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SME Solicitors’ Private Client team wins ‘Team of the Year’
SME Solicitors, based on Sansome Walk in Worcester, is delighted to announce that its Private Client team has been awarded ‘Private Client Team of the Year’ at the Worcestershire Law Society Awards 2025. The team was recognised for its commitment to...
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SME Solicitors’ Private Client team wins ‘Team of the Year’
SME Solicitors, based on Sansome Walk in Worcester, is delighted to announce that its Private Client team has been awarded ‘Private Client Team of the Year’ at the Worcestershire Law Society Awards 2025. The team was recognised for its commitment to...
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Leaders In Strategy Blog – Why People Are NOT Your Greatest Asset!
Written by Mike Harris, Managing Director at Strategus Consulting Introduction Hello to all you Leaders In Strategy! I’m Mike Harris and welcome back to the latest episode of my blog, where I challenge the widely held belief that employees are a company’s most...
Local Businesswoman Jeevan Punj joins Mike Harris on the latest Leaders In Strategy Podcast.
Business consultants Strategus Consulting are excited to announce that award winning entrepreneur, businesswoman and founder of Elite Hampers Jeevan Punj is joining host Mike Harris on the latest edition of the Leaders In Strategy Podcast – ‘Advice on how to start a...
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Business Community Invited to Support Charity Ball
Business Community Invited to Support Charity Ball The Oakland Foundation, a children’s charity, will benefit from a Charity Ball to be held on Saturday, September 28th, at the Crowne Plaza, Stratford-Upon-Avon. An evening of music, fun and fundraising all to support...
Thursfields has Advised MTM Engineering on its Acquisition of TA Ronan, a Leading Provider of Cable Installation and Termination Services in the UK.
MTM was founded in 1997 and, in its 27-year history, has expanded rapidly, both organically and through acquisition. In 2022, Waterland Private Equity completed the acquisition of a majority stake in the MTM group. TA Ronan was established in 1949 and is headquartered...
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FOLK2FOLK on course to surpass £1M profit target
FOLK2FOLK, the national Marketplace lender for SMEs in regional Britain, has announced it expects to turn a seven-figure profit for its 2020 financial year, surpassing the company’s pre-pandemic profit target for 2020. The anticipated profit of around £1M is a...
Hay Festival unveils free Programme for Schools and new Beacons Project workshops
Hay Festival has today revealed its free Programme for Schools for this spring’s edition, bringing writers and young people together online for a series of inspiring interactive activities and workshops, 24-28 May 2021, ahead of the main programme running 26 May-6...
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Get your affairs in order whilst supporting Primrose Hospice
Worcestershire based King Will’s Wills is really pleased to be providing Will writing services for Primrose Hospice during Make a Will Month, which will run throughout October. King Will’s Wills will be donating their time free of charge to update or write wills in...
Father-of-two’s cycle ride for Primrose in memory of beloved nan, Molly
A father of two cycled 100k with six friends in memory of his beloved nan, grandad and father-in-law. Tom Burbridge, from Redditch, decided to organise the ride as a way to honour their memory and raised over £2,100 for Primrose Hospice, a charity close to the...
UK job vacancies return to pre-pandemic levels
Recently released data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the number of job vacancies in the UK surpassed pre-pandemic levels in the three months to June. The ONS said there were 862,000 jobs available on offer between April and June, 77,500...
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UK job vacancies return to pre-pandemic levels
Recently released data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the number of job vacancies in the UK surpassed pre-pandemic levels in the three months to June. The ONS said there were 862,000 jobs available on offer between April and June, 77,500...
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Create hope through action this World Suicide Prevention Day
It’s World Suicide Prevention Day this Friday,10 September, an annual event which aims to raise awareness of how we can all help to create a world where fewer people die by suicide. “Creating hope through action” is the theme this year and to support this, new local...
Wellbeing Wednesday at Morgan Motor Company
Wellbeing Wednesday is a new initiative recently launched at the Morgan Motor Company from an idea generated during a Mental Health First Aid training session. Each Wednesday employees are sent a newsletter by email with content focused on health and wellbeing. The...
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Yeleni – Our doors are OPEN!
Yeleni Therapy & Support are thrilled to welcome clients, familiar faces and new, back to the centre for complementary therapies and beauty treatments. Those living with and beyond cancer and the general public have been thrilled to be able to access face-to-face...
Marches to be national leader in digital technology
A new blueprint to make the Marches a national leader in digital technology for years to come has been launched today. The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership – the business-led body which drives the region’s economic growth – says its new digital strategy will help...
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Lynhales Hall Nursing Home Recognised with Top 20 Care Home Award
Lynhales Hall Nursing Home Recognised with Top 20 Care Home Award Herefordshire’s Lynhales Hall Nursing Home has proudly earned recognition as one of the top twenty rated care homes in the West Midlands. This esteemed accolade, presented by carehome.co.uk as...
Shaw Trust Referral onto WHP Pioneer
GOOD NEWS STORY Redditch participant signed up to our Shaw Trust Pioneer Programme as needed support to search and apply for jobs. On first meeting with their Pioneer Employment Advisor the participant attended with his mum who was quite negative towards her...
Pressure Of Interest Rates On Business Revealed
BCC survey of more than 1,000 UK businesses finds one third (33%) are negatively impacted by the current Bank of England interest rate. Small and mid-sized firms (39%), manufacturers (36%) and business to consumer firms (37%) are more likely to report a...
Employers Warned to be Prepared for Raft of Legal Changes to Workplace Policies
One of the county’s top employment lawyers is warning businesses to be prepared for a raft of legislative changes that will transform workplace policies and pay, and see workers given additional rights. The warning has come from employment specialist Sally Morris,...
Marches LEP Capital Fund Delivers £600,000 Support
A major new capital investment fund delivered by the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership has awarded more than £600,000 to organisations across the region. Six successful schemes will receive a total of £612,793 from the LEP’s Capital Project Fund to help them...
Legal success as newly qualified solicitor takes on permanent role
A promising Wyre Forest solicitor is celebrating after becoming a fully qualified lawyer. Lawyer Amelia Edwards has now completed her 18-month training contract at law firm mfg Solicitors, having worked at the firm for 12 months prior to the commencement of her...
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