⏰Sunday 16th November 2025, 2:00 - 5:00pm. Times shown below are approximate.

📍 YHA Whitby Café Bar, YHA Whitby, Abbey House, East Cliff, Whitby YO22 4JT

🎟️ Free entry (voluntary donation to Whitby Defibrillator Project). No booking needed - it's first come, first served, with a maximum 40 visitors to each activity at any one time. Café and bar will be open as usual throughout.
🔗01947 602878 whitby@yha.org.uk
⭐ Free CPR & defibrillator training is taking place at this event

🎁 Join us for one or all of the activities below (times shown are approximate)

Liz Cooper has been a registered nutritional therapist since 2010, and is also a breathwork and meditation practitioner, a forest bathing guide and an accredited health coach. Join Liz as she uncovers the health benefits of cacao and why it’s more than just chocolate in this enriching and energising talk on behalf of The Dispensary.

Please see our Blog for further insight into this fascinating subject.

Join Emma Hatchard from The Pot & Pineapple in Whitby for an introduction to an astonishing range of craft, bean-to-bar chocolate flavours and textures.

Browse stalls, have a drink and meet business owners who provide all sorts of chocolate-related products and services in Whitby.

An opportunity for those gathered to take part in the drinking of ceremonial grade cacao, good for both the heart and the spirit, with Daniel O'Connor from Whitby Wellbeing. 

Browse stalls, have a drink and meet business owners who provide all sorts of chocolate-related products and services in Whitby.

For all ages: come and learn these life-saving skills as we demonstrate how to find a defibrillator and follow the instructions for using it. You'll also learn how to do chest compressions.

Experience this relaxing ceremony with Anna Tennant of Nurturing Rituals, a qualified sound practitioner, mindfulness teacher and sacred ceremony facilitator. She has studied Reiki, reflexology, foraging, herbal tea blending, plant folklore, Tibetan bowls, crystal singing bowls, bio sonic tuning forks and some other things along the way. Nurturing Rituals blends together various techniques to promote relaxation, balance, mindfulness and unlock creativity.

🎁 A fine opportunity to experience new chocolate flavours and textures under the guidance of master chocolatier Paul A Young.
⏰ Tuesday 18th November 2025 7:00pm
📍 The Pot & Pineapple, 5B Skinner Street, Whitby YO21 1SU

🎟️Contact the Pot & Pineapple for more details and to buy a ticket.
🔗 hello@thepotandpineapple.com    07786 987134 

With plenty of chocolates given out along the way! We are so pleased that the Esk Valley Railway is supporting Whitby Defibrillator Project, and this journey would make a lovely afternoon treat as part of a Festival shopping trail.

🎁 Forget-Me-Not Dementia Train, for those living with dementia and their carers. A journey through some of the prettiest scenery in the country, following the route of the River Esk for much of its length, passing through verdant farmland, rolling moors and picturesque villages.

⏰ Wednesday 19th November 12:00pm - 3:30pm

The Forget-Me-Not train starts from Whitby Railway Station at 12.00pm, arriving in Middlesbrough at 13.30. The return journey will be 14.04 from Middlesbrough Railway Station, arriving back in Whitby at 15.37. As it is also a normal service train, you can join us at any station along the line.

🔗 https://www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk/forget-me-not-train/

Esk Valley Community Rail Partnership: 07771886855 lisawilliams@yorkshire.net PO Box 506, Scarborough, YO11 9GA