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The Festival of Food, Drink & Rhubarb makes a welcome return to Wakefield on Friday 22nd until Sunday 24th February and there is something for all the family to enjoy! Offering plenty of foodie-themed fun and activities.
Wakefield is part of Yorkshire’s famed and mysterious Rhubarb Triangle, known throughout the country for producing the finest forced rhubarb. Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb has received protected name status alongside other famous delicacies such as Champagne and Parma Ham!
The city centre will be home to the large festival market featuring many products with a rhubarb twist including artisan breads, preserves and cheeses to scrumptious cakes, delectable gins, wines and much more!
Alongside the festival market you can find a fine array of hot street food to enjoy – or pop into one of the cities many restaurants and local cafes where you will be sure to find plenty of rhubarb-themed goodies.
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What started off just a regular meet up with her father, Guy, every few weeks for a swim and now Jenny is already a few weeks in to the challenge of swimming 22 miles over a 12 week period.
The reason behind this decision is that every eight hours, someone in the UK is paralysed by a spinal cord injury, and no one is ever prepared for how it will change their life.
The money Jenny raises by taking part in the Aspire Channel Swim will help spinal injured people to live their lives independently.
This year, Aspire Channel Swimmers such as Jenny and Guy will fund dozens of Aspire Grants, which help fund wheelchairs, sports equipment and assistive technology. They will also help fund their essential Welfare Benefits Advice Service to ensure that people receive the benefits that they’re entitled to and their Independent Living Advisors so that newly injured patients have someone to speak to.
Aspire receives no government funding, so every penny raised is extremely important to them.
If you see Jenny at Sun Lane Leisure then make sure you give her a cheer!
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If you’re putting your house on the market, it’s time to think about the bigger picture, says a leading Yorkshire estate agent – and it could make a difference to how quickly your home sells Picking the best images will help to attract the best buyers, according to new
research from across the pond, which shows that homes with brilliant photos sell a third faster than those without. The study by the Centre for Realtor Development also found that the more photos, the better, as properties with just one picture spent an average of 70
days on the market while houses with 20 photos only stayed on for about a month.
We’re all aware that we are living in a visual economy – photo-sharing network
Instagram reached 1 billion monthly active users last year – and if you’reselling up, decent pictures will create a lasting first impression. “A good photographer really does make a difference when selling your home, which is why we include it in our fees and we’ve got experts on hand to help
get that perfect picture,” says Claire Kendall, director of Richard Kendall Estate Agent which has six offices in the Wakefield and Pontefract area.
“Eye-catching photos help to engage customers’ attention and make sure that when they’re scrolling through our website or other property portals, they stop and look at our properties due to the high quality of the images.” The family-run estate agency, which has been selling homes for 50 years, has its own in-house photography expert: Andrew Leeson, who also professionally edits all the imagery himself. “Our customers love and cherish their homes and if I can go that little bit further with my photography, it gives me great pride that I’ve made the property look as good as I possibly can do for our customers,” he explains.
“A customer asked me for the images to be sent to them after their property had been sold, just to have something to remember the property by, and I think this reflects greatly just how much love people have for their homes.” Andy, who has been with Richard Kendall Estate Agent for nearly five years, loves to capture properties in a unique way, sometimes visiting at sunset or even at night when external lighting can give a different perspective. “I do visit properties for night shots and dusk shots just to show the property off in a different light,” he adds.
“I absolutely love my job at Richard Kendall Estate Agent, I really enjoy showing people’s homes in the light that they deserve to be marketed in. The vendor’s home is their pride and joy and I believe the photography should always reflect this; no matter what property I go to, I always try to go above and beyond with my work.”
For a free market appraisal, call Richard Kendall Estate Agent today on 01924 291294
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