11th October, 2011
The Duke of York visits North Yorkshire
The Duke of York visited North Yorkshire on 11th October, 2011. The programme was curtailed by bad weather but His Royal Highness managed to attend The Duke of York Community Initiative Awards held at the Harrogate Army Foundation College, and visited The Yorkshire Regiment, of which he is the Colonel in Chief.
His Royal Highness founded The Duke of York Community Initiative in 1997 to encourage the development of community spirit, and local individual leadership across Yorkshire. The initiative recognises projects through an award scheme, which involves scrutiny by assessors, and is recognition of excellence. The principal aim of the awards is to foster and increase community spirit throughout the four Yorkshire ridings.
Later, The Duke of York visited the 4th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment at Worsley Barracks for a briefing on the recent movements and activities of the Battalion. Afterwards HRH was able to meet some of the families of the 50 members of this TA Battalion currently deployed in Afghanistan.