An Arts Derbyshire project designed to boost the wellbeing of housebound people over-65 has been shortlisted for an award.
We have been nominated for Best Arts Project for Necklace of Stars in the National Campaign for the Arts' (NCA) Hearts For The Arts Awards 2021.
The awards celebrate the unsung heroes of local authorities who are championing the arts against all odds.
A Derbyshire poet is releasing the second chapter of an ‘audio artwork’ celebrating this year’s 70th Anniversary of the Peak District National Park (PDNP).
Mark Gwynne Jones is the creator of Voices From The Peak, a project celebrating the diverse sounds and stories of the Peak District. The eagerly awaited Chapter 2: Snow! will be released on 13 January.
Communications technology provider EVAD has revealed it is to relocate to Derby – the city in which its chief executive has lived in all his life.
Next month, the company will relocate from Burntwood, near Cannock, in Staffordshire, bringing around 40 staff, to the CUBO Derby serviced offices complex, in Victoria Street, which is owned by property firm Staton Young.
Rolls-Royce has successfully completed the first engine run on its new state-of-the-art testbed in Derby.
Called Testbed 80, the £90 million facility at the engineering giant’s civil aerospace site, in Sinfin, has been dubbed the largest and smartest indoor aerospace testbed in the world.
With an internal area of 7,500 square metres, the testbed is larger than a football pitch.
Derby’s SureScreen Diagnostics has secured an order from the Government for millions of Covid-19 rapid antigen tests.
The firm is to supply two million lateral flow tests, capable of providing results in under 30 minutes, by this Friday – with the potential to provide millions more in the coming months.
A company that came from an idea floated during a Marketing Derby live webinar has been named as the organisation’s Rising Star for 2021.
Daniel Henshaw’s fifth children’s book Killer Cat From Outer Space was released shortly before Christmas.
Derbyshire Poet Mark Gwynne Jones has released the second chapter of an ‘audio-artwork’ to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Peak District National Park (PDNP).
Voices From The Peak, is a project celebrating the diverse sounds and stories of the Peak District.
Chapter 2: Snow! Is now available and you can listen to an extract online at www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/voicesfromthepeak as well as Chapter 1: Burning Drake.
Derby Museums are excited to invite you to our first virtual auction which is being held on Thursday 11th February, hosted by Auctioneer and TV personality Charles Hanson.
We will be auctioning a variety of magnificent lots from a Midnight Robin Paperweight courtesy of Royal Crown Derby, a private tour and wine tasting courtesy of Renishaw Hall Vineyard, to a spa day with afternoon tea courtesy of Stancliffe Hall. The auction catalogue will go live the week before the event.
SmartParc has submitted plans for its 155-acre high-tech food manufacturing campus on the former Celanese site near Spondon.
The 1.8 million sq ft facility will provide manufacturing facilities, start-up incubation units and a potential location for a Food Manufacturing Technology Centre of Excellence. It is thought that the scheme will create 5,000 jobs.