Holgate Windmill will be open on two weekends next month,
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7th June,
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June.
The hours for each day are 11 to 4.
Admission costs £3 for adults, £1 for children aged 5-18.
Please park along Acomb Road or take the No 1 bus and walk up the snickleway by the bus stop.
Following in the sprightly footsteps of the Walk 2 Jog programme, City of York Council’s Sport and Active Leisure team is introducing a new course to help more people jog even further.
Developed following the successful Walk 2 Jog programme which helped beginner joggers to complete a five kilometre (5k) run, this course steps up the distance from 5k to 10k.
The programme is timed to help people to run a full distance at the Jane Tomlinson’s Run For All ASDA Foundation York 10K on Sunday 2 August.
A group of up to 20 participants, led by fully-qualified run leaders, will gradually increase jogging distances each week and will receive suggestions for additional exercise to complete between sessions to help achieve the 10k goal.
This longer distance course offers ideal progression for anyone wanting to increase their jogging distance and is another way in which the council is encouraging more people to undertake moderate intensity physical activity for 150 minutes a week.
Sessions start Wednesday 27 May at 6.30pm from Rowntree Park and will continue weekly for 10 weeks. The course costs £15. Everyone is welcome, but participants should already be able to jog 5k.
For further information and to book your place please contact Dean Sharp on 01904 553377 or e-mail dean.sharp@york.gov.uk
In the tyre tracks of the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire City of York Council’s Rowntree Park will play host to the exhilarating Morvelo CityCross on 13 June.
In CityCross everyone is a winner. There will be races for Under 12’s, Youths, Juniors, Women Only, Novices, Seniors and Veterans. CityCross is a bike race and a party all rolled into one and as much fun to watch as to race. Spectating is free, and positively encouraged.
With trade stands, artists exhibiting and artisan food stalls and a purpose built challenging course in the grounds of Rowntrees Park the event has all the hall marks of a big cycling fun packed party for all the family.
David Short, i-Travel York programme manager said, “I am delighted that Morvelo have approached us with a view to staging the event in York which we are pleased to support. All the evidence shows that if you get people into cycling in a fun environment then they are more likely to take it up as their preferred choice of travel. Cycling keeps you fit, is better for the environment, reduces traffic congestion and is cheap!”
Emma Osenton, the organiser from Mills Events says, “CityCross is very popular. We have run these events in Halifax, Leeds and other UK cities and we are delighted to be able to bring CityCross to York, an iconic cycling city.
For more information on CityCross York visit http://www.citycross.co.uk/
Visiting Chapelfields and Westfield Place on Saturday
The timetable below will be updated as and when necessary
Schedules for other parts of the City can be found by clicking here
NB. The last – Labour led – Council decided to suspend skip visits to some estates.It is anticipated the the new coalition led Council will be reviewing this decision as soon as is practical.
