High-tech speakerphone donation helps Lubrizol seal new academy partnership with Derby College
Derbyshire firm Lubrizol has helped IT students to learn better during the lockdown by donating high-tech speakerphones to mark the start of a new exciting employer academy tie-in. The Hazelwood company has given Derby College Group (DCG) 10 free Jabra Pucks to enable students on Digital study programmes to take part in virtual meetings after […]
Derby businesses including Invictus Communications, Project D, Century Mobile, HUUB and Sky Recruitment Solutions – join forces to help spread Christmas cheer across the city
A group of businessmen from a host of leading Derby firms gave up their time to spread some Christmas cheer when they sponsored a huge campaign to deliver food and hampers to hundreds of lonely pensioners living across the city. Jonny McPhee, managing director of Invictus Communications, David Torrington, managing director of Sky Recruitment Solutions, […]
Progressive Sports: Derbyshire school children mark the start of Christmas with glow-in-the-dark parties
CHRISTMAS is going to be different for everyone this year. But a Derby sports firm which works with primary schools across the city and county is determined to make sure that the festive season is a fun time for everyone – by holding glow in the dark Christmas parties for staff and pupils every day […]
Murray Park pupils share ambitions and goals with Derby business leaders as part of Enterprise 4 Education
A BUDDING scientist and an aspiring singer were given a taste of the ‘real’ world as Derby business leaders took part in virtual mock interviews with Year 11 students at Murray Park Community School. The interviews were organised by the school’s Tim Taylor and Enterprise 4 Education (E4E); an organisation led by Derby City Council […]
St Giles bids farewell to “engine” of their Derby school
A DERBY school has said a fond farewell to one of their longest-serving members of staff as she retires. Lesley Ashdown has spent 22 years working at St Giles School, Derby’s only special primary school, and leaves at the end of the year. Executive head teacher Clive Lawrence has thanked Lesley for her ‘hard work […]
Royal School for the Deaf Derby awarded for outstanding mental health and wellbeing support
A Derby school for deaf children has become the first in the UK to gain a prestigious international award for its outstanding mental health and wellbeing provision. The Royal School for the Deaf Derby has received a gold award, the highest accolade on offer from The Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. […]
Divine Box: Derbyshire entrepreneur receives more than 12,500 toilet bomb orders for Christmas
A Derbyshire entrepreneur is feeling flushed with success after handling pre-Christmas orders for more than 12,500 fizzy bombs – for the toilet. Danielle Dunn runs toiletries firm Divine Box from her Swadlincote home and makes a range of luxurious handmade bath bombs, soaps, showergels and shampoos with a team of eight staff. But her best-selling […]
Effigy of national importance discovered in St Wilfrid’s in Barrow upon Trent
Residents in a Derbyshire village have stumbled upon the earliest known alabaster effigy of a priest in the UK during the modernisation of a medieval church – a discovery which experts have described as “exciting beyond our expectations”. The forgotten monument has been uncovered in St Wilfrid’s, in Barrow upon Trent, a 10th century church which […]
Kind-hearted Derby financial adviser agrees to share profits with city charity me&dee
A Derby financial advisor has offered to hand over a share of his profits throughout 2021 to a city charity which send families who are going through tough times on much-needed holidays. James Wallis, founder of Aristotle Financial Planning, which is based at Friar Gate Studios, has agreed to make the donations for the next […]
Derbyshire firm Securiscape’s SecuriPods help keep Blenheim Palace’s Christmas Lights trail safe
A Derbyshire manufacturer of outdoor security devices has played its part in helping one of the country’s largest Christmas celebrations go ahead in safety by supplying and installing a ground-breaking barrier specifically designed to protect outdoor events. Securiscape has deployed its SecuriPods vehicle mitigation barriers to protect Blenheim Palace’s spectacular Christmas Lights trail, which opened […]