Calling all food lovers! A food and drink lover’s paradise awaits you at the Cheshire Showground Food Festival.

On August 10th and 11th 2013, the Cheshire Showground in Knutsford will play host to the ultimate gourmet experience, showcasing the best food and drink producers that the region has to offer.

There will be artisan goodies on offer and plenty of stalls to peruse. You can taste and savour, learn and create, and most importantly you will get the chance to stock up on the best local produce from across the North West. With top local restaurants and gourmet Street Food and Drink producers serving delicious dishes, a perfect alfresco feast awaits.

In addition, there will be plenty of family-friendly activities taking place at locations throughout the festival, from the Chill Out Zone to the Arts & Crafts Corner. The kids will love Family Fun, the area with a drop-in craft space for children hosted by the Manchester Craft Mafia Group. From face painting to creative crafts there is a wide range of activities for children of all ages.

This is the perfect opportunity for foodies to experience a wide variety of cuisine all in one place. Join us for two days of eating, drinking, crafts and entertainment as we celebrate the best local artisan talent.

This nine day festival will be running from Saturday 10 August until Sunday 18 August, with events to keep you active and entertained. The programme consists of walks, bike rides, canoeing classes, circus skills, storytelling, and much, much more.

Continuing to keep to our aim of showcasing ONLY the Ribble Valley’s and Lancashire’s finest food and drink producers, we’ve been very busy over the Winter scouting for new faces and products. The results of which are astonishing. Growth in this sector is something to be celebrated ‘up North’.

Over 100 producers will take centre stage at our event, all have been ingredients provenance checked, many also now work with each other to add to the quality value. All our participating professional and highly acclaimed chefs, also ALL hail from Lancashire. They volunteer their time to the event in support of their Lancashire ingredient suppliers. Each will offer visitors the chance to watch first class cookery demonstrations throughout the day.

We hope, as a valued visitor that you will make a date in your diary again to support the producers and chefs. The following pages will start to be filled with details of the events activities so keep returning or sign up for our newsletter, follow us on twitter, or like us on facebook!

Come with empty tummies as we promise you will be full t’bursting when you leave!

feva is Knaresborough’s annual festival of entertainment and visual arts. Every summer, for ten days a year, the town stages a wonderful array of shows and events.

You will find something going on in every corner of the town from street theatre and open air concerts, to live music and the art trail.

We are launching our girls wear brand ‘Laylamay’ this August with our debut AW13 collection, we want to build a British brand to last, our clothes are all made in England and we use as far as possible UK and EU fabrics. The clothes are designed to be transeasonal for our lovely British weather, giving maximum wear as well as stylish garments …

Lytham Proms Festival Weekend is the biggest musical and cultural event in the town and indeed the wider area. The event is held on Lytham Green, next to the iconic windmill and was brought back in 2010 for a one night extravaganza by Cuffe & Taylor.

Sunday 4th August

Multi-Brit Award Nominee and chart topping Rita Ora will headline the final night of Lytham Proms Festival Weekend 2013 on Sunday 4th August in one of her only headliner summer performances. Joining Rita Ora will be Conor Maynard and Stooshe. So, come on and join the party in style.

Michelin starred chef, Kenny Atkinson, has been announced as the top attraction at a seaside town’s first food festival. The food festival, run by market organiser Lorna Jackson, will feature a bigger than usual Saltburn Farmers Market, live music, children’s cookery area, farm yard petting zoo, and cookery workshops.

A large section of Milton Street in the town centre will be closed for the event and several local businesses will be involved in the food craft workshops.

For more information on the food festival check out the Saltburn Farmer’s Market facebook page and also on twitter @saltyfarmmarket.

The fairandfunky family fun day is a free community event for our customers. Celebrating the world in which we live and encouraging people to be creative and live sustainably. We would love to be part of the CATH summer roadshow to reach more people with our message and engage with a much wider audience.

fairandfunky is a community interest company based in Holmfirth. Our mission statement is “empowering people to take little steps to change the world”. We deliver interactive workshops to schools and community groups on Fairtrade, recycling and the environment, as well as selling Fairtrade, ethical and recycled products on our online shop. www.fairandfunky.com. We also run free events in our local community to give our customers access to both aspects of the business and enable them to take their little steps to change the world. The fairandfunky family fun day in August links up with other community organisations to provide a free day of workshops, live music, stalls and more!

Lytham Proms Festival Weekend is the biggest musical and cultural event in the town and indeed the wider area. The event is held on Lytham Green, next to the iconic windmill and was brought back in 2010 for a one night extravaganza by Cuffe & Taylor.

