TOP restaurants across North Yorkshire are supporting a new initiative to raise funds for a charity that supports children and young adults.

Ryedale Special Families (RSF) has launched a Christmas and New Year fundraising draw that gives the lucky winner a meal for two every month in 2025 in 12 of the region’s most popular eateries.

Entitled ‘Win a Year of Monthly Culinary Adventures’, the prize is worth over £1,000 and features The Talbot, Malton, Dewars, Kirby Misperton, The Abbey Inn, Byland, The Fat Badger, York, The Pheasant, Harome, Pignut, Helmsley, Saltmoore, Whitby, The White Swan, Pickering, The Star Inn, Harome, The Farrier, Cayton, The Tiger Inn, Coneythorpe and Sneaton Castle in Whitby.

In addition, there are four runner-up prizes including handmade chocolates from Birdgate Chocolatiers, a bouquet of flowers from Dales Florists, a Groovy Moo Gelato voucher and a bottle of champagne.

The draw will be made by Pickering Town Mayor Emma Daplyn on Friday, January 10 at the White Swan.

RSF, which is currently based in Old Malton, provides support to 400 families in North Yorkshire.

The charity is moving to a new home in Pickering that will be fully accessible and will include specially designed facilities and sensory spaces for disabled young people.

The new building will run a wide variety of activities including group sessions and individual support - as well as activities for disabled young adults in the charity’s Ryedale Supported Futures programme.

Featuring sensory spaces and welcoming areas for parents and carers to meet, the new building will be fully accessible, with ample car parking space, and will include an outdoor area to socialise in.

Andrew Pern, owner of The Star Inn at Harome, commented: ‘I’m delighted to support the charity, whose incredible work in the area offers invaluable support to hundreds of families. I hope the draw captures people’s imagination and raises thousands of pounds towards their new building project in Pickering.”

Rob Davies, Funding Coordinator of Ryedale Special Families, said: “It’s a fantastic prize and wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the 12 restaurants for which we’d like to say a huge thank you. I’d also like to thank Carrie Brackstone of Pickering CIC for suggesting the idea, and once again the enthusiasm of the people of Pickering and Malton for getting behind the draw.”

Tickets can be purchased at various locations including The White Swan, Dales Florists or The Memorial Hall in Pickering, as well as The Talbot Hotel and Dales Florists in Malton.

Alternatively, tickets are available via the charity’s website www.ryedalespecialfamilies.org.uk