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Updating the Modern Staff Handbook: A Forward Thinking Guide for SMEs
In today’s fast-paced business world, a staff handbook should be more than a list of rules; it’s a living guide that communicates how your business operates, sets expectations, and reflects company culture. For SMEs, it’s about making it practical, accessible, and...
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Updating the Modern Staff Handbook: A Forward Thinking Guide for SMEs
In today’s fast-paced business world, a staff handbook should be more than a list of rules; it’s a living guide that communicates how your business operates, sets expectations, and reflects company culture. For SMEs, it’s about making it practical, accessible, and...
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NMITE named as Herefordshire’s first ever Knowledge Base in UK’s prestigious Knowledge Transfer Partnerships programme
NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) is proud to announce that it has been officially accepted as a Knowledge Base in the UK Government’s prestigious Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme. This milestone marks an important...
The Development Manager – Worcestershire’s Leading Tech and Digital Apprenticeship Provider
TDM, based in Worcestershire, provides tech and digital Apprenticeships across England. At TDM, we offer Apprenticeship programmes from Level 3 to Degree levels and run tailored 12-week Skills Bootcamp programmes. Apprenticeship funding is accessible to individuals at...
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Wyevale Nurseries puts up Seven Entries for the HTA National Plant Show’s New Plant Awards
WYEVALE Nurseries has entered seven varieties for the New Plant Awards at the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) National Plant Show at NAEC Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on June 19 and 20 (2024). They include two new Heucheras ‘Pinky Panky’ and ‘Snowy Panky’,...
Sutcliffe & Co Secures Coveted Award for Second Consecutive Year
With a long history of service excellence in Worcester, Sutcliffe & Co Insurance Brokers proudly announces their triumph as the ‘Best Insurance Broker in Worcester’ for the second consecutive year at the Quality Business Awards. This new accolade further...
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Securing the ‘New Normal’
When Covid-19 hit, businesses desperately sort news ways to maintain some sense of continuity, which for a large majority, saw entire business functions move online for the first time ever. The demand for remote access and technology was on a scale that had never been...
National Asparagus Day 2021 #ShopLocal
Friday 23 April is National Asparagus day! Worcestershire and the Vale of Evesham in particular are famous worldwide for Asparagus, and are celebrated each year at the Asparagus Festival in Evesham. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the British Asparagus Festival events...
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Herefordshire software experts to deliver charity training
A Herefordshire-based software company is doing its bit to help combat HIV infection rates among infants in southern Africa. Software experts from Formus Professional Software have stepped in to assist an American charity, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS...
Local conference inspires female entrepreneurs
More often than not, women entrepreneurs find themselves juggling both their businesses and their personal commitments; it can be an isolating and lonely experience. The Treasury commissioned Alison Rose to lead an independent review of female entrepreneurship. The...
Retraining essential as 1 in 5 firms consider redundancies post-furlough
The BCC has called for government to extend skills training as new research showed nearly 1 in 5 companies are considering staff redundancies as the next phase of furlough tapering begins. With older workers much more likely to still be on furlough, there is...
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Retraining essential as 1 in 5 firms consider redundancies post-furlough
The BCC has called for government to extend skills training as new research showed nearly 1 in 5 companies are considering staff redundancies as the next phase of furlough tapering begins. With older workers much more likely to still be on furlough, there is...
Worcestershire News
Royal visit for Foster and Freeman
foster+freeman, forensic science equipment manufacturer, was last Friday delighted to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to its Evesham, Worcestershire, headquarters. foster+freeman was selected for the Royal visit, primarily because of its role as a...
Grants and support available to help local businesses go green
Are you a local business looking to go greener? Or maybe you are concerned about rising electricity bills. The County Council’s clean growth team are on hand to help. A number of clean growth grants are still available to help to support local businesses to become...
Herefordshire News
Financial support for people told to self-isolate
The government has announced financial support for workers asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace. A £500 payment may be paid if you test positive for Coronavirus and have to self-isolate, or if you have had close contact with someone who has tested positive and...
Cyber Fringe Festival: 23 to 27 November 2020
This informative and engaging five-day festival, brought to you by the University of Wolverhampton and Cyber Quarter Ltd based in Hereford will give delegates, hosts and speakers a unique opportunity to engage with world class thought leaders and cyber security...
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JUNE CHARITY EVENT WILL BRING HAWAIIAN COLOUR TO ‘LEOMINSTER-by-the-SEA’.
Ledbury-based high tech coatings application company Cleftbridge Limited is sponsoring the third annual Colour Run around Leominster, with a theme for 2024 of ‘Hawaiian Beach’. The event is organised by ECHO, an independent Herefordshire-based charity that organizes...
Discover Parks Herefordshire Supports Holiday Home Owner Raising Funds for Cancer Research
Trudy Evans from Stourbridge has been battling the brutal disease herself since 2019 when she received intensive treatment for breast cancer. In 2021 she was given the all clear. Last year it reared its ugly head again and she faced the devastating news it had spread...
New Future of Farming Line-up Announced
Royal Three Counties Show, 14th-16th June 2024 Water quality, soil health, biodiversity, succession planning, the latest developments in agri-tech and the positive role cattle can play in improving the environment are some of the big conversations due to take place...
Worcester Graduate Features in National Campaign
A graduate of the University of Worcester has been featured in a national campaign highlighting successful people who were the first in their family to go to university. Kiran Sahota is an award-winning social historian and founder of the community interest company,...
Chair’s Report April 2024
There’s lots happening at the Chamber as we move, hopefully, towards Spring and Summer. Numerous events for all levels of membership, dinners, networking events and the Awards Gala in June. There will also be news regarding a re-vamped and enlarged Expo for October....
Stanbrook Abbey Hotel wins Business Events Venue of the Year
Stanbrook Abbey, honoured as the “Business Events Venue of the Year” at the Worcestershire Tourism Awards, epitomises excellence in hosting corporate gatherings. Combining historic grandeur with modern amenities, Stanbrook Abbey provides an unmatched...
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