York to host sixth jobs fair

City of York Council is inviting jobseekers and residents wanting to improve their skills and qualifications to attend a jobs fair at York Railway Institute on Thursday 19 March from 10am to 3pm.

The event, which has been organised through partnerships between the council, York Learning, Job Centre Plus and Learning City York, looks to bring together local employers to offer advice and the chance to speak face to face to businesses about employment opportunities in the city.

A range of employers will be present at the event, along with learning providers and other agencies offering free advice for people to improve their skills and assist them in their search for employment.

The event will also offer the chance to speak to 60 businesses who are currently recruiting in York, including; Hiscox, PMP recruiting for Nestlé, City of York Council, CGC Events Ltd (York Racecourse Hospitality), McDonalds and York Chocolate Story.

The fair will also have a designated quiet area to enable residents to fill in application forms with the help of some excellent local skills and training providers.

 

New disability sports clubs springing up in York

A range of new and inclusive disability sports sessions are launching this month for residents who want to take up Boccia, Bowling, Badminton and Wheelchair Basketball in York.

London Paralympics: Wheelchair Basketball - London 2012

Organised or supported by the council’s Sport and Active Leisure team, these exciting sessions will help offer equality of opportunity for disabled sportspeople in the city.

The activities have been developed in partnership with established and local community sports clubs across the city, who will take on the running of the sessions themselves and embed them within their own regular programme of sports. These new opportunities offer value for money to participants and support the council’s work towards creating financially sustainable health and wellbeing opportunities for everybody across the city.

The development of the new Boccia club is being led by Beth Moulom, a GBR Lions Squad (GBR development squad) player and her mother Liz who is an international coach and referee, who are keen to set up a new competition standard club. Badminton sessions have been requested by the Deaf community in a recent council Deaf and hard of hearing sports survey.

  • The new sessions are open to all ages and abilities with details as follows:
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Plan ahead for the Tour de Yorkshire

City of York Council is encouraging residents and visitors to plan ahead for Saturday 2 May when stage two of the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire will finish in York.

Stage two of the Tour de Yorkshire will see riders setting off from Selby, racing through the East Riding of Yorkshire before making their way to York. The peloton will enter York from the A166 before taking on two and half laps of a 20km finishing circuit, around the city from the Racecourse and out to Murton, with the finish expected to be between 3.30 and 4pm.

A professional women’s race will cover five laps of the same 20km finishing circuit in the morning, with the race starting at 11am at Knavesmire Road. This will give people another great chance to see world class cycling in York.

The fast-paced circuit will see the cyclists negotiate the city’s historic streets including the bar and cobbles of Micklegate and the beautiful bar walls along Paragon Street.

The circuit also makes a welcome return to Bishopthorpe Road to replicate scenes that were seen across the world during the Tour de France.
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