The Best Independents for all of the Back to School Essentials
The school holidays are a welcome break to spend some quality time with each other. Day trips out and family nights in, they are an essential fun-filled bonding experienc...
Evergreen Businesses: Celebrating York’s Garden Centres and Nurseries
As the days grow longer and the light spreads wider, there is a renewed vigour to get outside and enjoy the wonders of nature. This year that feeling resonates more than ...
The High Streets Are Alive
Unfortunately for many of us, the past year has forced us to swap the trope of visiting a local thriving highstreet with tireless returns to the two websites we have annu...
Happy International Women’s Day! Mother’s Day Gift Ideas From Indies Owned by Women
Happy International Women’s Day!
With Mother’s Day following so closely after International Women’s Day, what better way to celebrate our Mum’s and all that ...
Celebrate World Book Day with the Book of York!
But explore a little further, and there are lesser showcased charms throughout this wondrous city. Bubbling beneath the surface are an abundance of independent shops, ven...
The York Independents that Rose to Fame in Lockdown
It goes without saying that independent businesses across the country have faced a devastating knock as a result of the pandemic, leaving owners fearful for the futures o...
Lockdown Shopping in York: The Local Survival Guide
And so here it is: the Local Survival Guide is an online resource designed to showcase the fantastic local gems on your doorstep and how to transact with them from a dist...
Fun Days Out in Scarborough
Perhaps Yorkshire’s most famous coastal town, Scarborough emits a character quite unlike any other. Spanning a glorious coastline on which two bays of sandy beaches spr...
Fun Days Out in Pickering
One of the most popular and attractive visits in between the city of York and the coastline of East Yorkshire is the market town of Pickering. Positioned on the edge of t...
Fun Days Out in Easingwold
Easingwold is a small and quiet market town 13 miles outside of York, on the way to the North Yorks Moors, that is rarely celebrated beyond its own 5000 inhabitants. But ...
Fun Days Out in Malton
Where would you think the food capital of Yorkshire to be? Leeds, with its metropolitan, cosmopolitan array of restaurants? Or York, with its traditional home-cooked char...
Fun Days Out in York and Surrounding
All around the city of York we are blessed with an array of amazing places to visit. From countryside to seaside, market towns to moors, there is a marvellous mixture rig...
Make the Most of York’s Comic Con Weekend
As comic lovers visit the city from near and far to take in the diverse delights of the day - this time themed ‘Hunters, German Commanders and Creatures’ and includin...
Say I Do: How to Make the Most of York’s Wedding Fayre Weekends
Many couples take this day beyond the event and into the city. York has an essence which lends itself to romance, and as such there are a variety of places that are apt t...
Rounding off 2019: The Best of Independent Life York
As one year ends and another begins, it is often a time for reflection. To gaze back at seasons past, at achievements, at regrets, and at where it has brought us in the p...
The Best of York’s Art and Crafts
York is a city with a quietly rising collection of creative people, places, activities and enterprises. Perhaps lesser known nationally as a creative hub than other north...
Considered Christmas Gift Ideas in Leeds and York
And just like that, Christmas is here. But before that C word sends you into a present-related panic, we should start off by saying that we believe this year we should al...
York Interior Designers: Trends for Winter
Words: Caitlin Hazell Our homes in the winter months should of course be cosy, snug, and a place to welcome family and friends; but just like fashion, interior and décor...
Slowing Down Fast Fashion: Eco-Friendly Shops in York
Eco consciousness is on the rise; Britain has declared a climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has sailed her way across the Atlantic, and Extinction Rebellion are commandeer...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road
Just south of the centre of York, you’ll find Bishopthorpe Road, and Scarcroft Road; two streets which have become infamous for their thriving independent businesses, u...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Stonegate, Blake Street, Lendal and St. Helen’s Square
After five years of growing success on Fossgate, the pair decided to open a second branch on Lendal, in the hopes that their new coffee shop will do for Lendal what the o...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Castlegate, Coppergate, Clifford Street and Tower Street
Three Tuns
Owner of Three Tuns Pub, Jason Hawkins, is one of a rare breed of landlords who essentially grew up in the industry and made an increasingly successful care...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Gillygate and Bootham
In 2016, a handful of traders from the two streets and other like-minded locals came together to form their very own business association which was aptly named, the Fifth...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Micklegate
Just over the bridge from the train station lies Micklegate. A street which over the years has transformed from what was one of York’s most popular stag and hen do hots...
