Executive director of the Rowntree Society Nick Smith says the city would be "a very different place without that legacy".

A report highlighted a sharp rise in mental health problems across the United Kingdom, with growing pressure on NHS services and an increasing disability benefits bill.

Supreme among its social reformers was its second owner, Joseph Rowntree, whose passing 100 years ago on February 24 was such a loss to the nation that the Daily Mirror devoted its front page to ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 900,000 children live in a household where someone receives sickness benefits though ...

York's city walls have been lit up in blue and orange in tribute to philanthropist Joseph Rowntree on the 100th anniversary of his death.

Many of the measures already implemented to reduce government spending have actually pushed people further away from the ...

Labour has already vowed to cut £3bn over the next three years and is expected to announce billions more in savings from PIP.

The hills are alive once more with The Sound of Music, as NETheatre York is set to present the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre in York from April 29 to May 3.

Graham Mitchell, who has been involved since day one, didn’t know he was going to be honoured and admitted he was “a little ...