What is Inside Yorkshire all about and why should you listen to it? This podcast will bring you an insider’s perspective of life in Yorkshire and some intriguing details about the lives of those who reside here. There is a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the area. These Yorkshire folk have amazing tales to tell.
Susan has lived in Yorkshire for over 30 years now and she interviews local people and gets them to share with you their lives, their hopes, their achievements and some of their dreams. So come on in, join us and follow us Inside Yorkshire.
Website: www.insideyorkshire.co.uk
You can contact Susan by email: susan@insideyorkshire.co.uk
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What is Inside Yorkshire all about and why should you listen to it? This podcast will bring you an insider’s perspective of life in Yorkshire and some intriguing details about the lives of those who reside here. There is a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the area. These Yorkshire folk have amazing tales to tell.
Susan has lived in Yorkshire for over 30 years now and she interviews local people and gets them to share with you their lives, their hopes, their achievements and some of their dreams. So come on in, join us and follow us Inside Yorkshire.
Website: www.insideyorkshire.co.uk
You can contact Susan by email: susan@insideyorkshire.co.uk
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This episode is actually recorded in the museum and as you will hear it is a thriving visitor attraction.Today Susan talks with Dr Helen Clifford, who, with her husband Alan, runs the Swaledale Museum in Reeth.
The Museum is based in the old Methodist School which was purchased in 1973 by the Law family who converted it into a Folk Museum. When it was to be closed in 2004 Helen and Alan came to the rescue and extensively restored it to become the museum that we now know and love.
There are some changes planned over this coming winter, and when you listen, Helen will explain all about it.
About the Guest:
Dr Helen Clifford curates the museum as well as being a freelance historian. She works for Grocers and Goldsmith companies in London, writing their histories and helping compile their archives.
Website: www.swaledalemuseum.org
Telephone: 07969 823232
Email: helen@swaledalemuseum.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SwaledaleMuseum/
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
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Susan Baty-Symes
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In this short episode Susan gives a shout out to her first Patron after launching her Patreon site with extended content. The podcast is now listened to in 87 countries with the largest number of listeners in UK and second most popular being the USA. Susan reminisces about her first flight in an aircraft taking her out to America to join an oil tanker and begin her career as a merchant navy deck cadet. It was not without its problems.
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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About the Guest:
Peter Heslop joins Susan in this episode talking about the changes that we are all becoming aware of, financial pressures experienced by a broad spectrum of individuals, and the need for support to help with living expenses. He is the Community Manager at Richmond's Influence Church whose staff and willing volunteers are doing sterling work supporting those in need, supplying food parcels, baby bundles, and school uniforms.
As Peter stated " The definition of poverty has shifted!" and the demographic of those turning up recently has changed. With recent price rises even those in full time work are finding it hard to manage, some are facing the choice between eating and heating their homes and we're not even into winter yet.
Regular food parcel collections are at the Influence church on Thursday evenings, with the regular time slots between 6 and 8pm. They also hand out advice and can point you towards relevant sources of assistance in these difficult times. As Peter told us, noone who arrives at their door needing help goes away empty handed.
Location: Influence Church, Richmond DL10 4AS
Website: www.influencechurch.co.uk/storehouse
Telephone: 01748-823161
Email: storehouse@influencechurch.co.uk
Facebook: @storehouse.foodbank
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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This episode features Debbie North, founder of Access the Dales, who, since becoming a wheelchair user, has campaigned tirelessly to break down barriers in all aspects of promoting accessibility for all.
After discovering in 2008 that she needed spinal surgery and fearing that she would never be able to walk on the fells again Debbie initially became despondent. Coping with such a changed life now confined to her wheelchair she began writing a blog about the challenges she was facing and called it Access the Dales. This prompted an offer from a friend to get her up to Goredale Scar in her wheelchair and that then inspired Debbie and her husband Andy to begin more challenges and start, as they called it, "making the inaccessible accessible".
A coast to coast walk, St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay in 2015 was a huge achievement with Debbie in an All Terrain Hopper and resulted in a book about their journey- In the spirit of Wainwright. They had walked the coast to coast path twice before Debbies surgery and each time in passing noticed a lovely house near Nateby. They were thrilled to hear that it was up for rent and it then became their new home in 2017.
