Derby-based Vibrant Accountancy gets its sums right after expanding team with three key new appointments
Leading Derby accountancy firm Vibrant Accountancy is continuing to grow after expanding its team with three key new appointments. Lodge Lane-based Vibrant Accountancy, founded by Bev Wakefield, has welcomed two new faces to its expanding team: Dawn Ford, who takes on the role of client manager, and Hana Chatwin, who joins as one of the […]
Digital marketers find the recipe for teamwork as they serve up lunch for the YMCA
Digital marketers swapped their computers for chopping boards when they volunteered to cook lunch for dozens of people at the YMCA Derbyshire. Five members of staff from JDR Group gave up their morning to prepare a two-course lunch on Friday as part of the YMCA’s monthly community meal, which it offers in partnership with the […]
The write way to spend your lunch
YOUNG journalists at a Mickleover school are making their own headline news after launching a brand-new magazine. A group of pupils at Murray Park School have joined a lunchtime journalism club, which was set up earlier this year to help improve writing and creative skills. Named The OASIS, the magazine draws inspiration from the school’s motto […]
Planting the seeds of well-being
Pupils at a city school have made a blooming lovely difference to one of Derby’s main roads by planting dozens of sunflowers to highlight the importance of mental health. Children across the primary and secondary phases of The Bemrose School have been growing sunflowers for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week which has the theme […]
Leading Derby IT education provider starts Cosy new partnership
A leading Derby education IT company has started up a “Cosy” new partnership with a multi-million-pound sustainable playground furniture and equipment business. Derby-based L.E.A.D. IT services, which provides tech support to nearly 250 schools and trusts across the UK, is expanding its remit to work with businesses and has signed up Cosy Direct. Cosy Direct, […]
Barron McCann’s brand new Innovation Hub demonstrates the technology of tomorrow
A LEADING tech business has created a state-of-the-art innovation hub showcasing the most advanced technologies transforming the retail, stadium and hospitality sectors. Barron McCann, which lists Pets at Home, Papa Johns and Iceland among its clients, has created the cutting-edge facility in its Derby headquarters where customers and partners can experience first-hand the technologies shaping […]
Bemrose students get a front-row seat to engineering and sustainability at the Houses of Parliament
STUDENTS from The Bemrose School were invited to the House of Lords to listen to industry experts discuss the latest developments in engineering and sustainability. The year 10 pupils, who all study triple science with a keen interest in engineering, heard a debate on how the UK is working towards reducing our carbon emissions and how […]
Once homeless Theresa says without Derventio Housing Trust’s life-saving Healthy Futures scheme she would likely be “dead or locked up”
Once-homeless Derbyshire residents who have fled situations including sleeping rough, dire accommodation and leaving abusive relationships have thanked a valuable project which has saved the NHS tens of thousands of pounds over the years. Theresa Kestle, Kelsey Hudspeth and Violet Osborn have all joined together in thanking Derventio Housing Trust for running the ‘Healthy Futures’ […]
Lubrizol helps teenage fundraising scouts equip remote Derbyshire hut with life-saving defibrillator
Derbyshire science company Lubrizol has lent its support to a local scout group who have raised around £1700 to equip their remote hut with a life-saving defibrillator. Lubrizol helped 1st Sitwell Scout Group with a donation towards a defibrillator for their hut, along with Smalley Community Group and the Locko Fund for Children and Young […]
Brookfields Nursing Home in Derby welcomes youngest team member – aged seven!
Derby’s oldest nursing home has welcomed a new member of the team to help put smiles on the faces of its elderly residents – and she’s only seven! Skye Fearnehough is the youngest member of the team at Brookfields Private Nursing Home on Burton Road, where she visits around twice a month to chat to […]