Can you sing, act and maintain your composure when somebody mentions an underproved focaccia? Ilkley Musical Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring 2027 production of The Great British Bake Off Musical

From his rural home near York, Drew Colson is building singular analogue guitar amplifiers from Yorkshire hardwoods - beautiful enough to become heirlooms, but made to be played

Thirty years after Mark Herman’s film gave voice to a Yorkshire community being dismantled, Amy Leach’s magnificent staging proves that Brassed Off is no period piece. With monumental performances, astonishing live brass and one unsettling glimpse of the England that followed, this is theatre of fury, grief, solidarity - and stubborn Northern hope

Teesside is attempting to recover the metals hidden inside Britain’s discarded technology. Could urban mining create a genuinely northern industry - or will another promised economic revolution pass local communities by?

There's never been a more important moment to positively impact a young person's life

As Queen Anne returns to the Mersey, Liverpool is celebrating its maritime inheritance. But beneath the splendour of the Cunard Building lies another history: of class, departure and people carrying everything they owned towards an uncertain new life

At Insights North East’s 2026 conference, one conversation cut through the language of partnership and transformation: if policymakers want lasting change, they must understand why so many people no longer trust politics to deliver it

At Children North East’s Cowgate Centre in Newcastle, poverty isn't an abstract policy problem. It's bus fares, school shoes, hospital appointments, youth work, family stress and systems that still too often expect struggling people to meet them halfway

Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.

The people who know Nidderdale’s rivers, becks and footpaths best are being asked to help identify invasive species before they spread further. A few minutes spent recording what we see could contribute to years of better-informed conservation work

A landmark DNA study suggests Nidderdale could be one of England’s most important strongholds for adders - and a powerful reminder that healthy landscapes are connected landscapes

Helmsley Walled Garden began life feeding great houses. Today, beneath the castle and inside old brick walls, it is doing something quieter, deeper and perhaps more necessary: feeding confidence, companionship, memory and belonging

Milvus milvus: The formerly endangered migrant - that is now one of the North's most successful breeders

In the sound of the curlew lies the spirit of the uplands - and this spring, Nidderdale is answering that call with music, walking and a shared commitment to conservation.

A Big Birthday for two of our favourite NYM destinations

Where the Vale of York gives way to the chalk uplands of the Wolds - recent archaeological finds confirm East Yorkshire settlement as key historic intersection

Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself

Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years

For nine productive years, Crimea Street Films put terraces, factory gates and melancholy canals on the big screen – while largely overlooking the troublesome business of entertaining an audience. Now, its devoted Friends are taking the archive online

Morecambe Bay Fringe Festival has everything from cabaret and comedy to live music and spoken word for a landmark 10th anniversary edition of the festival that has underpinned a cultural renewal in the seaside town

Excitement builds for Nelson's very special Festival and Peace Walks

Born from an ancient selkie story, a debilitating illness and the strange confinement of lockdown, The Ballad of Blea Wyke brings poetry, live music and a haunted North Yorkshire coastline to York and Helmsley this July

At 50 MV, an artist-run gallery tucked into an unexpected corner of Merseyside, curators Luke Skiffington and James Bacchi-Andreoli have brought together 15 artists whose work stretches, cuts, folds and reassembles the language of painting. The result is an exhibition built with seriousness, instinct and a liberating sense of play

A vast, walk-through sculpture of colour, calm and curious corridors has landed on West Park Stray. We may be biased - but the Harrogate International Festival folk really do know how to make a place feel extraordinary