The charity is on a mission to raise £1m to combat child poverty in a new campaign.
As the number of young people living below the poverty line sadly reaches its highest level in more than 20 years, the Yorkshire Children's Charity's new campaign looks to impact 25,000 children's lives for the better.
The charity is calling on people across the UK to donate £25 to “light a star” for a child living in poverty.
Each individual donation will go straight to improving the life of a child in Yorkshire, with all donations given directed straight to beneficiaries to help a child with a need that wouldn’t otherwise be met.
Yorkshire Children’s Charity is working to raise 25,000 stars in 2024 as part of a wider fundraising drive this year.
Supporters can help the charity by getting involved with fundraising events throughout the year, volunteering at sporting fundraisers, seasonal donation drives, and so much more.
The Light a Star campaign has launched this week and will culminate at the Night Under the Stars fundraising gala taking place in September 2024.
Image: Yorkshire Children's Charity
The exciting event will feature an exclusive performance from Olly Murs along with fantastic food, drink and entertainment in the beautiful setting of Grantley Hall. You can grab your tickets here.
Charlotte Farrington, Founder and CEO of Yorkshire Children’s Charity, said: “The state of child poverty in our region is unprecedented and completely unacceptable. The youngest, most vulnerable people in our society are in desperate need of help and it is our collective responsibility to support them wherever and however possible.
"By answering our call to Light a Star for a child in Yorkshire from just £25, each and every supporter will make a tangible difference to a child living in poverty this year.”
The tiramisu hype lives on, and this time it's coming to Leeds.
It really does feel like the traditional Italian dessert has taken the world by storm as of late.
Everything from tiramisu cups and tiramisu coffees have been popping up all over our feed, and now tiramisu in drawer form is popping up in the city centre.
Misu Tiramisu is an independent business that began at Manchester's Christmas Markets and quickly became one of the most popular operators, all thanks to its miniature tiramisu ‘drawers’.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
The individually portioned and colourfully packaged desserts quickly became one of town’s top puddings, and owners Aleem and Aishah went on to launch a stand inside the Manchester Arndale too.
And now they’re branching out again in Leeds inside Trinity shopping centre for a two month residency.
You’ll find all their delicious flavours of handmade tiramisu, including classic, pistachio, chocolate, Biscoff, mango, and lemon - they'll also have some gluten-free tiramisu on offer as well, so no one has to miss out.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
Misu Tiramisu owners Aleem and Aishah spent a year refining the recipe for their tiramisus after a trip to Milan, first launching with their first market stall in Sale.
Misu Tiramisu is now open inside Trinity shopping centre opposite Boots Opticians and Pop Specs.
They're open every day of the week for you to get your tiramisu fix, from 9am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and from 11am to 5pm on a Sunday.
And trust us Leeds, they're just as delicious as they are adorable.
Fossilised 320-million-year-old fish found in Leeds’ Roundhay Park
Clementine Hall
A prehistoric fish fossil has been unearthed at Roundhay Park in Leeds.
The fascinating prehistoric skull bone of a coelacanth fish was discovered by a geologist at Roundhay Park earlier this year.
It is thought the creature was frozen in time aeons ago, during an era when the park was submerged under a vast tropical lagoon.
The remarkable discovery has now been kindly donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries and added to the natural sciences collection at Leeds Discovery Centre.
Image: Leeds City Council
The Leeds fossil was found by Ru Smith of the Yorkshire Geological Society during a reconnaissance walk he was carrying out ahead of a planned field excursion in the north Leeds park.
Describing the moment he made the discovery, Ru said: “There’s a layer of rock in the park which dates from around 320 million years ago, from a time before the breakup of the continents, when what is now the park would have been situated close the Equator and under the warm waters of a tropical lagoon. West Central Africa would be a good place to find similar environments in the present.
“There’s a bed of freshwater mussels called Carbonicola at one level in the rock, and opening a piece of shale from this bed in my hands I saw something unusual – a distinctive skull bone of a large fish. I knew straight away this was something different and very rare."
The bone was verified byexperts as belonging to a coelacanth older than those found elsewhere in Yorkshire, making it the oldest fossil coelacanth discovered in the region.
Ru added: “Coelacanths are pretty amazing fish and it’s just very cool to think that at one time, you could have been standing in Leeds and watching them swim around above a bed of mussels in Roundhay Park.
“That’s really the wonder of geology, looking at the rock and time travelling in the imagination to what was a very different world.”
Clementine Hall -
12th July 2024 
