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Jul 2022
Last Updated: 27/07/2022
Business Breakfast: Newtons solicitors to move to new premises in Ripon
This morning there's news that Newtons Solicitors is moving offices in Ripon and a Harrogate based charity is opening a new store in the town.
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
Newtons Solicitors is to move to larger premises in Ripon.
The Harrogate-based firm has nine offices across Yorkshire and the North East; it employs 90 staff and has an annual fee income of £6m. It's current Ripon office is based on Kirkgate.
Managing director Chris Newton told the Stray Ferret:
"An opportunity arose to purchase our own premises in Ripon. The Ripon office is very good for business.
"We saw a good new location in Market Square and seized the opportunity. It's the old Yorkshire Bank office and needs a lot of refurbishment work. That work is underway and we hope to be in by November in time for Christmas. "
Six staff work at the current Kirkgate Ripon office. Mr Newton said he hoped that number would expand with the new premises.
The interior of the building on Market Square
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New charity store in Harrogate
The charity has secured the site of the former Porters store on Oxford Street as part of its plans to open shops on every high street in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Cancer Research has been based in the spa town of Harrogate since 1978.
Funds raised at the shop will help fund research to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer in Yorkshire.
Juliet Glendinning, director of Yorkshire Cancer Research said:
“Harrogate has been home to Yorkshire Cancer Research for over four decades, and we have always felt very lucky to be an integral part of this beautiful town...
“With the opening of a new shop in the heart of the town, we look forward to becoming an even bigger part of the fabric of Harrogate.
"Our charity shops play a vital role in raising funds to support pioneering research, and the new store means we can offer volunteering and employment opportunities while contributing to the local high street.”
The new shop will be run by manager Kate Morris, who said:
“I am so excited about the opening of a Yorkshire Cancer Research shop in Harrogate. It is so great working for Yorkshire Cancer Research, knowing that we are playing a part in raising money to fund vital research and really having an impact on the lives of people with cancer, right here in Yorkshire.”
While the shop is being prepared for opening, good quality clothes, homewares, toys, books, small electrical and furniture can be dropped off at the charity’s donation centre at i2D Hornbeam Park Oval, Harrogate, HG2 8RB. The donation centre is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
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