Andy's untimely death in June 2021 hasnt stopped Debbie from forging forward with the plans that they had made together, setting up a charity in Andy's memory and calling it after her blog - Access the Dales.
It has just been announced that she has been made a Cabinet Office Disability and Access Ambassador for the countryside.
Ambassadors use their influential status as business leaders, to drive improvements to the accessability and quality of services and facilities in their sector for disabled people, as consumers and employees. They also work together as a group to galvanise and encourage accessability generally across the private sector, and work on projects of joint benefit.
Valuable Resources:
Website: https://access-the-dales.com
Email: accessthedales@gmail.com
Telephone: 07715964621
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accessthedales
Instagram: @accessthedales
Twitter: @debbienorth29 and @accessthedales
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan interviews Tom Addison over in Wensleydale. Tom is the creator of unique and bespoke items of fine furniture. Tom did his apprenticeship with the renowned Peter Hall and Sons, over in Kendal, before relocating and setting up his own business, TA Fine Furniture, near Askrigg in the Yorskshire dales.
As a youngster Tom was a keen fell runner, following in his parents footsteps, and starting at the age of 4. Realising that the more effort he put into his training the better results he could expect, Tom forwent partying and socialising with his friends in his teens in order to concentrate on his training, ultimately achieving the highest recognition by becoming English Fell Running Champion in 2014.
Tom seems to put his all into whatever he does, taking inspiration from the dales landscapes he produces beautiful items of furniture. By having his workshop attached to his home he is able to spend quality time with his wife and young daughters and somehow still manages to fit in some fellrunning!
The wood Tom uses is sustainably sourced and as local as possible from the National Park near Settle - The Wonder of Wood. The Gothic Throne that he made is in situ at the top of the Castle Tower at the Forbidden Corner near Middleham.
Items of furniture for sale are on display at the following locations:
Stacey Moore Art Gallery in Richmond
Heather and Grouse in Askrigg
Linda Joseph Designs in Kirkby Lonsdale
However if you need a bespoke item then dont hesitate to contact Tom through any of the following channels:-
Valuable Resources:
Email: tom@tafinefurniture.co.uk
Telephone: 07585 952951
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tom addison fine furniture
Instagram: @tomaddisonfinefurniture
Website: www.tafinefurniture.co.uk
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan talks to Mike Sparrow, deputy Chairman of Richmondshire Climate Action Partnership about the forthcoming event being held at Tennants in Leyburn to help beat the cost of living crisis.
If you are worried about increases in the cost of living - fuel, energy and food, and need to know what help is available, if you're struggling, then this event is for you. Helping Richmondshire Heat, Eat and Meet event is being held at Tennant's in Leyburn on Friday 1st July providing information, advice and practical help in these areas and more.
Admission is free and the event runs from 10am to 3pm.
If you can't get to it or are listening to this after the event there will be live streaming on the day and presentations will be videoed and uploaded afterwards. More details can be found on the Richmondshire Climate Action Partnership home page at
www.richmondshireclimateaction.org
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire’ Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan talks with Ed Taylor, an inspirational young entrepeneur, who, in spite of all the challenges going on recently, has actually set up his own successful business. At the age of 26, and with just two years running the company under his belt, Ed has 8 employees and is currently recruiting for more.
Having been brought up in Leeds and encouraged from an early age to work hard, Ed's work ethic is strong and he was earning money for himself from the age of 8. He relocated to the dales to be with his partner Aishlinn, and confesses that at the same time as he was falling in love with her he also fell in love with the rural lifestyle. Many would have found the challenge of starting a business daunting, at one of the most difficult times in recent history, however Ed has risen to this and has plenty of enthusiasm moving forwards.
So listen in to hear Ed's no nonsense approach, talking about what brought him to the dales and how his entrepeneurial mindset formed at such a young age.
Valuable Resources:
Email: eye4cleaningsolutions@gmail.com
Telephone: 07903-368132
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eye4cleaningsolutions
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eye4cleaning_solutions/
Website: www.eye4cleaningsolutions.co.uk (Website is currently under construction)
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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Today's episode is with Yvonne Macdonald, one of the coordinators running Richmondshire's branch of Home Start. This is a charitable organisation supporting families with young children and their aim is for every parent to have the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life. Home Start is a global organisation and started in the Uk in 1973. It grew in strength and now there are approximately 200 branches throughout the UK. It is also a worldwide organisation operating in 22 countries.
