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Official page of the 2026/27 York Civic Party celebrating the people they met.

04/10/2026

What a great time we had at the York Chinese Association at The University Of York, York, England learning about their upcoming year.

We are very lucky in York to have so many international students that bring so many talents and culture traits to enrich the city!

01/10/2026

One of the privileges of being Lord Mayor is that for our term of office we also take on the role of President of the Gild of Freemen of York.

This week saw the Freedom Court of the Gild, meet at the Mansion House to admit York’s newest Freemen, following a tradition that began in 1217.
In those days there were several ways of becoming a Freeman of York but now most of those avenues have closed and practically only those who have a Freeman in their ancestral line can be admitted.

We hope our newest Freemen will join other members of the Gild who work voluntarily, quietly and hard to help keep York the wonderful city it is.

30/09/2026

What is not to love about this event! Fantastic people and delicious cakes!

27/09/2026

What a fantastic way to start the day!

23/09/2026

Our Assize of Ale Supper event is now fully booked, we look forward to welcoming those booked also on the trail at 2pm Saturday at York Mansion House for the proclamation.

11/09/2026

Last Saturday we had a wonderful musical theatre afternoon, hosted by the talented Tim and Barbara Kent and with an amazing cast.

We joined in the sing-alongs to some of our favourite songs as we were taken on a whirlwind musical tour covering the decades while raising over £3,000 for the York branch of Parkinson’s UK and Alzheimer’s Research.

Thank you everyone who made this such a memorable afternoon

01/09/2026

We joined with hundreds of pilgrims who gathered in York from across the country and further afield to honour the memory of St Margaret Clitherow and to celebrate her legacy. To see so many people coming together was an amazing tribute to the Pearl of York and a wonderful spectacle as we travelled through the streets of York from the Bar Convent to the York Oratory. Her story really is a huge part of York’s history and her legacy lives on.

23/08/2026

We had a great Saturday afternoon last week at York Sports Village for the York Kids Triathlon.

Over 900 young people aged between 5 and 16 gathered to take part in the challenging swim, cycle and run event with different distances.

We watched them sprint across the finishing line and ring the winners bell before presenting them with their treasured medals, certificates and a very welcome cooling jelly!

Thanks to UK Triathlon for organising and of course the amazing triathletes who took part.

22/08/2026

An absolute joy to welcome 25 brand new citizens from 18 different countries to the very moving citizenship ceremony.
They had passed many tests to get to this point including the Citizenship Test which includes questions such as: how many members does the Northern Ireland Assembly have? Which 2 languages were the basis of modern English ? And what relation was Katherine Howard to Anne Boleyn? Some of the questions are really tricky!

It was a lovely ceremony made even more special because The Lord Mayor’s granddaughters, Cora and Agnes attended and Cora even helped out with the photos!

The inspirational people who received their citizenship certificates came from all walks of life and included GPs, nurses, support workers and so many more.

In case you were wondering it’s 90 members, Norman-French and Anglo Saxon and finally they were cousins!

15/08/2026

We had a lovely time looking at the wonderful York River Arts. Such a lot of amazing talent on show and the creativity was incredible.

Something for everyone and the artists were keen to share their knowledge and spark out creative leanings.

Fabulous paintings of York, Jewellery created from silver spoons, rings formed from old copper pipes, bags woven from old tea shirts, neon posters, beautiful ceramics, there was even a bad advice gum machine!

York rescue boat were there highlighting the importance of river safety.
Thanks to Caroline Turner for her amazing organisational skills and showing us around.

Address

York Mansion House
York
YO19QL

Website

https://www.york.gov.uk/lord-mayor/yorks-civic-party

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