Community Story
The 12 joys of Christmas
December 18, 2023
How do you round up a year like 2023? At Two Ridings we are acutely aware of the impact of the cost of living crisis on ...
Donate now to support Yorkshire people through the winter
October 9, 2023
With the onset of winter, and food and fuel poverty still rife amongst the people of the region, we have reopened the Co ...
Food bringing people together
August 14, 2023
There is a queue of almost 100 people when I arrive at Tang Hall Community Centre at 11.00am on a Wednesday in July. Man ...
I owe my life and my son’s life to York in Recovery
For 30 years John watched his son slowly deteriorate through his addiction to alcohol. Dan was often out of control, r ...
£1.3 million distributed in Hull to tackle loneliness and boost volunteering
July 26, 2023
Two Ridings Community Foundation is thrilled to announce that a further £1.1 million in funding is being distributed to ...
Creative partnerships fuelling wellbeing
June 20, 2023
The small market town of Bentham is about as far west in North Yorkshire that you can go before you hit Lancashire, and ...
Local funding supporting young people and their families
April 17, 2023
Nimbuscare, one of the largest ‘at scale’ providers of primary care in the North of England, set up the Nimbuscare C ...
Yorkshire charities fit for the King
Jan, our ever-busy CEO, was in the thick of it again last week, as part of a team introducing HM King Charles to some of ...
Exploring vibrant communities benefiting from local wind farm fund
April 4, 2023
Recently Katherine, one of our Programme Coordinators, met up with Two Ridings donor, Dickson Leung, to show him the imp ...
Hull to receive £1.3 million to boost volunteering and tackle loneliness
March 10, 2023
Two Ridings is delighted to be distributing £1.3 million in Hull to boost volunteering and tackle loneliness as part of ...
Local author donates book proceeds to Two Ridings
February 20, 2023
A local author who has written a best-selling funeral self-help book is donating the proceeds from sales throughout 2023 ...
Half a million target met for critical cost of living support
January 25, 2023
Thanks to generous donations from people and businesses all over York, North Yorkshire, Hull and East Riding of Yorkshir ...
Over £500,000 distributed in just 3 months
January 11, 2023
The Two Ridings team were so busy in the last three months of 2022 that we awarded more than half a million – £565,70 ...
Young people in Scarborough meet The Prince and Princess of Wales culminating in new funding launched to support mental wellbeing
November 4, 2022
Two Ridings Community Foundation were privileged to host The Prince and Princess of Wales at The Street in Scarborough o ...
Living below the breadline with winter looming
September 5, 2022
What the cost of living increase means to one York person with long term mental health conditions Two Ridings recently p ...
Summer celebrations at Gallows Close Centre
August 31, 2022
One thing we love at Two Ridings is getting out and about and visiting the community groups we support and in turn meeti ...
Courageous Conversations need generous leadership
August 11, 2022
In this guest blog, Jan Garrill, Chief Executive of Two Ridings explains her determination to have more courageous conve ...
Funding available for Tadcaster businesses and households affected by floods
May 4, 2022
Businesses affected by the floods in Tadcaster in February can now apply for funding from a new scheme managed by Two Ri ...
Being creative for the Queen’s Jubilee
April 11, 2022
A massive thank you to everyone who applied to the Let’s Create Platinum Jubilee Fund. We are delighted to let y ...
What is full cost recovery? And other questions answered at our monthly Drop-In
March 8, 2022
Our third monthly Friends of Two Ridings Drop-In took place on Monday attended by people from all over the region. We ha ...
A Valentine connection for the Deciding Together Fund grant recipients
February 15, 2022
Twenty one York groups who were successful in getting funding from the Deciding Together Fund to develop systems change ...
Catch up with the Two Ridings team in 2022 at our monthly Drop-Ins
December 14, 2021
At Two Ridings we are all about people and communities and wanting you to thrive. We’re looking at all the different w ...
Celebrating £85,000 distributed through THE LOCAL FUND for the Harrogate District in 2021
November 18, 2021
With a bonus ‘double your money’ incentive for donors to support the fund right now Local Community Groups, the M ...
£37,300 funding distributed to six grassroots community groups by Yorkshire Dragons
October 15, 2021
Last night, business leaders and regional investors alongside an excited audience of friends and supporters of regional ...
£45,000 distributed to help Harrogate district community groups restart post pandemic through THE LOCAL FUND
July 28, 2021
Nineteen local community groups in the Harrogate district were delighted this week to hear their applications for grants ...
Seeing how the Upfaders youth music programme transforms young peoples’ lives
July 1, 2021
‘We do it a bit differently here’, so starts our introduction to Biomation, by its founder Dan Axon ...
Hull’s Vulcan Learning Centre Bid Success
April 21, 2021
Vulcan Learning Centre successfully pitched and secured over £16,000 at a national event, back in January, by The Fundi ...
Selby Voice Resources
March 23, 2021
In March 2021 Two Ridings hosted a Selby Voice session with VCSE groups from across Selby District. The headline takeawa ...
YUMI creates an inclusive community in York
October 28, 2020
October is Black History Month and so the editor of our newsletter asked for a perspective on life in lockdown from Anne ...