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Midlands businesses urged to step up for young people facing homelessness with St Basils Hike for Homeless 2026
Businesses across the Midlands are being urged to swap boardrooms for walking boots this summer as St Basils launches Hike for Homeless 2026, a powerful team challenge with real impact for young people facing homelessness. Taking place on Saturday 20 June 2026 at...
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Midlands businesses urged to step up for young people facing homelessness with St Basils Hike for Homeless 2026
Businesses across the Midlands are being urged to swap boardrooms for walking boots this summer as St Basils launches Hike for Homeless 2026, a powerful team challenge with real impact for young people facing homelessness. Taking place on Saturday 20 June 2026 at...
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We’re delighted to welcome Jason Chaplin as the new Head of Commercial at DRG
With over three decades of industry experience, Jason brings exceptional depth in commercial strategy, quantity surveying, and client delivery across a broad range of sectors. Jason’s career is a masterclass in progression through skill, leadership, and hands-on...
Study to Examine How Supplements Interact During Exercise
A new study will explore how different supplements interact in the human body during exercise. Athletes of all levels often take multiple supplements to boost performance, recovery or endurance. While much is known about how individual supplements work, less is...
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Wyevale Nurseries Receives Plant Healthy Certification for Fourth Year in a Row
WYEVALE Nurseries has been awarded a Plant Healthy Certificate for its high biosecurity standards for the fourth year in succession it’s been revealed this month (June 2024). Kyle Ross, Production Manager at the Hereford-based leading UK commercial grower, was...
Research Will Explore Climate-Induced Migration
Two academics at the University of Worcester are part of a global research project looking at climate-induced migration and building resilience for communities. The groundbreaking £2.3million three-year research project, Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies...
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New Strategic Account Manager joins the Chamber
The Chamber has recently welcomed Jon Freail as the new Strategic Account Manager. He brings with him a wealth of experience and we are thrilled to have him as part of the team.
Launch of Marches Business Recovery Week/Annual Report
Join the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) as it launches Marches Business Recovery Week & publishes its latest Annual Report. This virtual event marks the start of a week of activity to help businesses in the region recover from the devastating impact of...
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Latest ONS Labour Market figures released
With the furlough scheme extended as well as vaccine rollout success, the UK labour market looks to have stabilised at the start of 2021 according to official data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Unemployment rate stood at 5 per cent in the three...
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Latest ONS Labour Market figures released
With the furlough scheme extended as well as vaccine rollout success, the UK labour market looks to have stabilised at the start of 2021 according to official data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Unemployment rate stood at 5 per cent in the three...
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‘Resilience, Evolution, Recovery’ click connect workshop with GBSLEP
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic GBSLEP will be hosting a virtual event series from Monday 30th November to Friday 4th December 2020. Resilience, Evolution, Recovery will consist of sessions that will focus on themes such as Green Recovery, Diversification, Skills & Innovation, Leadership through crisis and re-imagining our town centres.
Local property market data contradicts national outlook on demand for office space
Office occupancy levels in the UK’s largest cities remain low but a year-on-year data comparison undertaken by a Worcestershire commercial property agency reveals that national trends are not representative of activity at regional level. Pre-pandemic, Worcestershire’s...
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Wyevale Nurseries expands its sales support team
One of the UK’s leading nurseries based in Hereford has expanded its sales support team and taken on two new administrators this month. Wyevale Nurseries has promoted Paulina Sawicka from its propagation department to the team and appointed Helen Hoskins. Both are now...
Celtic Marches’ ‘Holly GoLightly’ 0.5% cider wins two prestigious awards
Celtic Marches’ award-winning low alcohol cider offering, Holly Golightly, has been shaking up the cider side of the low and no sector this year. Created using real Herefordshire cider apples, this refreshingly low 0.5% ABV craft cider still retains its...
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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...
Worcester Graduate Features in National Campaign
A graduate of the University of Worcester has been featured in a national campaign highlighting successful people who were the first in their family to go to university. Kiran Sahota is an award-winning social historian and founder of the community interest company,...
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