Saturday 3 August 2013

He’s known as ‘The Original Voice’, and has sold more than seven million albums worldwide. Now People’s Tenor Russell Watson is set to grace the Lytham Proms stage for 2013. In 2001, Russell’s debut album The Voice topped the UK Pop Charts. He will take to the stage with a 32 piece orchestra for his performance with special guests, Britains Got Talent Finalists Jonathan & Charlotte. The ‘Last Night of The Proms’ style concert – or as it has been affectionately dubbed by locals as ‘The Proms’- will be held on the Saturday night and Russell will take to the stage to perform alongside his special guest, and a 32 piece orchestra. Jonathan and Charlotte, the classical singing sensations who shot to fame in 2012’s Britain’s Got Talent, will delight the crowds on the Saturday evening alongside Russell. They performed in front of an audience of 14 million, and ultimately in front of Her Majesty the Queen, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Lytham Proms Festival Weekend is the biggest musical and cultural event in the town and indeed the wider area. The event is held on Lytham Green, next to the iconic windmill and was brought back in 2010 for a one night extravaganza by Cuffe & Taylor.

Friday 2 August 2013 – The 80′s Strikes Back!

‘THE 80’s STRIKES BACK’ bring you some of the 80’s biggest and best loved stars. The show features: Tony Hadley, Jason Donovan, Marc Almond, Heaven 17, Odyssey, Altered Images and Sonya. The new look 80s show is brought to you by Cuffe & Taylor. After the successful 80s night at Lytham Proms Festival Weekend 2012, Fylde’s biggest party is back and bigger than ever.

Accompanied by a live band, seven iconic 80s acts take to the stage to perform some of their biggest hits. So dust off the leg warmers and get ready to enjoy an evening of nonstop 80s classics.

Great British Food is alive and genuine at Turton Tower. Including an excellent range of individual and exotic foods and goods.

You can be sure all our farmers raise their own produce and customers will know exactly where it is coming from and what it is made of. Make sure you get here early so you don’t miss anything. When its been sold its gone!

The Victorian Kitchen Tea Room is open for lunches and you can take a stroll around our garden.

We have some fantastic craft stalls selling original goods, a stall selling specialist Asian Cuisine and Mrs Dowson’s Homemade ice cream- so something for everyone.

Diggerland is the Ultimate Adventure Park where children and adults can drive real diggers – no driving license required! With over 18 rides & drives there is sure to be something for everyone. Diggerland Yorkshire is located in Castleford, West Yorkshire and is open every weekend, bank holiday and every day during school holidays 10am to 5pm.

Get down to Diggerland on July 27th and see some of Diggerland’s biggest diggers like you’ve never seen them before! The Car Smash is a thirty minute spectacular where two of Diggerland’s operators will go head to head in a series of extreme car-crunching challenges! Watch in awe as the operators smash doors, rip off bonnets and much more. It’s the most exciting, the most extreme and the most extraordinary event of the season! The Car Smash event has no extra cost to admission.

For more information visit www.diggerland.com or call 0871 22 77 007.

Free Retail Workshop with Insight with Passion’s founder and retail business expert Kate Hardcastle.

The workshop will focus on how to create an excellent experience for the customer, and understand their needs to increase your sales. After the workshop, there will be chance for members to visit The Deep, one of the most spectacular aquariums in the world and home to a whopping 6,500 fish including Europe’s only pair of green sawfish, spectacular sharks and rays.

The event is open to businesses who are members of Welcome to Yorkshire. Please note that these workshops are very popular and places are limited, two people per organisation will be able to attend the workshops.

Find out more at http://wtyretailhull-eorg.eventbrite.com/

To find out how to become a member please visit www.yorkshire.com/membership or get in touch with Laura Kirk at lkirk@yorkshire.com

City Centre Cycle Racing will again return to Sheffield in July 2013. The 2nd Claremont Sheffield Grand Prix will be the final round of the British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series and will incorporate the British Cycling Womens National Road Race Series. The evening will be full of action packed racing and provide a great nights entertainment both for the family and cycling fans. There is no charge to watch the racing unfold so please make your way down to the race village for a great night of elite level cycling including all the top domestic professional teams. Live commentary will start at 6.30pm and final presentations will be around 9.30pm.

Stockeld Park is launching the brand new Summer Adventure on July 20th 2013, bringing a major new visitor attraction to Yorkshire and adding to its already exciting and varied calendar of events.

The new Summer Adventure will include an outdoor retro roller rink with roller disco every Saturday night, huge Yew tree maze, go kart track, one of the UK’s biggest jumping pillows, custom made slide, and electric scooters for hire through the interactive Enchanted Forrest.

A host of indoor games, play and crafts will also be launched so rainy days are covered at the attraction between Leeds and Harrogate.

Due to the success of the Halloween and Christmas Adventures, a significant investment has been made to transform the rural estate for the Summer Adventure, set to open between 20th July and 1st September.  

