Business Jobs created and recycling facilities expanded at IT recycling firm with £150k loans £150,000 loans have allowed a Wetherby-based IT recycling firm to expand its recycling facilities, hire new people and safeguard jobs. Zixtel Ltd, founded over 26 years ago, received the loans from Business Enterprise Fund and NPIF – BEF & FFE Microfinance, which is managed by BEF (Business Enterprise Fund) and By The Editor • 2 min read
Legal Matters Levi Solicitors adds to its growing Private Client Team The last few months have been exciting for Levi’s Solicitors Private Client Department, which has seen continued expansion across our offices. They welcome two lawyers Leanne Parkinson and Nafisa Hussain, who have recently joined Levi’s Private Client team. Leanne and Nafisa both advise clients on a wide variety By The Editor • 1 min read
Legal Matters National pensions law firm announces new senior associate in Leeds National specialist pensions law firm Arc Pensions Law is delighted to announce the promotion of Claire Goodby to senior associate. Claire joined Arc in November 2019 as an associate and is based in Leeds. Claire advises employers and trustees on all aspects of pensions law, including in relation to compliance By The Editor • 1 min read
Business HMi Elements graduate heads to Houston in “opportunity of a lifetime” A Yorkshire Graduate Trainee is moving to the US to live and work stateside for two months in what she says is the “opportunity of a lifetime”. Shannen de’Vries has just celebrated her first anniversary working at HMi Elements, a specialist technology company manufacturing hazardous area computers for the By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Headstar appoints strategic advisor and finance director Leeds-headquartered finance recruitment consultancy, Headstar, has announced the appointment of Rob Walker as strategic advisor to its board of directors as it prepares for further growth in 2023 - with the company on track to achieve a 50% increase in net fee income this year. With a career spanning over By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Founding member rejoins heat recovery business A founding member of the UK's leading Heat Recovery business has rejoined the company after a decade. DK Heat Recovery's marketing director, Nigel Upson, has rejoined the East Yorkshire-based business on his retirement from poultry processor Soanes Poultry, where he was MD. Nigel founded DK Heat By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Sunny Bank Mills exhibition centre celebrates 10th anniversary One of Yorkshire’s most prestigious annual exhibitions celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The acclaimed Ones To Watch exhibition at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford, is now open and runs until April 30th. It is focused on talented young artists with Yorkshire By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Morley and Outwood MP to open South Leeds Garden Centre Directors at a Yorkshire garden centre group have invited a local MP to open their new garden centre this month. Morley and Outwood MP Andrea Jenkyns will cut the ribbon to celebrate the official opening of Tingley Garden Centre, one of four owned by Yorkshire Garden Centres, at 12 pm By The Editor • 1 min read
Business York Handmade wins grant to build a greener future The award-winning York Handmade Brick Company has been awarded a grant to improve its energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. York Handmade, which is based at Alne, near Easingwold, has successfully applied to the “game-changing” Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) for £38,800 to pursue its sustainability agenda. Managing director By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Waterside Shipley celebrate 7th anniversary with new menu Waterside, the much loved canalside fine dining restaurant, mark their seventh year of successful business with the launch of a brand new lunch menu. Cast your mind back seven, and there weren’t many fine dining institutes in Shipley. In fact, widen the net to Shipley’s surrounding areas too By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink York Minster Refectory restaurant date announced to open The long-awaited full public opening of the new York Minster Refectory restaurant is set for Thursday, April 20th. The new accessible-to-all brasserie-style restaurant - at Minster Yard, Deangate, York - will have daytime and evening dining along with a mixture of smaller function, lounge and private dining options and a By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth Opening to the public on Saturday 10 June 2023, Trap of the Truth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) features more than 100 works, including 55 sculptures indoors, 19 sculptures in the landscape, paintings, photographs, videos and drawings created over 30 years of the artist’s career. Several works will be By The Editor • 5 min read
