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Dedicate a shooting star this Christmas to someone you’ll never forget
A unique, handcrafted ‘shooting star’ tribute to remember someone loved and missed is at the heart of an emotional campaign from Acorns Children’s Hospice this December – to ensure their memory still shines bright. Celebrate Your Star invites people to honour lost...
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Dedicate a shooting star this Christmas to someone you’ll never forget
A unique, handcrafted ‘shooting star’ tribute to remember someone loved and missed is at the heart of an emotional campaign from Acorns Children’s Hospice this December – to ensure their memory still shines bright. Celebrate Your Star invites people to honour lost...
Member News
KEMP Hospice Santa Fun Run Returns with a New Festive Home in Wolverley
The countdown to Christmas is on, and what better way to get into the festive spirit than by taking part in the jolliest jog of the year: the return of KEMP Hospice’s much-loved Santa Fun Run, launching this year from a brand-new location. On Sunday 7th December 2025,...
Unlocking Business Potential: The Power of the Right Technology Partner
In today’s fast-paced digital world, Surf Tech IT believes the right technology partner can be the difference between surviving and thriving. For business owners across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, embracing technology isn’t just about keeping up—it’s about...
Patron & Strategic News
University Festival Explores Range of Legal Topics
A University of Worcester law-themed festival will offer a wide range of expert talks open to the public. The University’s Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group is holding a free Rights and Justice Festival at The Hive, in Worcester, on July 8, designed to...
Graduate Offers Free Physiotherapy in Worcester Thanks to Community Funding
A University of Worcester graduate is giving back to the community by offering free physiotherapy sessions in Warndon, thanks to support from a local housing association. Oliver Nightingale, who graduated in Physiotherapy at the University of Worcester last year, now...
Chamber News
Chamber’s Quarterly Economic Survey now open
Our latest Quarterly Economic Survey is now open. Click here to take part. Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce represent the views of our members to national government, ensuring that the business case drives government policy. A great benefit of...
Introducing our brand new Cost Savings Hub!
Businesses, and their employees, across Herefordshire and Worcestershire have been and continue to face challenges with the costs of doing business and cost of living generally. These pressures combined, make business growth hard to maintain. You’ve requested and...
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insight6 – New Member Profile
Hi, I’m Simon Cadwallader, Customer Experience Director for insight6, covering Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. insight6 are the only customer experience specialists in the UK with 25 experts across the country who in turn partner with over...
insight6 – New Member Profile
Hi, I’m Simon Cadwallader, Customer Experience Director for insight6, covering Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. insight6 are the only customer experience specialists in the UK with 25 experts across the country who in turn partner with over...
Policy News
BCC Forecast: business investment set to be left behind in record economic recovery
UK business investment is expected to decline this year despite the prospect of record economic growth, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) economic forecast. The leading business group predicts UK GDP growth for 2021 of 7.1%, which, if realised, would...
A summary of today’s health and social care announcement
The NHS is getting £36bn over the next three years “to fund the biggest catch-up programme in the NHS’s history, tackling the Covid backlogs.” Prime Minister Rt Hon Boris Johnson, MP, said: “The pandemic has illuminated chronic problems in our health and...
Skills News
Three new Businesses pledge their support to improving Careers Education
Three new Cornerstone Employers have pledged their support to developing the county’s future workforce. The three companies, DRP Group, Platform Housing Group and QinetiQ are the latest organisations from across the county to join the growing list of businesses...
EU Settlement Scheme Reopens for Applications
Home Office support services and application routes associated with the EU Settlement Scheme have now all fully reopened in line with public health guidance. This includes the reopening of the postal route for submitting identity documents for applicants who are...
Charity News
Worcestershire Breast Unit welcomes metastatic Kate Nurse
The Worcestershire Breast Unit Haven charity, the only breast cancer charity in Worcestershire, has announced that it is funding a newly created nursing role caring specifically for patients in Worcestershire with stage 4 breast cancer. This nurse is being funded for...
