryceson says, “Pu

Mar 20, 2025Health & Wellbeing

New Boots Opticians with innovative eye scan technology opens in Trinity Leeds

A new stand-alone Boots Opticians store has opened in Trinity Leeds offering optomap® as part of its Ultimate Eye Test, which could help to detect signs of serious health conditions including diabetes and hypertension. The store, which is located on the ground floor of Trinity Leeds, provides an inspiring and inviting shopping experience for customers who are looking for help with their eyecare needs or are in search of a new pair of frames. Previously located inside Boots in Trinity Leeds,

Mar 3, 2025Health & Wellbeing

The hidden threat to your bones (and brain)

The healthiest people tend to be the ones who adopt simple positive lifestyle habits throughout their day - not the ones who do the gruelling workouts and punish their bodies. So with that in mind I want to share with you something that you might like to take on board. I read a pretty alarming report today and I feel this is something we can get on board with. Plastics are everywhere - in the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe. But these microscopic particles aren’t just an

Feb 24, 2025Health & 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

Feb 13, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Through My Eyes’ maternity photo exhibition opens in Leeds

A new photography exhibition celebrating diversity and individuality in maternity has opened at Thackray Museum of Medicine, in collaboration with the maternity service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTHT) and Lens Lab Project, a non-profit arts organisation who are based locally in Burmantofts. The photos were taken at Maternal Journal art classes last summer, which enabled pregnant women to come together, share their experiences, and express themselves through creative activities including bum

Jan 30, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Scholarship for mental health nurse to address suicide in farming

A mental health nurse hopes to offer helpful insights into what more can be done to prevent suicides in British agriculture by embarking on an international study tour, sponsored by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Lucia Slack has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Farming Scholarship to study ‘Addressing Suicide in Agriculture: Supporting and Preventing the Biggest Hidden Danger Today’. Since 1980, farming charity the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has sponsored Nuffield Farming Scholars

Jan 24, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Change the way you clean your home in 2025

People are now more conscious of the products that make it into their home – in terms of what they put into their body, on their skin AND what they clean their home with. The approach to cleaning our homes and businesses has changed hugely over the past couple of years. The focus now is on what is best for our body, our wellbeing, and the environment. Less in now certainly more……. less additives, less chemicals, less packaging. Yorkshire Businesswoman member, Mo, founder of Yorkshire bas

Jan 21, 2025Health & Wellbeing

MP Katie White opens the £12m elective care Hub at Wharfedale Hospital

The new £12million Elective Care Unit at Wharfedale Hospital – which reduces the time patients wait for surgery and provides protected space for planned operations to take place – has been officially opened by Katie White, MP for North West Leeds. Katie joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Chair Dame Linda Pollard, director of estates and facilities Craige Richardson and a range of other colleagues to officially open the facility. She also spoke with staff, toured the new facility and l

Jan 20, 2025Health & Wellbeing

HelloHope partners with Miss Yorkshire to run Mindful Malta retreat

Harrogate’s Chloe McEwen, the reigning ‘Miss Yorkshire’ has partnered with HelloHope, a mental health organisation to host a mindful retreat. The 7-day ‘Hello Mindful Malta’ retreat will take place from the 2nd-9th May in a luxury 5-star villa in Malta run by Chloe McEwen and HelloHope’s founder and CEO Ellie MacDonald. Participants will enjoy a week of rejuvenation of mind, body and soul and enjoy self-care sessions, beach days and fitness plans to take home. A gentle hike, yoga and use o

Jan 16, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Newborn babies tested for over 200 genetic conditions

Hundreds of babies have begun to be tested for over 200 rare genetic conditions as part of a world-leading study that has now launched at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). The pioneering study aims to identify conditions such as Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) in babies sooner, and could enable hundreds to benefit from earlier diagnosis and treatment that could help slow the progression of disease and improve or even extend their lives. The Generation Study, led by Genomics Englan

Jan 15, 2025Health & Wellbeing

Local Opticians and Audiologists earns sustainability certification

Bayfields Opticians and Audiologists has achieved a prestigious sustainability certification after successfully offsetting its carbon emissions across its audiology services at seven of its practices throughout Yorkshire. Earlier this year, Bayfields was awarded the certification for its optical offering, and now it has extended its sustainability efforts to include its audiology products and services. Practices in locations including York, Harrogate and Headingly have earned the Carbon Neut

Dec 18, 2024Health & Wellbeing

Can you help the Outward Bound Trust with team Blossom?

Team Blossom is walking 22 miles raising funds for The Outward Bound Trust to empower young women from West Yorkshire.

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