Category: Local News

Visitors can expect 10 days of funfair, food and entertainment across the Jubilee weekend at York Knavesmire. Live music will get everyone in the spirit with popular local bands Huge, Y Street Band, as well as DJ sets and more. ‘Just Josh’ a popular family-friendly York entertainer will take place on the stage combining magic, […]

Stuck on ideas for things to do over February half term? We’ve gathered up some of York’s best events for the week, and prepared some ideas for both indoor and outdoor fun (you might want to pack the wellies, just incase!) 19 – 25 Feb Wizard Walk of YorkYork City CentreJoin The Wizard of York […]

After a two-year long hiatus due to COVID, the York Design Awards have finally returned, and there’s just a month to enter. The York Design Awards showcase York’s finest quality building design and architecture. Typically featuring designs from over the last three years, it’s been extended to projects from up to five years ago in […]

The race is now on to find the new home for Great British Railways, with towns and cities across England, Wales and Scotland invited to apply before 16 March.  Cities across the country with strong historical links to the railway are encouraged to explain why they should be the new home of GBR. And York […]

Blueberry Pop Up Shop has a new home on Rougier Street.  Previously Society Bar, the shop sells upcycled furniture, gifts, jewellery, artwork and more.  Blueberry Pop Up Shop is part of the Blueberry Academy, an organisation that supports people with learning disabilities and differences with employment and independent skills. The shop provides retail training for […]

By Alexander Dawson York Art Gallery has announced that it has formed a partnership with the LGTB Forum in order to diversify the Burton Gallery by incorporating various stories and pieces from the LGBTQIA+ community. Visitors will be able to wander through the renovated art gallery with a fresh perspective on the original pieces from […]

By Alexander Dawson With Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee just around the corner, City of York Council is looking to celebrate this momentous occasion by partnering with The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) to encourage residents in York to ‘plant a tree for the jubilee’ by providing free trees that any York resident can apply for. 500 […]

By Alexander Dawson Everyone! Everyone! Chill out! We have some important news: The bright lights and fuzzy feeling of Christmas and New Year may be long gone, but that winter feeling isn’t leaving anytime soon…  To round off York’s winter celebrations, Make It York returns with the York Ice Trail 2022. From the 5th to […]

By Alexander Dawson York is famous for its history and medieval culture, with King George VI saying that: ‘The History of York is the history of England.’ In short, York has a lot of history and therefore has a lot of historical locations for tourists and locals alike to visit, observe and learn. If you […]

The Vikings are taking over the internet this year in the return of York’s ‘That JORVIK Viking Thing’ – the world’s largest online Viking festival – from 19 to 27 February 2022. This online event features talks, live streams, concerts and a huge collection of videos to get your Viking fix when you fancy it.  […]

Wigginton Squash ClubSaturday 5th and Sunday 6th February, 10am-4pm Looking to take up a new sport? Wigginton Squash Club is holding an open weekend so that people can get a feel for the club and find out what the sport is all about.  There will be coaches on hand all day for a chat, plus […]

City of York Council is set to commit £7.7 million to libraries across York as part of an improvement programme with Explore York Libraries and Archives.  The investment includes a £5m Library Learning Centre for Clifton, a new permanent library for Haxby and Wigginton, and a significant capital investment for Acomb Library Learning Centre. Clifton’s […]

Celebrate the end of winter with a trip out to see these white-flowering hardy perennials in all their glory. Beningbrough Hall  There are three types of snowdrops to see at Beningbrough – Tete a Tete, Toto and Pheasant’s Eye – you’ll spot them just beyond the walled garden.  The half and galleries are currently closed, […]

National Apprenticeship Week returns across the UK from 7-13 February. The week-long celebration lets employers and apprentices tell their stories to attract the next generation of apprentices. At the time of writing, there’s currently 126 apprenticeship vacancies within 10 miles of York, 321 within 20 miles of York and 10,000 across England!For more information, visit www.york.gov.uk/ApprenticeshipEvents.

A York woman has raised over £4000 by playing the bagpipes during the pandemic.Rachael Blueman, who lives in Rawcliffe, started learning to play when she was 38 with the City of York Pipe Band after seeing them outside Marks and Spencers on Parliament Street.Today, she’s raised thousands of pounds for the RSPCA and York Animal […]