Owner of IT firm gearing up for a busy year of fundraising with epic bike ride and family fun run
THE owner of a leading city IT firm is gearing up for a busy year of fundraising for local charities that includes a family fun run and an epic bike ride to Skegness. Lee Jepson, founder of L.E.A.D. IT Services and a former Noel-Baker Academy pupil, will cycle the 100 miles from Derby to the […]
World Book Day 2024 – here’s a photo gallery from schools across Derby and Derbyshire
The mission is simple: to promote a love of reading for pleasure and offering every child in the UK and Ireland the chance to have a book of their own. World Book Day – a charity that operates in the UK and Ireland – was created by UNESCO on April 23rd 1995 as a worldwide […]
School pupils create posters to alert parents to the dangers of careless parking
PUPILS at a Chesterfield school have been creating eye-catching posters to display around the grounds, alerting parents and carers to the dangers of careless parking. Youngsters from Dunston Primary and Nursery Academy were tasked with looking at parking outside the school, in Dunston Lane, Newbold, and then making posters that would help voice their concerns. […]
Inspector full of praise for All Saints CE Junior School during SIAMS visit
A Derbyshire school where “every child is known, loved and accepted for who they are” has been praised for keeping Christian values at its heart. All Saints Church of England Junior School, in Hurds Hollow, Matlock, has been visited by an inspector as part of the Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) report, […]
Leading PR expert set to host Derby Book Festival event with Great British Bake-Off finalist Laura Adlington
ONE of Derby’s leading PR experts will be conducting a show-stopping interview with a former Great British Bake-Off finalist and social media influencer as part of Derby Book Festival’s Spring Collection. Former journalist Kerry Ganly – now account manager with Penguin PR – is hosting an event at QUAD next month in which she will […]
UK drinks firm Virtus Brands underlines its ambitions as it hires experienced sales director
An experienced UK retail sales director says he is looking forward to an exciting new challenge after joining highly ambitious West Midlands independent drinks collective Virtus Brands. Tony Houlston, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the food and drink retail sector and was previously at symbol group Select & Save, was appointed sales […]
Derby Cathedral School headteacher welcomes announcement on disposal vapes
A Derby headteacher has welcomed plans to ban disposable vapes as schools across the country have seen an alarming rise in young people taking up the habit. Jenny Brown, of Derby Cathedral School, in Great Northern Road, is part of a group of headteachers from across the city who have been working together to tackle […]
Two village schools join the Derby Diocesan Academy Trust family
Two village schools with less than 50 pupils between them say they have joined a new family after becoming part of a Derbyshire academy trust. Teresa Bosley, head teacher of both Marston Montgomery Primary School, in Marston Montgomery, and Long Lane Primary School in Dalbury Lees, has announced that the two schools have joined Derby […]
Penguin PR picks up a hat-trick of new clients
LEADING Derby public relations agency Penguin PR is celebrating a series of new clients wins as it looks forward to another year of continued growth and expansion. Penguin PR, based at Oaklands in Duffield Road, has added three new accounts to its growing client base – education provider Odyssey Collaborative Trust, brand new restaurant chain […]
Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern shares his experience with The Bemrose School pupils
A MAN who was just five-years-old when he was taken away to a Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands says that young people have the opportunity to “change the world”. Dr Martin Stern MBE was speaking ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day and following a whistle-stop tour of local schools that included Repton School, Derby Grammar […]