This year's Yorkshire Heritage Summit is scheduled to take place in Skipton.
The fourth annual event, hosted by the Yorkshire Association, will bring together organizations and people interested in Yorkshire heritage at Skipton Town Hall on Tuesday, May 13th.
We bring together local and local organizations interested in promoting or protecting every aspect of Yorkshire heritage to showcase their work and the importance of the region's unique culture, history and landscape.
There will also be an AA free public exhibition and an afternoon symposium with keynote speakers.
The summit, held in Hull last year, was the brainchild of author and environmental activist Colin Speakman, lives in Burley in Warfedale and is a co-creator of Dale Way Long Distance Park. The first event in 2022 has established itself as an important annual event for most voluntary heritage sectors, with thousands of people expected to visit the event in 2025.
Colin said: “Heritage is as much about our future as our past. The Yorkshire Association plans to bring heritage organizations, its volunteers and members of the public together, to celebrate and promote their work with one united voice.
Up to 40 organizations are expected to participate in the event, including some of the Yorkshire Association's “guardians of Yorkshire Heritage.”
A Yorkshire Association spokesman said: “We take Yorkshire heritage very seriously, so we created guardians of Yorkshire heritage, providing many voluntary organizations in the area, learning history dating back nearly 200 years, not large or small.
“Everything shares the Yorkshire Society's passion for what makes our region great: its history, culture, landscapes, nature, people.”
Includes Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Place Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Yorkshire Dialect Association, Peninenin Heritage, Friends of Dulles, and the North Craven Building Preservation Trust.
The organization will also organize Yorkshire Day on August 1, bringing together local mayors, mayors, staff and other high-ranking officials in “Full costumes and Regalia.” This year, Bradford and Ilkley will be co-hosting the Yorkshire Day Civic event.
If you are a heritage organization or interested in participating in the Heritage Summit at Skipton Town Hall in May, please email heritage@theyorkshiresociety.org
For those who wish to participate in the event as a visitor, find out more at https://theyorkshiresociety.org/event/2025-yorkshire-heritage.
