Your Harrogate Podcast - Episode 381

Your Harrogate Podcast

Friday, 21 March 2025 - 21 minutes

In this episode of the Your Harrogate Podcast, Ripon celebrates, Resurrected Bites get set to mark a major milestone and presenter Pete Egerton speaks to Harrogate Town striker Josh March.Ripon has been named among the best places to live in the North and North East by The Sunday Times.The news outlet's annual guide of the UK’s best places to live is based on factors including schools, transport, broadband speeds, culture, green spaces and the health of the high street.It includes 72 locations across the country, with Ilkley taking top spot for the North and North East, whilst Saffron Walden in Essex was named the overall winner.Ripon was one of seven locations in the region that received an honourable mention; we hear from several key figures within the city and Tim Palmer, chief judge for the Best Places To Live guide.Meanwhile, a community organisation in Harrogate that works to reduce food poverty and waste is gearing up to celebrate a major milestone. Resurrected Bites, which aims to ‘fill bellies not bins’, has served almost 20,000 weekly food shops to low-income families since it started in 2021.Its community grocery stores in Harrogate and Knaresborough offer an affordable way for people to access good quality, nutritious food.And the sites, which are based in New Park Primary Academy in Harrogate and Gracious Street Methodist Church in Knaresborough, are opening their doors to welcome new members on 27th March. Pete speaks to grocery manager, David James.Finally in this episode, as Harrogate Town get set to travel to Chesterfield this weekend (22nd March), Town striker Josh March tells Pete that the squad are all together and ready to fight for their football league status...

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