CNG to sponsor the May Day Cathedral Beer Festival

Ripon Beer Festival

News that CNG Ltd of Harrogate are sponsoring the annual Ripon Cathedral Beer Festival is once again taking place on May Day, Monday 4th May in the grounds of Ripon Cathedral. The event has been kindly sponsored again by commercial gas supplier CNG Ltd, based in Harrogate the company are committed to supporting the local community and is delighted to be the main sponsor of this year’s Beer Festival.
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Ripon Cathedral becomes dementia friendly

Canon Paul Greenwell, Canon Precentor for Ripon Cathedral

Guides, volunteers, clergy, and employees at Ripon Cathedral who meet and greet hundreds of visitors every week have undergone specialist training to help them cope with the growing number of older people living with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.

Sheena Van Parys, owner of local at home care company Home Instead Senior Care, and her colleague, Pet Fowler-Watts, MBE, Community Liaison, hosted three ‘Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias Community Education and Awareness’ sessions at Ripon Cathedral so that their staff would be equipped with knowledge and helpful techniques to assist and support those visitors with dementia and their families who visit.

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