The new attraction will also create around 40 jobs, helping support the local economy.

This is the first time ever that the estate will open its doors during the summer – complete with a host of major new adventure play and experiences. 

This summer, along with our six galleries and over 400 interactive exhibits, Eureka! is putting on Playfest 2013 – our six-week family festival celebrating play. We have a different theme for every day of the week: Monday Mayhem, Time Travel Tuesday, Wild Wednesday, Theatrical Thursday, Fairy Tale Friday, Seaside Saturday, and Space Station Sunday, and each day will feature a variety of workshops, performances, and activities. Playfest is free with standard admission or the Annual Pass, and so offers fantastic family value. For more information please visit https://www.eureka.org.uk/events/playfest2013/

Woodfest is a low cost, high entertainment, live music festival raising funds for Sue Ryder – Manorlands Hospice.
Taking place over the weekend of 19th – 21st July 2013, Woodfest is set on Highcliffe farm with views over beautiful Bronte country.
With a varied line up of live acts, camping and 10 acres of rolling farm land, Woodfest offers a chilled weekend, packed full of live music, suitable for all ages and family groups.

‘Seafest’ is an International Maritime Festival that focuses on Scarborough’s maritime history.

The three day festival takes place around Scarborough’s Harbour, fishing pier and in community buildings and Public Houses of the old town. It brings together musical performances, seafood kitchen cooking demonstrations, visiting vessels, exhibitor displays, children’s entertainment & community activities and competitions.

There will be the annual Blessing of the Boats service on the West Pier.

Aspinall Ink and Yorkshire Sculpture Park proudly present:

#Yorkshirehourlive networking event at YSP

A summer gathering for people who enjoy #Yorkshirehour

Programme 

5.30pm onwards – Registration – YSP Centre

6pm – Guided walk in the grounds – dogs welcome on the walk*

6pm – Curator’s tour of Yinka Shonibare MBE exhibition in the Underground Gallery

6pm onwards – Strolling Magician, John Danbury 

7pm – Drinks reception brought to you by Czerwick’s of Brighouse

7pm – Welcome  - YSP Centre

7-9pm – Live Twitterfall in the YSP Centre Auditorium incorporating #Yorkshirehour brought to you by Wakefield Council and Ramsden’s Solicitors and a live #Twitterfall in the restaurant brought to you by YSP

7-9pm – Networking event with themed meeting points:

    – Food

    – Tourism

    – Arts and Crafts

    – Weddings

    – Charities and not for profit organisations

- Other businesses: Accountants, Printers, Virtual PAs, Plumbers, etc

* Dogs are welcome in the grounds but must be kept on a lead at all times. Dogs are not allowed in YSP Centre or galleries.  If it’s a hot day, please consider the welfare of your pet being left in the car after the guided walk.  

Networking with a twist 

Don’t worry that you won’t know who to talk to because, here’s the twist: when booking your ticket/s, you will be asked to register your interests. This will generate colour coded badges so that, at the event, you will be able to identify others in your sector/s – and they will be able to find you too.     

So, if you’re a food producer or supplier looking for an outlet – or a shop owner looking for suppliers, you will be able to easily find one another.  Or perhaps you’re an artist  looking for a gift shop to stock your work.  Maybe you represent a small local charity and would like to talk to businesses about gifts in kind or sponsorship. Or maybe you have holiday accommodation in Yorkshire and want to promote it to everyone.  Whatever your Yorkshire business, this event is for you!

There will also be themed ‘Meeting Points’ within the venue to make it even easier to find who you’re looking for.  (Just look out for the colourful helium balloons supplied by #Yorkshirehour supporters, Cardelium.)

Tweet up 

As this event includes a ‘Tweet up’ (a real live meeting of people who’ve tweeted each other), badges will also include Twitter names to help you put a face to the name – literally!  

The attendee list shows all the people who’ve booked so, if you fancy meeting up with someone in particular, why not tweet them in advance and agree a time and place to meet at the event?

#Yorkshirehourlive Twitterfall 7pm-9pm

Experience Wakefield and Ramsdens Solicitors are proud to support the live Twitterfall from 7pm-9pm in the YSP Centre Auditorium.  This will feature a live feed of all the tweets using the hashtag #Yorkshirehourlive so, whatever you tweet will be on the big screen.  8-9pm will be #Yorkshirehour so you’ll be able to see all the usual tweets too!

Sinead Sopala, Ramsdens Solicitors says, “We are delighted to be involved in such an innovative event.  #Yorkshirehour is a ‘social’ community effort and this event is testament to the strength of social media and bringing people together.” 

Celebrating local produce, events and innovation at Raisthorpe Manor