Chain Lane Community Hub

04/06/2026

Happy Volunteer Week! 💛✨
Today we’re celebrating the incredible people who give their time, energy and heart to make a difference.

In this video, our volunteers share the qualities that volunteering brings into their lives — from confidence and connection to joy, purpose and belonging. 🌈🤝

To every volunteer: thank you for the kindness you spread and the impact you create. You make our community stronger, brighter and more compassionate every single day. 🌟💙

04/06/2026

A HUGE thank you to Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith and his team at York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for choosing us as your charity to fundraise for us at the The Great Knaresborough Bed Race

Good luck to you and your team! Thanks for the recognition 🥳

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03/06/2026

We have a Citizens Advice drop in here on 17th June, 1pm-3pm in our Wharfe room.

If you need advice or support around income, bills or legal advice please come along as this is free

03/06/2026

🌟 Happy Volunteers’ Week! 🌟

This week, we’re shining a huge spotlight on the incredible people who give their time, energy, and heart to make our community stronger 💛

To all our volunteers:
You inspire us. You lift others up. You make a real difference every single day. And together… we are better 🤝✨

We want to celebrate you — your wins, your proud moments, your stories.

Our video today shares some of our volunteers achievements in their own words!

02/06/2026

Every act of volunteering tells a story — often unseen, but always felt 💛

This week, we asked our volunteers to share their experiences in their own words, and their honesty reminds us why we truly are Better Together 🤝

Their impact reaches further than most people ever realise. It strengthens our community quietly, powerfully, and every single day 🌱

Today’s video is the first in our series celebrating the people who make that impact possible.

01/06/2026

🌟 Volunteers’ Week Appreciation Post 🌟

This , we want to give a huge THANK YOU 💚 to our amazing team of 35+ dedicated volunteers who make such a difference in our community every single day 🙌
Your time, compassion, and commitment help us deliver our core services and support those who need it most 🤝✨

👏 We’re so grateful for all of you, including:
🚐 Community Transport Drivers
📋 Trustees
📱 CLICK Volunteers
🌿 Ageing Well Volunteers
📚 Homework Club Volunteers
🤝 Friends of Chain Lane

Each of you plays a vital role in making our services possible — bringing people together, supporting wellbeing, and strengthening our community 💖

💬 From all of us: THANK YOU for everything you do. We simply couldn’t do it without you!

01/06/2026

Another exciting event ran by a fabulous community organisation! ⬇️

We are very excited to announce our much loved Party in the Castle line up. Unfortunately Glastonbury is not on this year so with lots of help from the team at FML we are very happy to say we are having live DJ’s and an all local team to put on our free community event.
Supported by David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire and funded by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority as part of the Vibrant and Sustainable High Streets Fund, organised by Knaresborough Chamber thank you Knaresborough Community Hub.

22/05/2026

The centre will be CLOSED on Monday 25th May for bank holiday.

The blood service will also be closed and will reopen on Tuesday 26th May 🚪

22/05/2026

We are absolutely delighted that the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith and his team from York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority has chosen to fund a raise for us on Bed Race 🏃

We are incredibly grateful for the support from David and his team and we can’t wait to see them take part in our towns biggest event of the year 🥳

✔️ we are a charity and rely heavily on grants and donations. If you can support us we would really appreciate any contribution!