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TSR’s James Clarke Shortlisted for Global Smart Home Award
Redditch-based smart home specialist TSR Group is proud to announce that team member James Clarke has been named a finalist in the Best Newcomer category at the CEDIA Smart Home Awards 2025, an internationally recognised celebration of excellence in smart home design....
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TSR’s James Clarke Shortlisted for Global Smart Home Award
Redditch-based smart home specialist TSR Group is proud to announce that team member James Clarke has been named a finalist in the Best Newcomer category at the CEDIA Smart Home Awards 2025, an internationally recognised celebration of excellence in smart home design....
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University Academic Seeks Public’s Stories of Bystander Intervention
Have you ever chosen to intervene in a difficult situation? A University of Worcester academic has launched a new project that seeks to collect people’s stories of bystander intervention. Whether they were the person that intervened to help or the one who benefited...
Severn Valley Railway names 45699 ‘Galatea’ as Gala guest loco
The Severn Valley Railway has confirmed that LMS Jubilee 45699 ‘Galatea’, currently running as 45627 ‘Sierra Leone’, is the final member of its trio of guest locomotives at the Spring Steam Gala, between Friday 18 and Monday 21 April. ‘We’re delighted to welcome...
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Herefordshire & Worcestershire Help to Grow Management Course
The Help to Grow: Management Course is a government funded, leadership course aimed at Senior Managers in small and medium sized businesses. The course is designed in collaboration with industry experts, experienced entrepreneurs, and Business Schools. The Help to...
Experts Offer Advice on What Makes a GCA Ruxley Rose Plant Area Winner
A LEADING UK commercial grower that sponsored the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Ruxley Rose Award – presented at the body’ annual conference last week – has revealed what makes a winning plant area (February 2024). The Wyevale Nurseries’ sponsored Best Overall...
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Roadmap to lifting lockdown restrictions
On Monday 22 February Boris Johnson addressed the commons to announce the planned roadmap to easing lockdown restrictions. The Prime Minister stressed that each stage of a new 4-stage plan will be driven by “data not dates”. The PM says there will be...
European Commission data adequacy ruling
Today, the European Commission launched the process towards the adoption of two adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the United Kingdom, one under the General Data Protection Regulation and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. The publication...
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Tesco awards local charity with grant
The Grace Kelly Ladybird Trust is thrilled to announce that the charity has been awarded a fantastic £4,000 from the Tesco, Bags of Help, Community Grant Scheme in Worcester. The announcement comes after an in-store vote selected The Grace Kelly Ladybird Trust as the...
Rural media secures funding to help local young people gain digital skills
A charity based in Hereford which hopes to help young people within the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community to develop their digital skills, has secured funding and a coveted position on the Carnegie UK Trust’s #NotWithoutMe Accelerator programme to develop a...
UK economy feels effect of lockdown restrictions but cause for optimism after March growth
The Office for National Statistics have released the latest GDP figures for the first quarter of 2021. With the first part of the year spent in lockdown together with navigating new trading terms with the EU, businesses have been presented with a difficult start to...
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UK economy feels effect of lockdown restrictions but cause for optimism after March growth
The Office for National Statistics have released the latest GDP figures for the first quarter of 2021. With the first part of the year spent in lockdown together with navigating new trading terms with the EU, businesses have been presented with a difficult start to...
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Pitmaston Primary School achieves Level 1 accreditation
Pitmaston Primary School have become the latest organisation to achieve Level 1 in the Worcestershire Works Well accreditation. The free accreditation scheme is designed to support businesses to improve health and wellbeing of their employees which has shown to...
Domestic Support Fund for businesses hosting events
The new Domestic Support Fund is designed to offer financial support to kick start the return of business events and to showcase that the UK is ready to meet again and has adapted to new ways of meeting in a COVID-19 secure environment.
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Flexpo Business Digital Summit
Coming up on 16 September, the 2020 Flexpo Business Digital Summit has set out to understand where we are on our flexible working journey.
The Coronavirus outbreak has forced a huge change in how people manage their home lives and their business activity. This summit will explore the challenges and solutions and asks what do we want the future of work to look like?
‘A Good Place to Start’ campaign update – new ‘starting out’ support
‘A Good Place to Start’ aims to help jobseekers back into work, and put those businesses needing to recruit in touch with them. At the centre of the campaign are two websites, jobhelp which provides support to jobseekers, and employerhelp which provides links to business support and information, as well as help for those who need to recruit.
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Business Awards Entries Open Soon!
The Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce Business Awards are back Thursday 13th June 2024, at University Arena, Worcester. Sponsored by Herefordshire Council and Worcestershire Council, the Awards will welcome over 700 guests from businesses across...
BCC Quarterly Economic Survey: Business Confidence Boost Fails To Revive Investment
Business confidence improves in Q4, with 56% of UK businesses expecting an increase in turnover in the next twelve months. Despite this boost, most firms continue to report no improvement to sales, cash flow or investment. Downward trend in price growth...
Make Your New Year’s Resolution to Support Lifeline Care at Acorns Children’s Hospice
‘Do something amazing and help us provide vital care for local children with life limiting conditions’ – that’s the New Year’s resolution the public are being asked to make for Acorns Children’s Hospice in 2024. There are lots of ways people can make a...
HCR Partner with CyNam to Drive Collaboration Across Cyber Clusters in the UK
Top 60 UK law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys (HCR Law) have announced a partnership with CyNam (Cyber Cheltenham) for 2024, building on their longstanding relationship and shared values around collaboration. The two organisations will facilitate a number of...
Wyre Forest IT Firm Donates to Local Foodbank
Local IT firm Minster Micro has donated food and toiletries to Kidderminster Foodbank as the need grows for emergency supplies this Christmas. The staff at the IT firm, which is based on Worcester Road, has come together to collect food and toiletry parcels for the...
Herefordshire Skills Show 2024
Herefordshire Skills Show aims to inspire the next generation. Herefordshire Council is inviting local employers, education and training providers and entrepreneurs to take part in a skills and training expo aimed at young people on Thursday 8 February 2024 at...
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