North Yorkshire Together is a partnership between North Yorkshire Sport, North Yorkshire Youth and Rural Arts. We support communities across the county to feel happy and healthy.
The partnership emerged during the pandemic as an emergency response programme, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. We delivered thousands of activity packs, digital devices and bursaries to thousands of those most impacted by the pandemic, alongside a free-to-access online arts programme for people of all ages.
North Yorkshire Together’s flagship project is FEAST, the Holiday Activities with Food (HAF) Programme in North Yorkshire, delivered on behalf of North Yorkshire Council since 2021, funded by the Department for Education. HAF programmes enable children on benefits-related Free School Meals to access food and enriching activities during the Easter, Summer and Christmas holidays. North Yorkshire Together works with 100+ brilliant organisations from across the community, educational and private sectors to deliver tens of thousands of free spaces – and meals – on FEAST each year.
North Yorkshire Together also delivers creative and physical activities for refugees. Our sessions include a huge variety of activities and, importantly, are led by the interests and needs of the specific groups we’re working with. In Selby District we work with adult men, running physical activity sessions including indoor activities like HIIT workouts and bodyweight sessions, as well as outdoor group games such as cricket and football.
North Yorkshire Together is proud to be a partner in Village Green, a three-year, £1.2 million programme putting communities at the heart of climate action across North Yorkshire. Led by Community First Yorkshire and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, Village Green is all about making climate action practical, positive and part of everyday life. The project recognises that meaningful change starts locally – in our villages, towns, community buildings and green spaces – and that when people come together, small steps can lead to lasting impact.
Rural Arts
Rural Arts is a registered charity that delivers inspiring and inclusive creative opportunities that enrich lives and connect communities. Working across 3,500 square miles of England’s largest county, our vision is creativity in every community in North Yorkshire.
We provide over 400 events and activities each year at The Courthouse, North Yorkshire’s only professionally run cross-discipline arts centre, which is also home to an award-winning café, an artisan shop, and rooms to hire.
We programme 70 professional performances per year in rural venues and lead a range of wellbeing and employment programmes to support vulnerable people. Rural Arts was founded in 1993 and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
Find out more at www.ruralarts.org
North Yorkshire Sport
North Yorkshire Sport is a registered charity and the Active Partnership for North Yorkshire and York. We use movement, activity and sport as drivers for positive change. We want North Yorkshire and York to be a place where everyone enjoys moving more, leading to healthy and happy lives.
Our work is primarily focussed on supporting and influencing wider systems to use movement, activity and sport to improve people’s health and wellbeing. This includes partnership working with a wide range of organisations, from Sport England to Local Authorities, as well as the voluntary and commercial sectors. To support this work, we run a number of direct delivery programmes countywide as well as at our own facility in Harrogate, the Bilton Health and Wellbeing Hub.
Find out more at www.northyorkshiresport.co.uk
North Yorkshire Youth
North Yorkshire Youth is a registered charity and exists to ‘To help children and young people realise their full potential by enhancing and improving our range of learning and development opportunities’.
That was the vision of our founders, way back in 1941, and it’s still our aim today.
We provide opportunities for children and young people to learn and grow by:
- Supporting youth work in North Yorkshire communities
- Providing adventurous activities from Carlton Lodge Activity Centre
- Providing training opportunities for young people and those who work with them.
Here you can find our Youth Directories, there’s a booklet for each area in North Yorkshire to help you find what’s on for young people near you: https://www.nyy.org.uk/development
Find out more at www.nyy.org.uk and www.carltonlodge.org.uk