Arts&Culture The Piece Hall Trust to receive £442,700 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund * Among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund * This award will help The Piece Hall reopen The Piece Hall in Halifax has received a grant of £442,700 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture By The Editor • 3 min read
Arts&Culture 21 Conference is a hit, kick-starting the County’s tourism resurgence A hub of activity, Welcome to Yorkshire’s ‘Y21’ conference was a packed programme of high-profile speakers and tourism announcements, held from Tuesday 30th to Wednesday 31st March. With over 250,000 impressions and engagements on social media a large virtual audience tuned in to watch Yorkshire hosts, TV’s By The Editor • 4 min read
Business Bradford Garden Centre appoints York business for leadership and management training A Bradford Garden Centre has invested to equip its team with leadership and management skills in preparation of an ambitious growth phase. The People and Culture team at Tong Garden Centre have partnered with Alex Firmin from York business, Promethean Executive to create a bespoke training programme for its future By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Stafflex supports Kirklees College Breakfast Club initiative Huddersfield based recruitment agency Stafflex has continued its long running support for the Kirklees College Foundation Breakfast Club initiative for the fourth year running. The Foundation Breakfast Club was launched in 2016 by the College’s Foundation department as they found that a number of students were turning up to By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Heald celebrates double success at Hull Daily Mail business awards Heald Ltd, the Yorkshire based manufacturer of hostile vehicle mitigation systems which protect some of the world’s most high profile buildings from vehicle attacks, has been presented with two awards and named a finalist in a third category at the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards. The awards, which were By The Editor • 2 min read
Business “Exemplar” Piece Hall on track to ignite recovery The Piece Hall’s “exemplar” performance has been highlighted in its first annual review, detailing the period of its 2019-20 financial year, during which its income grew by more than a third and close to 80% of its funding came from its own commercial activities. The newly revealed figures showcase By The Editor • 4 min read
Charity The Broadway hails Thackley’s unsung hero 20 year old, former Immanuel College pupil Caitlin Brimacombe from Thackley has been crowned as The Broadway’s second ‘Local Hero’. Nominated by her mum, Bianca Brimacombe , Caitlin has been awarded for her tireless fundraising efforts in her local community plus events for Macmillan and a skydive for charity, Mind. By The Editor • 1 min read
Health Selby optician invests £45,000 into 3D eye scanning equipment Specsavers Selby has announced a £45,000 investment into an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) 3D scanner, which will allow the store’s optometrists to undertake Specsavers’ most advanced eye test for customers. The installation marks the 900th Specsavers store location in the UK and Ireland to have the technology and By The Editor • 2 min read
Business £2m investment to stay ahead of competition A £2 million investment in state-of-the-art new production equipment and software is enabling Yorkshire’s premier sheet metal fabricator to stay ahead of its competition. Helping to boost capacity, productivity and cost savings for Normanton based Yorkshire Laser and Fabrication (YLF) are a new 6kW Amada Ensis AJ laser cutter, By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Former hedge fund manager steps out of early retirement to train as a teacher Former hedge fund manager Dean Fletcher, 53 has stepped out of early retirement to train as a secondary maths teacher at Leeds Beckett University. Dean took early retirement from his job in the financial industry in 2007, and is now in the final stages of his initial teacher training year By The Editor • 4 min read
Business Tea on tap: housebuilder launches instant hot tea taps in new homes Tea-lovers purchasing a new property from Keepmoat Homes are in for a treat – in what is believed to be a world first, the housebuilder is installing instant hot tea taps in the kitchens of its new homes. With the UK being one of the largest tea consumers in the world, By The Editor • 1 min read
Food&Drink Collaboration of 3 businesses in launch of new Yorkshire-frozen food venture Three food businesses have joined forces to launch a new frozen ingredients supply venture, headquartered in Yorkshire, that will offer a huge amount of product knowledge and sourcing solutions to food manufacturers and providers. Known as REMS Frozen Foods, the business is the brain child of three food industry veterans: By The Editor • 2 min read
