The Stray Ferret Business Awards, sponsored by Prosperis, will be held on March 9 at the Pavilions of Harrogate. Early bird tickets are available until February 9. The event will celebrate success and business excellence across the Harrogate district. It’s a night not to be missed! There’ll be a fabulous prize draw for all attending and Richard Flinton, the incoming Chief Executive of North Yorkshire Council, is guest speaker.
A Harrogate public relations firm has secured three international clients amid a growth in its business.
Cause UK, which is based on Victoria Avenue, helped French-based company Famileo, Pakistan charity CARE Foundation and lobby group Free Tibet with its communications over the past 12 months.
The agency, which represents a number of clients in the Harrogate district and beyond, specialises in generating regional and national media profile for clients.
Clair Challenor-Chadwick, managing director of Cause UK, said:
“It’s testament to the impact and reputation of our work that our agency was approached by a number of global organisations in the past year or so.”
Harrogate BID to host networking walk
Harrogate Business Improvement District is set to hold a networking walk as part of its next BID club meeting.
Starting at the Harrogate war memorial in the town centre at 5pm on Thursday (February 9), the walk will be led by Harry Satloka from Free Walking Tour Harrogate.
The BID club offer members a regular opportunity to hear from different speakers, find out key information about town centre events and initiatives, and to meet with fellow BID members, directors and the BID team.
The walk will end at the Disappearing Chin, on Beulah Street, for drinks and nibbles.
Bethany Allen, Harrogate BID marketing and business executive, said
“Harry will be taking us on our own private tour, where I’m sure even those who live here will learn something new about our wonderful town.”
BID members wishing to take part should register here.
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Boozy Tour of Harrogate to launch next month
The man behind the Free Walking Tour of Harrogate has launched a Boozy Tour in which people can enjoy alcohol whilst taking in the town’s history.
Harry Satloka grew up living in pubs with his landlord parents and said he had always been fascinated by their history, as well as by alcohol.
Over the past year, he has researched all types of alcohol including beer, champagne and gin to create a Boozy Tour which will take participants to four different venues for tastings.
The tour begins at the Old Bell where people will be offered three different beers and canapes. It then moves to Hales Bar where people will get the chance to taste champagne before heading to the Yorkshire Hotel for a gin tasting experience in the rooftop Sky Bar. Finally, they will go to North Bar for cocktails and charcuterie.
At each venue, Mr Satloka will tell the history of each type of alcohol as well as the venue. He said:
“It’s definitely not a booze cruise, it’s more of a cultural education experience with the benefit of getting a little tipsy.”
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The tour, which costs £55 per person, takes about three hours, with 45 minutes scheduled at each bar.
The tours begin at the Old Bell at 6.30pm on Friday and Saturday from April 15. Each tour can only take eight people so booking is essential.
Free walking tours back with new focus on Harrogate peopleHarrogate’s free walking tours are making a comeback with a new focus on the people behind the town.
Free Walking Tour Harrogate will restart on Wednesday next week with a six-person limit per tour. As usual, there will be four tours a day, five days a week.
With a tighter limit on numbers, tour guide Harry Satloka has urged people to book ahead online rather than just turn up to avoid disappointment.
The usual tour will now be accompanied by a new ‘locals tour’, which discusses the lives of Harrogate people.
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It will start in the usual place, at the war memorial, but will take people towards High Harrogate instead of Valley Gardens.
This new tour starts at 4.30pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays, including Bank Holidays.
Mr Satloka told the Stray Ferret about his new tour:
“I call it the ‘locals tour for local people’ but, of course, it is open to everyone. It will be more focussed on the people of Harrogate, I want to tell their story.
“Over the years I have found more of these stories but since December I have had the time to figure out a way to show off these amazing people
“It will still be fun but there will be a more sombre element to this tour as it is based around World War One and the Edwardian period.”
The locals tour will tell the story of Walter Ogden, who was the youngest son of Harrogate jeweller James Roberts Ogden.
Walter Ogden was just 19 when he died at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 in charge of a tank nicknamed Harrogate.
His story was only recently discovered during renovations at the Ogden Harrogate store in 2014.