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Gift Aid Fuels 105 life-saving missions for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
To mark Gift Aid Awareness Day on Thursday 9th October, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is showcasing the incredible impact of a simple tick box exercise, and how it can save lives. Thanks to the generosity of its supporters and the power of Gift Aid, the...
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Gift Aid Fuels 105 life-saving missions for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
To mark Gift Aid Awareness Day on Thursday 9th October, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is showcasing the incredible impact of a simple tick box exercise, and how it can save lives. Thanks to the generosity of its supporters and the power of Gift Aid, the...
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Sutcliffe & Co Named a Top Insurance Employer for the Third Consecutive Year
Worcester-based Sutcliffe & Co Insurance Brokers is proud to announce that they have been recognised as a ‘Top Insurance Employer 2025’ by Insurance Business UK (IBUK) Magazine—marking their third consecutive year receiving this prestigious award. Insurance...
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...
Patron & Strategic News
Welcoming a New Addition to the Let Property Team at Hazelton Mountford
Patron members Hazelton Mountford are thrilled to announce the arrival of a new team member to cover maternity leave within Let Property. Sophie Gibbins, Let Property Account Executive, is preparing to head off on maternity leave. Sophie says: “While I’ll...
DRPG’s Stage & Scenic Team Celebrates Earth Day with Green Initiatives
Leading creative communication agency DRPG has marked the month of Earth Day with a series of eco-friendly initiatives, highlighting the proactive efforts of its Stage & Scenic team specifically in championing sustainability and community engagement. ...
Chamber News
BCC Quarterly Economic Survey Q1 2021: Firms Fighting for Survival but More See a Route Out of Crisis
The British Chambers of Commerce’s Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) – the UK’s largest independent survey of business sentiment and a leading indicator of UK GDP growth – found that business conditions remained historically poor in the first quarter of 2021 as the...
Additional businesses eligible to access rapid coronavirus testing for home workers
Businesses with 10 or more employees will soon be able to access free rapid lateral coronavirus tests for their employees. If you cannot provide workplace testing, you will be able to order lateral rapid tests for free for your employees to collect from the workplace...
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Matcon helps Vale of Evesham School to install new sensory classroom
Evesham-based Powder Handling experts Matcon have been supporting The Vale of Evesham School, a Specialist School for Cognition and Learning since 2016 and this year we are proud to announce that £25,000 of funding has been provided towards the installation of a new...
Neoperl take on charity bike ride challenge
The Team at Neoperl has accepted the challenge to cycle from their Neoperl UK Factory in Malvern to Neoperl HQ in Mullheim, Germany a total of 704 miles in just 48 hours on an exercise bike. This is to raise as much money as possible for a local boy and his family who...
Update to working safely guidance ahead of lifting of social distancing measures
From Monday 19 July the government are no longer instructing people to work from home and are instead encouraging a “gradual” return to the office for businesses. Businesses still have a legal duty to manage health and safety risks. You must carry out a health and...
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Update to working safely guidance ahead of lifting of social distancing measures
From Monday 19 July the government are no longer instructing people to work from home and are instead encouraging a “gradual” return to the office for businesses. Businesses still have a legal duty to manage health and safety risks. You must carry out a health and...
Worcestershire News
Local Business Expands Team with Kickstarter Initiative
A Worcestershire business has created three new jobs for young people thanks to the Government’s Kickstart scheme. Smile Box is a subscription box and corporate wellbeing gift service which encourages people to focus more on self-care, wellbeing and positive mental...
Mental Health in an Unequal World: Acting Together to Prevent Suicide is it Time to Change?
Wednesday 6 October 10.00am-12.00pm In support of World Mental Health Day 2021, Time to Change Worcestershire and the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Suicide Prevention Team will host an event to explore this question: Is suicide a mental health matter, a matter of...
Herefordshire News
Halloween virtual marathon 31st October
Local Postman Mike Chandler is going to run 26 miles on a treadmill, alongside (socially distanced) 10 companion runners including The Mayor Councillor Kath Hey, Elliott Webb from BBC Hereford & Worcester Radio and Yeleni CEO, Nicky Heath. Mike is hoping that...
Natwest’s Business Growth enabler supporting business recovery
As businesses across Herefordshire and Worcestershire continue to restart, rebuild and recover, NatWest’s Business Growth Enabler Deborah Norton will be supporting businesses move forward following lockdown. In her role, NatWest will work with local partners to...
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Planting new churches and faith communities – with Simeon Chapman
Simeon Chapman, Director at Hazelton Mountford, has hands-on experience of cultivating new churches and faith communities across the country. As part of a team who specialise in the complexities of the insurance requirements that new Churches and Faith...
Local Firms Unite to Support Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust
Ballards LLP, an accountancy firm, and Four Squared Recruitment, its sister company, both based in Worcestershire, have chosen the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust as their Charity of the Year. The Trust funds research into rare and aggressive childhood cancers,...
Hundreds Gather at Cathedral for Award-Winning Worcester Charnel House Documentary Screening
A special screening of an award-winning documentary was shown to a packed Worcester Cathedral last weekend, raising over £4,000 for its upkeep. Life Over Death, which was produced by local video production agency Conteur, gave viewers the first ever look at...
Worcestershire Health and Safety Group
At our last meeting of the WHSG on the 13th March 2024, at Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Centre, we had the pleasure of Richard and Tim Prestage of Tim Prestage Ltd., who delivered an interesting and comprehensive presentation on conducting a Dangerous...
Independent Bewdley-Based Distillery- Wildjac Now Onboard easyJet Flights in Innovative Sustainable Alumini® Bottles
Wildjac, the sustainability-focused and independent spirits brand based in the heart of the Wyre Forest, will serve up its signature Cherry Wood Spiced Rum in innovative 100% aluminium recycled Alumini® 5cl Bottles on easyJet flights departing from Bristol and London...
Introducing PABON HALL INTERNATIONAL Trade Negotiators to the Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce!
My name is Lina Pabon, the founder and managing director of PABON HALL International Trade Negotiators. I am delighted to present my company to the public and make our services available to you. Our purpose is to bridge business and promotional interests between Latin...
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