Business Kirklees College makes commitment to support students and staff with their mental health Kirklees College has reaffirmed their commitment to staff and students by signing up to a brand new national mental health and wellbeing charter – created by the Association of Colleges in conjunction with mental health experts. The 11-point document includes commitments to: * Promoting equality of opportunity and challenging mental health stigma By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Covid-19 testing centre fired up in Gipton A new lateral flow Covid-19 testing centre funded by central government, will open at The Old Fire Station in Gipton next month. The centre will be based within meeting room spaces normally hired out to the community and other organisations and will provide tests on a daily basis to invited By The Editor • 2 min read
Business ‘Your Business Journey to Net Zero North’ event The NP11 group of northern local enterprise partnerships, working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is hosting an online event on the North’s journey to net zero. The event, which will take place on Friday 19th March 2021, will aim to support Northern SMEs on their By The Editor • 3 min read
Arts&Culture Interfaith celebrations - Diversity & Inclusion YABA in partnership with Leeds City Region and the Leeds Jewish Representative Council have organised a virtual event that promotes interfaith understanding by emphasizing factors common to all faiths. 7th April 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Hosted by former BBC presenter Tommy Sandhu There will be five presentations from Community By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Hat trick of branding briefs for ACD&B West Yorkshire-based ACD&B has secured a trio of new client wins. The independent creative agency has added beauty etailer Justmylook, Wakefield Trinity Community Foundation charity, and Pacc, a research-based selection and employee engagement consultants, to its roster of clients. Justmylook tasked ACD&B with rebranding its logo, By The Editor • 1 min read
Business New five year plan for Leeds Kirkgate Market Senior councillors in Leeds will be asked to back a five-year strategy to future-proof the much loved Leeds Kirkgate Market at an executive board meeting on Wednesday 17 March. The proposed Leeds Kirkgate Market Strategy 2021-2026 sets out how the market will manage the impact and recovery from the Covid-19 By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Three wins for Airship at UK Dev Awards 2021 Sheffield-based hospitality technology company Airship has won three awards at the UK Developer Awards 2021 - including the prestigious Dev Team of the Year accolade. The team has also won Project of the Year and Innovation of the Year awards in recognition of the speedy development and rollout of Trck. By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Bradford’s DMP Young Voices Voted ‘Top of the Pops’ The Welcome to Yorkshire and London North East Railway (LNER) competition to discover a new song to celebrate the county reveals Bradford’s DMP Young Voices, from the city’s Dixons Music Primary, the winners. Their Treasures of Yorkshire (lyrics below) song was inspired by the county’s diversity, history, By The Editor • 3 min read
Health More than half of Britons say UK businesses could do more to keep them safe from covid-19 More than half (53 per cent) of Britons believe UK businesses could be doing more to improve the hygiene of their premises and keep people safe from Covid-19, according to a new survey*. Commissioned by Knaresborough-based hygiene and pest control technology company Pelsis Group, the survey of 2,007 people By The Editor • 2 min read
Charity G3 delivers £6,827 donation to Availablecar's chosen charity G3 Vehicle Auctions co-founder Matt Dale and AvailableCar Supermarket CEO Michael Bell have joined forces to deliver a cheque to Martin House Children's Hospice for £6,827. For the second year running, G3 had pledged to make a donation for every AvailableCar vehicle sold through their auction lanes By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Bradford agency develops virtual and augmented reality solutions A Bradford-based creative agency has developed a portfolio of app-based virtual reality and augmented reality solutions serving a wide range of commercial uses. One19 Creative has designed and built apps which produce real-time 3D rendering of physical environments, mapped on vertical and 360º horizontal planes, and allows detailed 3D images By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Former McCann strategy director joins Jaywing Data-powered integrated agency, Jaywing, has added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Adrian Langford as its director of strategy and Planning for the agency’s retail offering. Formerly Associate strategy director at McCann Central, where he successfully led pitches for HSBC Retail and Comic Relief, Adrian comes By The Editor • 1 min read
