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A message from Helen Dalton at The Yorkshire Dales National Park

Our focus is now on the cheese festival, celebrating local produce #CheeseFest19 which will take place on the 14^th and 15^thSeptember 2019 at the Wensleydale Creamery and for the following week we will be focussing on celebrating everything local until the 21st September 2019.

Mia Oldroyd, a Year 13 student at Richmond Sixth Form, will be sitting her A-levels in May, yet alongside dedicating hours of studying for her exams took on a demanding challenge of running 10k (approx 6 miles) each day for 12 days, in aid of the charity MIND.

A gifted young artist, from Richmond School and Sixth Form College, has won Bedale Community Library’s inaugural art competition to create a picture of a woodland friend for a secret garden mural in the children’s area of the library. Roxie Ventham, a Year 7 student, was made aware of the competition by her Grandma, Sharon Neale, a regular user of the library.  She entered a beautiful hand-drawn picture of a fox and was over the moon to discover that hers was the winning design.

The market town entered the competition in the Grow Your Community section of  the Yorkshire In Bloom region. This was the first time of entering the prestigious competition, which is supported by the Royal Horticultural Society and is aimed at encouraging gardeners, towns and villages to make their places more attractive and environmentally friendly by working together as a community.

Richmond School and Sixth Form Choir stepped out on stage at the Sage, Gateshead, for a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Collabro, the world’s most-successful musical theatre group. The 29-strong choir of boys and girls, ranging from Years 7 to 12, were chosen for the performance after Stephen Boyd, Lead Teacher of Music, auditioned for the ‘Collabro search for choirs’, submitting video footage and recordings of the choir.  The choir were delighted to be selected to sing with Collabro, the 2014 Britain’s Got Talent competition winners, as part of their 51-date tour, which culminates at the Royal Albert Hall in April.

It’s a big ‘YES@Richmond School’ as Lottery award sparks a legacy of inclusive sports across the North

YES@Richmond School is delighted to announce funding of £9,992 from the National Lottery Awards for All’s ‘Big Lottery Fund’, to support a series of inclusive community sport opportunities for young people with Development Coordination Disorder (DCD), from across the North Yorkshire, Co Durham and Teesside.

A talented, budding film animator, from Richmond Sixth Form College, had a taste of life in the movies when he spent a week working at the prestigious British Film Institute.

Mocha Chocolate Shop in Richmond are the 2018 winners of the David Doorbar Award for Innovation and Excellence in Retail. The Award is run each year in David’s memory by the Original Richmond Business and Tourism Association, of which David was Treasurer for many years.