A felled oak, a boyhood in Scriven and a bunch of flowers carried home from a garage have found their way into Thomas James Butler’s most personal exhibition. In Harrogate, the Yorkshire artist asks us to look again at the natural world - while there is still time

On a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust walk at Spurn, MagNorth explores erosion, wildlife, military history and the power of helping young people connect with conservation

Before the Olympics, the belts and Manchester’s arenas, there was Sale West - the family gym where Pat Brown learned that boxing is really about making good people

Across the Dales and North York Moors, more than 180 businesses are asking visitors to put down their phones, pick up a pen and send somebody a little piece of their holiday

Created in two months, funded from one animator’s pocket and built to travel between grassroots venues, LED ON brings an hour of original animation and independent northern music to Newcastle’s Cumberland Arms. Its modest beginnings conceal a rather audacious idea

At Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, darts is doing far more than creating champions. It's helping children discover numbers, confidence - and a game that really can include everybody

As Andy Burnham carries a northern model of public service into Downing Street, Greater Manchester’s Festival of Libraries offers both inspiration - and a test of what his promise to return power to every postcode might mean

Ripon’s newly transformed Workhouse Museum is reopening after a £2.8 million restoration - bringing the stories of poverty, punishment and survival out from behind the museum glass and asking what they might still teach us today

Myth, music and the threatened North Yorkshire coast came together inside a sold-out Bluebird Bakery, as Hannah Davies, Jack Woods and PitchWitches created an evening of rare emotional power

Ninety years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, People’s History Museum is remembering the British volunteers, fundraisers, families and working people who saw fascism advancing across Europe - and decided that neutrality wasn't enough

A new community garden beneath Chapeltown’s Reflections of Carnival mural will turn a landmark public artwork into a place to pause, gather and celebrate Leeds’ Caribbean heritage

Former Green Futures participant Willow Driscoll-Duke returns as a filmmaker with a documentary about nature, belonging and young people’s environmental hopes