The local Richmondshire branch was set up in 2009, has Baroness Brenda Hale as a patron, and in 2020 was awarded the prestigious Queen's award for Voluntary Services. This award was in recognition for all the sterling work that has been carried out by the staff and volunteers. Due to Covid restrictions in 2020, an invitation to attend the Buckingham Palace Garden Party was delayed until this year, and has just recently been attended by a longstanding local volunteer.
Listen in to hear about the work carried out by the volunteers as well as the challenges faced by the coordinators to raise funds to keep the branch going. A five year Lottery grant got them off to a good start in 2009 and since then, due to their location, and the close relationship they have with the army in Catterick, they have received funding from the Armed Forces Covenant, and Army Central funds, to allow them to continue supporting families on the Garrison.
Valuable Resources:
Website: https://www.homestartrichmondshire.org.uk
Email: info@homestartrichmondshire.org.uk
Telephone: 01748-850079
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homestartrichmondshire
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/home_startrichmondshire/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichmondshireHS
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan talks to award winning author and entrepeneur Hannah Russell. Hannah started writing a blog about Little Alf, her minature shetland pony, when she was aged 16 and had her first book published at the age of 17. Since then she has written a series of books, 14 at the time of this interview. This includes an autobiographical account of life with Little Alf who has helped her over many of the challenges and ups and downs of recent years.Hannah has a small menagerie of rescue pets in the Yorkshire dales and they provide inspiration for her stories as well as actively being featured with her online.
Hannah believes in helping others and is an ambassador for 3 charities, Helping Rhinos, Brooke Action for working horses, donkeys and mules and Wild Welfare.She is also a charity fundraiser raising awareness for Sarcoma Cancer, recently having surgery and radiotherapy herself when she was diagnosed with sarcoma in 2020. Thankfully she is now in remission.
At the age of 25 she is a bundle of energy, designing clothing ranges to raise funds for the charities she supports and is soon about to launch a Wild and Country clothing range. In her free time she writes for the Yorkshire Times and is also illustrating a lot of her own work now.
Her mantra is " Live life to the fullest, make memories, keep smiling and don't look back" advice that many of us would benefit from following.
Valuable Resources:
https://www.hannahlittlealfandfriends.com
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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In this episode Susan chats with extreme wild swimmer Stuart Gledhill. Stuart is one of the founder members of the Dales Dippers swim group based in the Yorkshire dales and has been swimming oudoors since he was very young. Stuart is also a Brigantes Courier driver and in the summer months this gives him ample opportunity to check out new swimming places and if he has enough time he fits in swims between drops.
In light of the more recent surge in popularity of this sport Stuart talks about safety whilst swimming and the need to be aware of cold water shock. This is the automatic response that your body can have to cold water. Please check out the article by Suzie Wheway in the notes below...as Stuart says " dont let it put you off, but be informed to keep yourself safe".
Stuart has taken part in charity fundraising for Crisis, a dip a day every day in January which he took part in with other members of the Dales dippers group earlier this year. Every day in such cold temperatures is quite an achievement.
He also went to the Scottish Winter Swimming Championships in March this year and won a silver medal in the breast stroke section. This was a great surprise to him at the time so much so that when he chatted about it he couldnt remember which colour medal he won.
So listen in and enjoy learning more about his activities and why we say he is an extreme wild swimmer.
Valuable Resources:
Stuart Gledhill - Instagram he is @daleswildswim
Youtube: http://youtube.com/c/kitestu
Facebook: https://facebook.com/stuart.gledhill.5
Website: https://gledz.wordpress.com
Cold Water Shock article
https://m.facebook.com/groups/outdoorswimmingsociety/permalink/10159097932587830/
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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Welcome back to Inside Yorkshire
This is a short trailer with Susan talking about changes in her local area and a brief chat about what she has been doing whilst off air. A large proportion of her time has been taken up with a 100 wild swim challenge, mainly in the Yorkshire dales, raising funds for Wateraid. Moving forwards she is now training to be a mental health swim coach introducing others to this exhilarating sport.