Vamos Theatre Tours Sharing Joy, a colourful, interactive performance, to local care homes.
Worcester-based Vamos Theatre, the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, is to take its popular show, Sharing Joy, out on the road this June to visit care homes and other venues in Worcestershire. Sharing Joy is a vibrant and colourful interactive performance...
Bank Continues Along Monetary Policy Tightrope
Reacting to the latest interest rate decision by the Bank of England, David Bharier, Head of Research at the British Chambers of Commerce said: “Today’s widely expected interest rate hold highlights the tightrope the Bank is walking, in the face of mounting global...
BCC News
Bank Continues Along Monetary Policy Tightrope
Reacting to the latest interest rate decision by the Bank of England, David Bharier, Head of Research at the British Chambers of Commerce said: “Today’s widely expected interest rate hold highlights the tightrope the Bank is walking, in the face of mounting global...
Worcestershire News
Fundraising event at Fusion Salon!
Earlier in the week, our Fusion salon, based in Redditch, took part in the Style Against Cancer for Children with Cancer UK! The Fusion reception was decorated with Style Against Cancer balloons and banners and the Level 2 hair students were offering clients a wash,...
Worcester based Zebravise launches new HR features in its tool for small businesses
Zebravise are excited to announce that we have launched a new version of our online tool for small businesses, that offers a CRM, HR solution, cashflow manager, task management and marketing all in one simple to use tool. The new HR features include the ability to...
Herefordshire News
Labour shortage: Are you an age-positive employer?
There’s been a lot in the news recently about getting over-50s who have decided to finish work, back into employment to help address the UK’s labour shortage and boost the economy. It’s been reported that almost 300,000 fewer people are in employment than before the...
NMITE to host free Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger Event
NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) is hosting an event that aims to demystify the world of EV Chargers at its Skylon Campus between 9:30am and 12pm on February 14th. Attendees can ask questions to a panel of leading EV Charger companies who...
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‘Scots Guardsman’ to replace ‘Tornado’ at the SVR’s Railway 200: Trains through the Ages event
The Severn Valley Railway has confirmed that LMS 46115 ‘Scots Guardsman’ will appear at its Railway 200: Trains though the Ages event on 5 and 6 July, as a replacement for 60163 ‘Tornado’. Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster, the SVR’s managing director said: ‘As one door closes,...
15 Herefordshire businesses sign the Armed Forces Covenant at NMITE’s Military to Business event, supported by UK Government
Fifteen Herefordshire businesses signed the armed forces covenant today at NMITE’s sixth annual Military to Business Showcase. The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise by the nation ensuring that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces, and their families,...
UK Government Strategic Defence Review 2025 Briefing by British Chambers of Commerce – June 2025
The Strategic Defence Review, chaired by former Defence Secretary and NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson of Port Ellen alongside General Sir Richard Barrons and Dr Fiona Hill, was launched by the Prime Minister in Glasgow on 2 June. It sets out 62 recommendations...
Infrastructure Strategy Must Become Reality
Responding to the publication of the Government’s Infrastructure Strategy, Jane Gratton, Deputy Director of Public Policy, said: “A 10-year strategy for infrastructure will give businesses and supply chains much needed clarity and certainty to plan. Crucially it will...
Mounting Uncertainty Delays Further Rate Cut
Responding to the latest Bank of England interest rate decision, David Bharier, Head of Research at the British Chambers of Commerce said: “Yesterday’s CPI data confirmed that inflation remains stubbornly high, so today’s decision by the Bank of England to hold...
It’s a Knockout! Successfully Raises Funds for Kaleidoscope Plus Group
On Wednesday 11 June 2025, businesses from across the region came together for the inaugural Kaleidoscope Plus Group It’s a Knockout! corporate teambuilding day. Hosted on the Pageant Field at Warwick Castle, overlooking the banks of the River Avon, the entertaining...
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