Carolynn Peace, solicitor and director at Harrogate-based law firm Berwins, has taken on a new voluntary role which will see her closely involved with the UK’s largest children’s music charity.

Carolynn has been appointed a board member of North Yorkshire Youth Music Action Zone, which seeks to promote and support music-making opportunities and provide advice to children up to the age of 18 with least access.

Mrs Peace, who in August stepped down after seven years as a board member of Harrogate Theatre, said she was “thrilled” at the opportunity to play a part in helping young people in the region access the benefits of becoming involved in music making.

“Youth Music helps young people to develop their potential and develop an appreciation of music from an early age,” she said.


TAM Hume has “come home”. After six months working in the York office of property letting agency Stephensons, she has returned to the Easingwold office where she has had nearly ten years letting and estate agency experience. There Tam will assist the director of lettings Chris Hill.

The firm also has offices in Thirsk, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Selby.


ONE of North Yorkshire’s best-known commercial property lawyers has joined Harrogate-based solicitors, Barber Titleys.

Helen Mellors who was previously with the York office of Dickinson Dees, one of the north’s biggest law firms, has joined Barber Titleys as a consultant. She will advise individuals, companies and charities on their commercial property and development needs, as well as specialising in transfers to private pension schemes.

After starting her legal career at Grays Solicitors, York, where she became a partner, Helen, who lives in York, later joined Philip Ashworth & Co in the city, providing commercial property support for major deals, which continued when the practice merged with Dickinson Dees two years ago.


A NEW regional director for integrated financial solutions (iFS) – business and private banking centres –has been appointed by Yorkshire Bank for its key heartlands in Yorkshire and the north-east.

He is Richard Norrington, 44, who will oversee the six financial solutions centres in Yorkshire and two in the north-east, including the York-based North Yorkshire centre.

Mr Norrington, who joined Yorkshire Bank’s sister, Clydesdale Bank, in 2005 as managing partner of Hertford Financial Solutions Centre and became East Region regional director in 2008, succeeds Kath Myers – a well-known figure in the Yorkshire and north-east business community.

Kath has been promoted to divisional director for iFS Payment Solutions, a new post encompassing international trade finance, international payments, internet banking and merchant acquiring.