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Budget consultation for businesses

Budget consultation for businesses

Worcester City Council is the only organisation exclusively dedicated to serving Worcester’s 106,700 residents, but we face tough decisions as we consider how your money should be spent and what our priorities should be for the year ahead. Every year the Council is...

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Celebrating excellence in apprenticeships

Celebrating excellence in apprenticeships

We are delighted to announce that nominations are now open for the first-ever Herefordshire Apprenticeship Awards. Hosted by Herefordshire Growth Hub in partnership with Herefordshire Council and local training organisations, these awards will recognise and celebrate:...

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Talk to Explore the Jewish Experience in Nazi Germany

Talk to Explore the Jewish Experience in Nazi Germany

A University of Worcester lecturer will give a special talk to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Dr Paddy McNally, Principal Lecturer in History and Politics, will deliver the talk on...

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The roadmap to recovery – latest from Boris Johnson

The roadmap to recovery – latest from Boris Johnson

In a speech on Monday 15 February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the national vaccination programme surpassed the target set 6 weeks ago, as it reaches a milestone of more than 15 million people vaccinated across the UK. More than 90% of those aged over...

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BEIS seek business views on mass testing

BEIS seek business views on mass testing

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is seeking views from businesses in England about their interest in asymptomatic testing and the reasons they are/are not testing, or planning to test, their asymptomatic staff. They are investigating...

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Worcester city run places

Worcester city run places

The Grace Kelly childhood Cancer Trust works tirelessly to raise awareness of the early signs & symptoms of all childhood cancers. Our awareness cards have now reached out nationally and locally to over 500.000 families and aided in the early diagnosis of 7...

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Business community lends its support to upcoming charity ball

Business community lends its support to upcoming charity ball

A glittering Charity Ball in aide of the Oakland Foundation is taking place at the National Motorcycle Museum and Conference Centre, Birmingham on Friday 6 September 2019. Headline sponsors lining up to support the event include SPAR UK, Calderhead Refrigerated...

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Norway-UK Trade agreement

Norway-UK Trade agreement

The UK signed a trade in goods agreement with Iceland and Norway on 8 December 2020. The upgraded Norway-UK trade agreement has come into force. It offers further tariff reductions, labour mobility opportunities and expansion of digital trade through electronic...

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Norway-UK Trade agreement

The UK signed a trade in goods agreement with Iceland and Norway on 8 December 2020. The upgraded Norway-UK trade agreement has come into force. It offers further tariff reductions, labour mobility opportunities and expansion of digital trade through electronic...

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Worcestershire News

Welcome new Members!

Welcome new Members!

The Chamber would like to wish a very warm welcome to our newest Members this month: Herefordshire 2Faced Dance Company – Leading UK contemporary dance company Minibike Tyres – Minibike Tyres is the UK’s No1 dealer for PMT racing tyres Romy-Wrays...

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Congratulations to the Queen’s Award winners!

Congratulations to the Queen’s Award winners!

The Queen’s Awards winners have now been announced and we are thrilled to announce that 3 Worcestershire businesses and 2 Herefordshire businesses have been awarded The Queens Award for Enterprise. Huge congratulations to Fibex Ltd, OLPRO and Payara Services Ltd...

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Herefordshire News

NHS Birthday 2020 – How your business can get involved

NHS Birthday 2020 – How your business can get involved

The 5th July marks the 72nd birthday of the NHS and the nation is going to come together to give thanks. Thanks to all those who have helped the NHS through this crisis, those who have gone to work to keep the NHS healthy and supplied, our neighbours who have looked after the vulnerable and the whole country for sticking with social distancing, even when it was hard. 

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What would you ask your Local MP?

What would you ask your Local MP?

As a result of the General Election in July, many of the local constituencies have elected a new member of parliament and many residents have not yet had the chance to speak with their MP. Therefore, Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce want to give...

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Lights of Love to shine across Worcestershire

Lights of Love to shine across Worcestershire

Hundreds of twinkling lights will be lit in memory and celebration of loved ones this festive season, in the annual St Richard’s Hospice Lights of Love campaign. There will be two moving and uplifting St Richard’s Lights of Love services at Worcester Cathedral at...

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Prestigious Award Win for KEMP Hospice Fundraiser

Prestigious Award Win for KEMP Hospice Fundraiser

Jayne Sargeant, Head of Fundraising and Communications at KEMP Hospice has been chosen as Fundraiser of the Year 2024 at the Institute of Fundraising (IOF) West Midlands Conference. The award, sponsored by Charity People, was presented during a prestigious ceremony...

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