Susan shares with you news about forthcoming events. This coming weekend Richmond Mayfest is being celebrated. It is the town's newest annual event, a festival of historical and traditional music taking place in and around Richmond over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. Concerts, folk sessions, wandering minstrels, maypole and morris dancing, medieval tavern, ceilidh, in venues from The Market Place to The Station and to The Castle, with many points in between. Lots of the events are totally free, and there are reduced prices for local residents at all the ticketed events.
Then from 28th May to 11th June the Swaledale Festival is back celebrating its 50th anniversery with a diverse programme of music, arts and walking events. Tickets are now on sale for this. Check out the interview we did with Malcolm Creese, the festival artistic director, Series 2 episode 7.
Coming soon, episodes will include an interview with Extreme Wild Swimmer - Stuart Gledhill and Debbie North- Founder of Access the Dales, a charity set up to break down the barriers that prevent people living with disabilities enjoying the great outdoors.
Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss these forthcoming episodes.
Valuable Resources:
Website: www.richmondmayfest.org
Email: richmondmayfest@gmail.com
Social media: facebook.com/richmondmayfest @richmondmayfest
Telephone: 07931 357618
Website: www.swalefest.org
Email: enquiries@swalefest.org
Telephone:Office number: 01748 880018
Box office: 01748 880019
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media, as well as sharing her love of the area where she lives. She moved to the dales over 30 years ago and is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home. Never ceasing to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' Susan shares news and views, interviewing some of the inspirational people who reside there.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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This episode features Topic UK founder and editor Gill Laidler. Susan and Gill talk about the aims of the non profit magazine and how it came into being over 7 years ago. Gill and her business partner were handling PR, marketing accounts and graphic design when they became aware that there was a lack of affordable platforms upon which local SMEs could share their information. Initially the magazine was just for Wakefield and district, however the demand for further coverage prompted the development of a Yorkshire wide publication. So Topic UK was born as a bimonthly magazine, published on alternate months, informing businesses across the Yorkshire Region, and featuring Yorkshire SMEs. Going from strength to strength the regular print run now is 10,000 copies.
About the Guest:
When Gill left school she worked in marketing for an advertising agency and by the age of 20 was running the agency and managing ten staff. She then worked producing staff magazines for Morrisons and Yorkshire television before setting up in business as Ghost Communications with her business partner handling PR, marketing and graphic design. This company was run in tandem with Topic UK until Topic became so busy that it took over as their main business. Occasionally work will come in for Ghost Communications but they only deal with repeat business for existing clients.
Another project that they have recently launched is the online Yorkshire Business Woman site to provide a platform for women,with the aim of producing another publication for this audience by the end of the year.
Valuable Resources:
Websites: www.topicuk.co.uk
www.yorkshirebusinesswoman.co.uk
Email: editor@topicuk.co.uk
Twitter: @gill_laidler or @topic_UK
Telephone number: 07711 539047
Address: TopicUK, Paragon Point, Paragon Business Village, Red Hall Crescent,
Wakefield WF1 2DF
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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This episode comes to you from Mozambique. Susan was surprised to discover that the conversations she had been having with Sam Hollis during networking meetings were actually taking place remotely from Mozambique. The story behind Sam's move to relocate, with his wife and two children, as organised a decision and process as that could be, took an unexpected turn when they were warned that South Africa was about to close down its airports due to lockdown. No spoiler alert here...they did make it but not quite in the timescale they anticipated.
About the Guest:
Sam is a web designer and usually living in Yorkshire. He and his family have moved temporarily to Mozambique where he is still running his business remotely. He did actually confide that internet provision is better in Maputo than it was in his home in Yorkshire and due to the current lockdown situation no one is surprised that he is not working out of an office. Sam provides a pay as you go website design service which helps those in business who cannot afford the upfront cost of having a website designed for them.
Sam has travelled extensively in the past on kayaking expeditions and also talks about some of the trips he has taken following this hobby. Unfortunately, although they have shipped out their kayaks, the Hollis family will have to find somewhere else to paddle once they have settled in...the Zambezi river nearby has hippopotami and crocodiles!
Valuable Resources:
Website: www.samhollis.co.uk
Email: sam@samhollis.co.uk
Telephone number: 01482 426427
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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An interesting episode going behind the scenes discussing the challenges of editing a local monthly magazine. In this episode we talk with Mike Barden who has taken on the role of editor for the Reeth and District Gazette. This is a challenging role and Susan and Mike discuss his individual take on it. The conversation ranges from mental health issues, homeworking and Fujitsu, to Monty Python and UFOs. Never a dull moment behind the scenes in the production of the Gazette.
