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Team Building Through Board Games: A Different Kind of Collaboration
Having a team that works well together is key to a successful business. A team needs to be able to communicate clearly, overcome obstacles, plan for the future, and react to unexpected obstacles. These are all skills that board games can teach. Many modern board games...
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Team Building Through Board Games: A Different Kind of Collaboration
Having a team that works well together is key to a successful business. A team needs to be able to communicate clearly, overcome obstacles, plan for the future, and react to unexpected obstacles. These are all skills that board games can teach. Many modern board games...
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Epic fundraising relay to raise money for Acorn’s Children’s Hospice
Professionals from the Worcester office of a leading property consultancy will be embarking on an epic fundraising relay to raise money for a children’s hospice with a shop in the city. Fisher German, which has an office at Global House, is marking its 25th...
If Your Top Team Member Fell Ill, How Would the Business Survive?
Key Person Insurance If Your Top Team Member Fell Ill, How Would the Business Survive? Why It’s Time to Review Your Business Protection Plans Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that your operations director, technical lead, or top-performing sales manager is...
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More Government Funded Places for New Medical Students Allocated to Worcester.
The University of Worcester has been given the highest allocation of additional medical student places in the Midlands in the latest announcement of newly funded places for next year. The Three Counties Medical School will now have 62 fully funded places for UK...
Unmarried Couples Urged to Seek Advice to Protect their Assets for the Future
A leading family lawyer has urged cohabiting couples to protect their finances and assets in case of separation, as figures reveal more people are choosing to live together without marrying. Kennedy Langley, a family solicitor at Worcestershire-based mfg Solicitors,...
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Chamber welcomes new Chair of Herefordshire Area Council
On 26 March, a new Chair of the Chamber of Commerce Herefordshire Area Council was appointed. Mark Smith, Relationship Director at Lloyds Bank, took up the post securing him a position onto the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Mark will also be next in line for the role...
Back to business
For the first time in months, pub gardens, shops and hairdressers welcomed back customers as they reopened on Monday as part of the easing of lockdown restrictions. In what has been a challenging beginning of the year for many, this next step will represent a chance...
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Chamber supporting local hospice to raise £20,000 in 2020
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce is proud to be supporting St Richard’s Hospice’s 2020 Business Challenge – the first of its kind for the Worcester-based charity. The hospice provides care for adults with a serious progressive illness, helping to...
Early Christmas present for Santa Fun Run
THE Santa Fun Run is under starter’s orders thanks to a generous donation from Central England Co-operative Funeralcare. The popular Christmas event returns to Arrow Valley Lake on Sunday, December 1 and this year will not only feature a 5k run and a children’s...
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...
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Carer Friendly Employer Network Breakfast
Did you know that 1 in 7 employees in the UK are juggling work and a caring role outside of work? The peak age for caring is between 45-64 which means some of your most experienced staff will also be in a caring role. Come along to the breakfast launch of the...
Zero Carbon Tour Bus Hosted by University on way to COP26
The University of Worcester has hosted the Zero Carbon Tour bus on its travels across the UK to raise awareness ahead of a crucial meeting of world leaders on the climate emergency. Planet Mark’s fully electric powered carbon battle bus is visiting 30 towns and cities...
Herefordshire News
Opportunity: Waterworks Museum seeks help from Museum/Business Consultant
The Directors of the Waterworks Museum in Hereford are actively looking for an experienced Consultant who will provide a review of the Director’s Strategic Plan for the next five years. The Museum has set aside funding for an initial three days work, to be conducted...
What does Tier 1 mean for businesses?
In Tier 1, which Worcestershire & Herefordshire are currently in, businesses are able to access the Job Support Scheme, up until 19th October, they we able to access self-employed grants – NOW CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS, and local authority grants. This table shows the support available dependent on tier.
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NMITE Re-engineers Timber Courses for Targeted Learning: Making Sustainable Construction Education more accessible
The New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) announces the reconfiguration of its pioneering Timber Technology Engineering Design (TED) courses into specialised, concise programmes tailored for professionals within the UK’s built environment...
Events Give Public a Taste of University’s Work
Residents of Worcester can get a taste of some of the interesting work and research happening in their City at a three-day festival of knowledge sharing. The University of Worcester is running the Pint of Science event next month, in which academic staff and students...
The importance of continuous training for businesses
Continuous training is essential for businesses to remain competitive and drive growth. Effective training is the key to unlocking the potential of employees, and subsequently the business. Embracing this mindset means that business operations won’t stagnate,...
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...
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