August 2025: Summer Catch-Up

  And just like that we’re moving into the final third of the year! Welcome to our summer round up, and what an incredible summer it has been so far – in fact, what an incredible year it has been so far. Embarking on 21 for 21 back in January was a pretty nervy time. Can we deliver on 21…

Welcome to 2025!

Hello and welcome to 2025, a year that holds so much promise for A Shining Light. Firstly, I’d like to start with an apology. I really wish we could do these updates more frequently, but it’s just so time consuming. When I started the charity little over two years ago, I had no idea what would happen. It’s a tremendous…

Welcome to 2024!

It seems strange to be doing a new year’s post in February, but here we are, and thanking you for coming back to join us! We’re sorry it’s taken so long to reach out again, as you can imagine time is precious when we’ve all got full-time jobs, but lots of hard work has been going on behind the scenes…

Summer Sign-off

I feel like we start a lot of these posts with, ‘There’s so much to catch up on…’ But it’s true! We’re on the verge of taking a much-needed break for a few weeks, but we’ve had such a wonderful summer so far. After a successful night at Howden Minster for the Community Coronation Concert we’d really began to feel…

May Update – Charity of the Year!

It has been an extremely busy few months for us and there’s so much for you to catch up on! We must start somewhere though, so were better than our recent triumph at the Goole & Howdenshire Business Awards 2023. We still can’t quite believe that we actually picked up the Charity of the Year award last month. It’s crazy!…

February Update

Wow. What a hectic six months it has been. It feels strange to be writing an update of this size after a relatively small amount of time, but we honestly can’t believe just how much we’ve achieved since our original launch back in July, 2022. As I write this post we’ve raised just over £24,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust. Let…