Ann Bhatti, head of Connect Derby, has been shortlisted for the Public & Third Sector Award at the East Midlands Leadership Awards 2020. Ann has been recognised for her strong and innovate leadership skills which has helped to establish Connect Derby as

Derby Lacemaker Louise West has been shortlisted for the Creative Industries Entrepreneur of the Year for the Midlands region at the 2020 Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Louise, who is based at Connect Derby’s Friar Gate Studios, was nominated for the award in

A new business club for Uttoxeter has been launched by leading developer David Wilson Homes. With the aim of supporting local firms get back on their feet post lockdown, the Bentley Business Club, as it has been named after the company’s new

As a nation, Britons love a summer holiday abroad, in the sunshine, by the sea. However, as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, holidaying abroad may not be an option for many people. With the future of social distancing, travel quarantine guidelines

Leading developer Barratt Homes West Midlands is offering first time buyers the chance to get their feet firmly on the property ladder, with a range of homes available at Holly Blue Meadows with the Help to Buy scheme.   As the number

Following HSE announcements that they intend to carry out unannounced spot checks on businesses, experts from Leicestershire based engineering health and safety and environmental risk management firm Finch Consulting have combined forces to help businesses avoid fines. By encouraging businesses to ‘Be

East Midlands-based civil and structural engineering firm BSP Consulting has been appointed to the four-year Procure Partnerships Framework (Professional Services) Agreement. BSP won a place on the Procure Partnerships Framework (Professional Services) Agreement to cover both structural engineering, and civil and highways

Leicestershire homebuyers can use Help to Buy to purchase a property to meet their newfound needs at David Wilson Homes’ development in Kibworth. Both first time buyers and existing homeowners are discovering the benefits of the scheme, which allows buyers to purchase

As house-hunting goals have shifted since the UK’s lockdown, Barratt Homes has met the demand for flexible living at its Romans’ Quarter development in Bingham. Priorities for Nottinghamshire homebuyers have changed and the homebuilder’s four bedroom Windermere style home at the Dunsmore

Two businesswomen are set to host a free webinar to give tips to firms on how to thrive beyond Coronavirus. Tina Clough, of Poppy PR, and Lindsey Newman-Wood, who runs Passion Marketing, teamed up earlier this summer to offer a complete public

A thriving East Midlands assisted living firm has moved into a new 420 square-foot office at the former Rolls-Royce building in the Osmaston area of Derby as business continues to boom. Locally We Do, which helps vulnerable people, such as the elderly and disabled, live independently

A hand sanitiser station featuring £1M innovative software is helping to keep staff and visitors safe at the region’s leading business representation organisation. The Black Box Edge™, developed by Derby-based IT support firm RDS Global, is incorporated into the facility, which has

WHILE manufacturing industries may have cut back production in the recent lockdown and cranes stayed idle a Derby engineering consultancy has been laying the groundwork for prestigious projects. The different projects, worth multi-million pound income for Rodgers Leask,  include the biggest ever

Award-winning East Midlands Renault Trucks Dealer, RH Commercial Vehicles (RHCV) is expanding its operation, with Isuzu.   RHCV has four sites in total, in Nottingham, Cossington (Leicester) and Alfreton, (Derby) plus Northampton which it acquired in 2018 as part of its strategic

East Midlands based renewable energy company Geo Green Power have been awarded Best Renewables Supplier at the first ever Homebuilding & Renovating Awards. The new 2020 Homebuilding & Renovating Awards were hosted at the Virtual Homebuilding & Renovating Show on Friday 24

Rutland-based event business Versatile has proudly announced that they have been voted as the UK’s eleventh favourite event supplier. Back in March of this year, the highly acclaimed event industry publication Stand Out Magazine, launched “The Crystals,” in which they called upon

THE £2m relocation of the interventional radiology department to the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester has now completed. The new ward comprises of recovery bed bays, day case bed bays, associated toilet and change facilities, utility rooms, nurses’ station, control rooms and technical

Civil, structural and transportation engineering firm BSP Consulting has successfully passed the BSI BIM Level 2 audit, making it one of a limited number of consultants in the industry to have secured the BSI Kitemark certification. The audit of the Building Information

As lockdown restrictions begin to ease and we return to a ‘new normal’ it’s more important than ever to make your home a sanctuary no matter what your circumstances may be during the pandemic. Leading developer David Wilson Homes East Midlands has

A much-loved Derbyshire bakery is aiming to celebrate the generosity and spirit of its local community by launching a formal search for three lockdown heroes. Stacey’s Bakery, which has branches in Ilkeston, Eastwood and Heanor, was quick to adapt its services to the