Author Archives: The Ridings Centre

Dementia Awareness Week – how much do you know?

Vacant units are an issue many highstreets and shopping centres are having to face in these difficult economic times. The ultimate aim is to get the units let as quickly as possible however when this isn’t an option here at The Ridings we either dress them to make them look as attractive as possible or bring life to [...]

Winning Style

When Claire Smith entered the Ridings Mother’s Day competition on March 17th at the Style Saturday event, she didn’t think she had a chance of winning the top prize of a personal styling session with a professional stylist and £100 to spend on a new outfit! But the lucky mum from Wakefield was the randomly [...]

Rocking with the Tots!

Fifi …and the Flowertots Fifi… Forget-me-not…………. We still can’t get the Fifi theme tune out of my head following Saturday’s great event and with so many youngsters coming along to see their favourite Flowertot I’m sure they’ll still be singing the tune too! It was a lovely event for the whole family as the children [...]

Easter Egg-citement

With Easter just around the corner, it’s a great opportunity to plan some family time activities and here in The Ridings we like nothing more than some good fun and and chocolate treats! On Saturday 7th April we’ll have giant bouncing bunnies in the centre handing out FREE chocolate goodies and they’ll be bunny mask making workshops taking place between [...]

Pedal Power

Where we can, and when our budgets allow, we like to get involved with initatives which will have a positive impact in our local area. So we are really pleased to announce that we have joined forces (pardon the pun!) with the Wakefield Central Neighbourhood Policing Team to add some more pedal power in the [...]