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The Christmas season is a great a time to give something back and do something for others. It is the season of goodwill after all! We’ve pulled together some opportunities to volunteer in York and make a difference this festive season.

World Aids day is about providing education and information about HIV, providing people with knowledge about how HIV is transmitted, how to prevent it, reducing the stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV, and showing the reality of what it is like to live with HIV.

A trio of Jane Tomlinson’s Run For All races, including York 10k, are teaming up to offer a special rate of £20.12 to those signing up before the end of the year.

It has been reported that Newcastle City Council are donating the wage savings it is making from today’s strike action to supporting employment charities in the city. We ask if York should follow suit.

Thirteen York based charities have missed out on being awarded a £6,000 prize as the NatWest CommunityForce winners were announced this week.

So we want to know how your moustache is going… but we don’t just want to hear about it… we really want to see those moustaches!

It is hoped this strategy will provide a marked improvement in the quality of life for the growing number of those diagnosed with Dementia.

Staff at the York branch of Cath Kidston on Stonegate have been busy creating a one-off quilt that is to be raffled off to raise money for Safe And Sound Homes (SASH).

The UK’s social enterprise sector has been steadily growing as a new generation of businesses and entrepreneurs driven by the need to build social capital, inspire change and fight social problems.

Following from the United Nation’s International Year of Tolerance in 1995, the UN invited the member states to annually observe the International Day of Tolerance on the 16th of November.

There will now begin a six week period of consultation with relatives and staff at the residential care homes that will be involved.

With Halloween festivities and Bonfire night just around the corner, the one thing that probably won’t be on your mind…

Viva Las Vegas is coming to York to support the RSPCA York Animal Home and SNAPPY. On Saturday 5th November B&G Discos, in conjunction with the Hilton Hotel York, are hosting a ‘Vegas at Hilton’ evening to raise funds for the two local charities.

The idea is simple: on 1st November you register at Movember.com clean shaven and you then have the rest of the month to grow, groom, twirl and refine you hairy little friend.

Imagine living in a semi-detached stonewalled 1930’s property in York with a family of four, how much do you then envisage spending on your annual gas and electricity bills?

David Hickman, a University of York academic and former award winning producer has directed, photographed and produced three episodes of a new eight-part documentary on modern slavery.