About the Guest:
Mike moved to Reeth with his family in March 2019, after holidaying in Yorkshire for many years and chose to relocate to the dales where they are now involved in the dales community. They couldn't anticipate the challenges of two local floods and now a pandemic to contend with, all within their first year here. Mike has a disability passport and discusses the extra difficulties he lives with on a daily basis. Editing the Gazette has proven to be a challenge that he finds helps to keep his active mind and predisposition to anxiety at bay. As a team leader for Fujitsu he has a high powered and demanding job and yet he also manages to fit in his volunteer editorial role on the Gazette.A busy man indeed.
Valuable Resources:
Editor: Mike Barden, King's Cottage, Reeth, Richmond DL11 6SX
Tel: 01748 884737
Email: editor@reethGazette.co.uk
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
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Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan interviews Johnny Pawlick from Mantra Media in Sheffield, an ethically driven digital marketing firm. The company is headquartered in both the UK and Japan and they have had the privilege to work with over 400 organisations across the globe.In today's episode Johnny discusses the relevant benefits of different social media platforms and the changes he has witnessed whilst working in the industry. He is very concerned about the current global situation we are experiencing and talks about the routines he and his team are endeavouring to follow in order to keep morale high.
About the Guest:
Johnny is enthusiastic about his work and talking to him is like a breath of fresh air. He studied at Oxford University, holding a 1st Class Honours degree in communication, media and culture, with a post grad qualification in Political Philosophy. Over 18 years of experience in online marketing set him on the path to found his own digital media company. He created Mantra media over 5 years ago and also co founded the Japanese luxury heritage brand, Atelier Japan.
Valuable Resources:
Website: www.mantrahq.com
Email: hello@mantrahq.com
Telephone: 0114 299 9213
Address: Mantra Media, Ikigai House, 113, Arundel Street, Sheffield, S1 2NT
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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Fairhursts catering has, like many other businesses,been hit by the current lockdown. They have been in the business of providing delicious food since the 80's and specialise in catering for events and weddings. Working out from their kitchen in Swinithwaite, in Wensleydale, they would usually be busy serving teas and catering for weddings at Bolton Castle as well as running their popular farmshop and cafe at Berrys. This year was projected to be one of their best so far with over 30 weddings and most weekends booked, however no one could have predicted the situation we all currently find ourselves in.
So what to do? They began providing locals in isolation with free delivery of their delicious ready cooked meals, not realising how popular this service would become. They have had to totally change the way they are operating and now, what began as a small venture, has blossomed into a busy service with around 400 scrumptious meals wending their way weekly to grateful recipients. The dales are quiet at the moment, restaurants,cafes and pubs are closed. So, for any of you fancying a night off cooking and top quality food, Guy talks about their plans for the future, expansion to further afield and what his company is doing to keep the business operating.
Website: www.fairhursts.co.uk
Telephone: 01969 624668
Address: Berry's Farm Shop, Swinithwaite, Leyburn, DL8 4UH
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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This episode is all about the wonderful support network being run by Herriot Hospice Homecare, Saint Michael's Hospice and the Just 'B' Here to Help lines. Tony Collins is the CEO overseeing all this activity with a team of 200 staff members and 6-700 willing volunteers. They provide 40-60 hours per day of support in the homes. Tony talks today about the range of services available, in Harrogate district as well as Hambleton and Richmondshire. These are expanding to meet the current and foreseeable future requirements due to extra pressure we are all under at this current time.
A newly set up helpline "Here to Help" offers nationwide support for children and adults, in short for anyone affected by Covid 19 who needs additional help. They provide emotional wellbeing advice, as well as bereavement and anxiety support. They are also involved in providing NHS staff with the anticipated additional bereavement and trauma support necessary due to the pandemic.
Valuable Resources:
Websites: www.herriothh.org.uk
"Here to Help" anxiety Helpline is 01423-856799
Just 'B' bereavement support
Tel: 01423-814480 (adults)
01423-856790 (children)
Email: info@justb.org.uk
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the inspirational stories that people tell.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan is in conversation with Stewart Leahy, the founder of Yorkshire Powerhouse and Powerhouse Networking. If you are curious about what drove Stewart to set up the not for profit company, then listen in. He talks about his business journey and what drove him to set up Powerhouse after selling his design and marketing company. He is in semi retirement now but you wouldn't guess that when you hear what he gets up to.
