Yorkshire Children’s Charity is launching its 2024 Winter Support Campaign, aiming to support families by offering essential items.
Now that children have gone back to school, and the weather has turned, families are feeling the cost-of-living crisis more than ever.
To keep children warm this winter, Yorkshire Children’s Charity's 2024 Winter Support Campaign aims to support families by offering essential items like warm, waterproof coats, school shoes, bedding, and pyjamas.
Towards the end of the year, the charity will also be helping families to provide festive gifts.
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Last year, the charity supported 1058 children with winter essentials and Christmas presents, delivering over 9000 items across Yorkshire, and have already received over 2000 applications for 2024.
As a result of last year’s campaign, 87% of schools reported students are warmer and drier as a result of the winter coats that were provided, 26% of schools reported an improvement in attendance as a result of putting new, dry shoes on feet and 82% of schools reported an improvement in children’s wellbeing.
Yorkshire has the third highest rate of child poverty in the UK, with 31% of children living in the region currently living in poverty.
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Yorkshire Children’s Charity aims to relieve some of the immediate struggles of families living with poverty and disability, while in the long-term they are working to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty across the region. The Winter Support Campaign is just one of many programmes that run throughout the year.
Want to get involved? Whilst the first round of the Winter Support Campaign has closed whilst the charity fulfils the current applications, a second intake will open up in January 2025.
After six years in the city, independent homeware retailer North Home is closing its Leeds city centre shop.
If you're a lover of all things home then you'll have most likely visited the gorgeous North Home shop in the Victoria Quarter.
Stacked to the brim with unique pieces from striking ceramics to stylish soft furnishings, North Home is known for its well-curated stock and great customer service.
Seriously, we've probably spent a good hour in here in awe of all the beautiful pieces.
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Last week, curious shoppers noticed the three-storey store was suddenly empty and now the company have confirmed that they have closed for good.
In a statement, they said: "After nearly 6 wonderful years trading in Leeds, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our physical store while we restructure the business and explore the next chapter for North Home.
"Retail has changed significantly in recent years and, like many independent businesses, we’ve faced increasing costs.
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"Taking this step now gives us the opportunity to protect what we’ve built and focus on the future of the brand. North Home continues to operate online and all existing customer orders will be fulfilled as normal although delivery times may be slightly extended.
"We’ve loved being part of the Leeds retail community since 2020 and are incredibly grateful for the support we’ve received. We hope to share more about our plans soon."
We'll be sad to see them go and we hope this isn't goodbye forever, but you can still shop from North Home online here.
Neighbourhood Leeds bistro hailed as ‘a bit horny’ and ‘brilliant’ by national critic Camilla Long
Clementine Hall
Food critic Camilla Long visited Leeds for her latest review for The Times with her sights set on Horsforth's finest - Bavette Bistro.
Ever since opening back in 2024, Bavette Bistro nestled in the leafy suburb of Horsforth has made waves across the country for its sheer brilliance.
It's pretty much received five star reviews across the board and been handed awards from left, right and centre. And rightly so.
The Good Food Guide crowned Bavette the best local restaurant of 2024, and Michelin handed them a well deserved Bib Gourmand - so it's safe to say it's not just us who think it's really something special.
So it was only a matter of time until The Times popped in for a review, and this one is truly glowing.
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The review labels Bavette as "warm, unmannered and unpretentious" as well as "authentically French".
Long describes the food as "gorgeous, confident, surprising" with a menu that "isn’t too long" and "filled with sturdy, noble dishes, whiffing mightily of the sea and the soil."
It continues: "All of it made with generosity and cheer, served fast by nimble waiters, with a long, if slightly eccentric, wine list. To bang out French dishes with this much fiddly detail and to do it to a full room is not easy. Yet all four courses came in under two hours, for about £75 a head, which in London terms is nothing.
"It’s not that this place was perfect, it’s that it was decidedly not perfect. A bit too much chat about the menus; the oeufs in the meurette not quite runny enough. But the point is: it didn’t matter. All of it came charmingly together. It felt relaxed, just right."
The review is then wrapped up with a pleasing five stars, the cherry on top of the cake.
It's a review only restaurants can dream of, and we can't think of a more deserving team - congratulations Bavette.
Clementine Hall -
28th October 2024 
