Harrogate Chocolate Factory will be hosting an informal business networking event on Monday.
Coffee and cake will be included, with a tour of the chocolate factory.
The event will run from 9:30am on Monday 25 April and will all be completely free of charge for anyone wanting to attend.
Attendees are free to bring a guest, and are asked to reserve a place by emailing Angela at the factory at angela@hs4lc.org.uk.
Harrogate Chocolate Factory is a social enterprise café launched in 2019. The company sells dark chocolate made from Peruvian cacao beans, and aims to support young adults with learning disabilities and autism to gain vital skills to enter employment.
Elexshow comes to Harrogate
The UK’s largest trade event for electricians, the Elexshow, is coming to Harrogate.
Businesses such as Alltrade, Aico, CK Tools, and Metrel will be at the show, which will be hosted in Great Yorkshire Showground this year.
Exhibitions of equipment, tools, new apps and systems will be available to view for tradespeople in and around the region.
The event spans over the course of two days, from Thursday 28-29 April.
Tickets are available to book online for free, and can be found on the Elexshow website.
Inhealthcare UK raises money for Frank’s Fund
Inhealthcare UK has raised more than £200 to support a local charity.
The raffle gifted the winner a Bettys Yorkshire Delights hamper.
The company, which provides digital health and remote patient monitoring, donated the money to Frank’s Fund.
Frank’s Fund was set up by the family of a young boy who died from a rare form of bone cancer
Frank’s Fund is a local Harrogate based charity. It was set up in memory of Frank Ashton, a Harrogate schoolboy who died from Ewing’s Sarcoma. The charity aims to raise awareness and funds for this rare form of bone cancer. You can read more about it on a Stray Ferret Charity Corner here.
To date, the charity has raised £299,170.77.
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Ripon museums launch summer programme of activities
A summer programme of exhibitions and activities has been launched by Ripon’s museums.
The Workhouse Museum on Allhallowgate is one of three heritage attractions operated by Ripon Museum Trust.
On Saturday August 14, from 11am to 2pm, it will be the venue for Hazel Waite’s counted threads workshop.
Using motifs from features of the workhouse building, participants will be able to create a stitched sample, which could be used as a small picture, bookmark or greetings card.
For more details see the Ripon Museums website.
The Lives Unravelled exhibition is on display at the Workhouse Museum until Sunday 5 September.
Featuring five textile installations, located throughout the museum, the exhibition was inspired by the lives of women who lived and worked in Ripon’s former union workhouse.
Based on their research into the workhouse, textiles group 6-Ply has created crafted and unique textile pieces, which reflect the real experiences and imagined emotions of impoverished women.
Children will be able to explore the newly-created den in the Workhouse Museum garden
Over the school summer holidays, family-focused activities will be staged from Tuesday to Friday each week.
On Friday and from August 10 to 13, the theme is Make Your Mark.
Visitors can join in with the creation of a giant wall hanging depicting feelings and life during lockdown, as well as following a museum trail.
This includes the opportunity to bake in the Workhouse Museum’s Victorian kitchen and have a go at Rag Rugging.
During the second half of the school holidays, the theme for activities will be garden camp.
From August 17 to 20, 24 to 27 & 30 and September 1 to 3 , visitors can explore the Workhouse Museum garden and make and decorate a recycled plant pot holder to take home.
The trust will also be offering a museum trail, plus bird and bird call identification activities and a bird search game.
Children will also be able to play in a new garden den, with family activities included in the cost of museum entry.
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During the summer, the Prison and Police Museum is offering a creative walk through the criminal justice system with the My Path exhibition.
It showcases artworks from across Yorkshire, which were submitted to the 2020 Koestler Awards for arts in the criminal justice system.
Every work shown was made by someone in a prison, secure hospital, young offender institution or on probation. The exhibition runs until September 26.
Entrance to the exhibition is included in the cost of museum entry.
Young Ripon artists display work at Royal AcademyThree talented Ripon Grammar School artists have been selected from more than 17,700 students to have their paintings on display in a national exhibition.
The works by Isaac Henson, Hugo Wade and Milly Lennox will sit among those by 400 young artists picked by a panel of experts for the Royal Academy Summer Show, which launches online on July 12.
Milly, 15, from Ripon, said of her still life of a fish in acrylic:
“I really enjoyed using tone and texture and using my imagination to enhance the painting. I love being creative and find art a good break from other lessons, which don’t allow as much personal input.”
Isaac, 15, from near Kirkby Malzeard, enjoys exploring different forms and shapes and his painting of a building designed by architect Frank Gehry was chosen for the Royal Academy show.
Issac who is also from an artistic family hopes to continue creating art.
Young artist Hugo with his painting
Hugo, 13, from Studley Roger (pictured above) revealed that his painting was inspired by a photograph of a building in Ripon. He said:
“I couldn’t believe it when I heard I had been selected. It was very exciting.”
He would now like to go to art school and pursue a career in art, perhaps as a graphic designer.
Open to students up to 19 years old, the Young Artists’ exhibition, which provides a national platform to recognise particularly high quality student work, is now in its second year.
RGS head of art Fiona Henson said it was a real honour to be picked for such a prestigious national art show:
“We are thrilled to have three students selected and this was made even more special as we were determined lockdown was not going to stop our submission.”
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Supported by philanthropist Robin Hambro, the judging panel consisted of Royal Academician Cathie Pilkington, curator and head of the Royal Academy Schools, Eliza Bonham Carter and RA Schools students Catinca Malaimare and James Lomax.
Mr Hambro, said:
“It is such an important exhibition of artworks from young people, and the standard is very high. The enthusiasm for this exhibition shows how important art is for young minds and must always be a part of their educational life,”