You'll be amazed at the quantity of information and support available through Yorkshire Powerhouse to assist SMEs both during start up and whilst running Yorkshire businesses. Here you can be assured of quality information, genuine independently written and blunt, typically Yorkshire, advice!
Also, during our current situation, zoom calls are becoming a necessary business skill and Stewart has written one of the many guides available on the Powerhouse website giving great advice about getting started with this. The website has pages of valuable information, so do check it out.
About the Guest:
Stewart hails from Wakefield initially and now lives and works in Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield. He has been in sales and marketing all his working life and now, after selling his design and marketing company, in semi retirement, has set up Yorkshire Powerhouse. He aims to help small and medium sized companies during start up and whilst growing, to create a thriving business culture in his home county.
Valuable Resources:
Website: www.yorkshirepowerhouse.com
Email: hello@yorkshirepowerhouse.com
Telephone: 0113-8921229
Address: 40 Gordon St, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield HD7 5LH
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire' and the tales that people have to tell.
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Susan Baty-Symes
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Have you ever wanted to own an English pub but couldn't afford the investment? Well 167 investors have bought shares in a pub in the Yorkshire dales and can now say that they part own the King's Head pub in Swaledale. Gunnerside's popular pub has had a chequered history and in this episode Susan talks with Tracey Westgarth about the process the local community went through to turn their village pub into a community owned one.
The King's head is now tenant run and community owned but faces the challenges all public houses face at this present time during lockdown. The purchase process began last September and the community support has been tremendous. Shares were released in February 2020 and within 5 days the share offer was oversubscribed, and now has a waiting list in reserve. At a time when all pubs are closed the enthusiasm of the committee has ensured that the purchase still went ahead in order to secure the deal.
Advice and support was enlisted from the Plunkett Foundation who were involved from the start of the project. Also the team from The George and Dragon in Hudswell, a hugely successful local community owned pub, were happy to share their experience and advise the commitee on how to proceed with managing their membership. The next step forward is to proceed with repairs whilst awaiting government permission to reopen, and we look forward to a big party when that happens.
Valuable Resources:
Pub website: www.kingsheadgunnerside.com
Foundation website: www.plunkett.co.uk
Address: Plunkett Foundation,
The Quadrangle,
Woodstock,
Oxfordshire,
OX20 1LH,
United Kingdom.
Email: info@plunkett.co.uk
Tel: 01993-810730
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire'.
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Susan Baty-Symes
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In this episode Susan talks to Julian Norton who is one of the vets featured in The Yorkshire Vet television programme on Channel five. This popular series is currently into its tenth series airing weekly on Tuesday evenings. The filming of series eleven has unfortunately been halted temporarily due to the coronovirus pandemic.
In this episode Julian talks about his new book A Yorkshire Vet - The Next Chapter, which documents his move from his old practice in Thirsk to his present employment in Boroughbridge. The move made him feel like a graduate again, having to familiarise himself with not only the workings of a new practice but also having to learn the whereabouts of farms and clients. This challenge was sometimes in the dead of night, with the often unreliable satellite navigation suffered in areas of the dales.
About the Guest:
Julian Norton is a mixed practice veterinary surgeon, currently working in Boroughbridge at Rae, Bean and Partners. He previously worked in Thirsk as a partner in the practice that was once the surgery from which Alf Wight worked (famous as the vet who wrote the James Herriot books). Julian has recently opened a new independent small animal practice- Sandbeck Veterinary Centre, in Wetherby.
He has his own podcast "The Naked Vet" which he performs with Kate Fox, a comedian and stand up poet.
Valuable Resources:
Website: www.thenakedvet.co.uk
Books currently published are:
About the Host:
Susan is actively involved in promoting Yorkshire businesses with audio production and on social media. She has been living in Yorkshire for over 30 years. She is passionate about the county she has adopted as her home and she never ceases to be amazed at the wealth of talent ‘Inside Yorkshire'.
Contact Method for Inside Yorkshire
Susan Baty-Symes
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