Huddersfield science company Lubrizol helps local women’s football club reach goals with funding boost
England’s Lionesses brought glory to their country with their barnstorming World Cup performance in 2023, and home-grown female football is going from strength to strength at Huddersfield Town Women FC – with support from a local science company. Huddersfield Town Women’s Football Club has recently benefited from support donated by science company Lubrizol, which has […]
Lubrizol helping grassroots football clubs keep scoring goals
Derbyshire grassroots football clubs helping players of all ages keep scoring goals are being supported by generous donations from science company Lubrizol, whose UK technical centre is based in the county. The Littleover Dazzlers, Duffield Dynamos, Sleetmoor United, Belper Town and Belper Town Ladies are all benefiting from support given by the company’s active charities […]
Belper Town Ladies footballers score valuable support from science company Lubrizol
A Derbyshire first division ladies’ football club has scored valuable support from a neighbouring science company to help kickstart their season – now they’d love to see lots of support on the pitch too. Belper Town Ladies Football Club has been going for more than 15 years and has been sponsored by local science company […]
Lubrizol staff help give Christmas toys to children from struggling families
Employees from science company Lubrizol have turned Christmas elf by helping struggling families with toys to put under the tree this year with Children First Derby. Staff at the company, based at Hazelwood near Belper, took themselves down to the shops to buy presents for families helped by Children First Derby. Kind-hearted Lubrizol employees bought […]
Lubrizol work colleagues take on non-stop 55-mile Derbyshire Heritage Way walk for lifesaving charity
Three work colleagues are challenging themselves to the max by taking on a non-stop 55-mile heritage walk through Derbyshire to raise money for St John Ambulance. Married couple Claire and Tim Hollingshurst and their work colleague Rich Trevatt, who all work at science company Lubrizol’s UK headquarters in Hazelwood, will be walking all 55 miles […]
Lubrizol married couple step it up with 55-mile charity walking challenge in under 24 hours
A married couple who work at the same Derbyshire science company have completed a remarkable 55-mile non-stop charity walking challenge. Tim and Claire Hollingshurst, who both work at the Derbyshire headquarters of science company Lubrizol, took just under 24 hours to walk the whole of the Heritage Way which follows the River Derwent from Ladybower […]
New Year’s Honours List hands Derby’s Sarah Armitage an MBE for education
A DERBY woman who has spent more than 20 years volunteering in local schools has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List for her services to education. Sarah Armitage was chair of governors at Richardson Endowed Primary School in Smalley – the school attended by her children – for eight years. […]
Derby City Council careers scheme E4E celebrates supporting its 50,000th pupil
A CAREERS initiative created to help inspire young people in Derby is celebrating supporting its 50,000th pupil. Careers scheme E4E is a Derby City Council initiative, set up in 2014. It provides CV writing workshops, mock interviews, mentoring and ‘Dragons Den’ style Enterprise Challenge Day, where pupils from city secondary schools pitch a project to […]
Fundraising projects have Enthusiasm for supporting young people
A CHARITY that supports young people from disadvantaged and deprived homes across the city has been given a boost after being named as the chosen charity by several high-profile projects. Enthusiasm Trust, based in Cotton Lane, runs programmes for the most hard to reach young people in Derby who are at very high risk of […]
Derbyshire Freemasons open the doors to more than 100 pupils after school suddenly closes
Freemasons came to the rescue of more than 100 pupils preparing for their GCSEs after their school was forced to suddenly close – leaving them at risk of “falling through the cracks”. Derbyshire Freemason owned Ashfield House, in Burton, has become a school by day and an event venue by night following the sudden closure […]