Category: Events

Timms Announce Three Key Promotions

Timms Solicitors have announced three key appointments across the firm to support its on-going growth.

Marketing manager Sharon Jeffery and Finance and Systems manager Ali Jodiyawalla have both been promoted to Senior Associate.  Wills and Probate solicitor Matt Kelly has also been promoted to Associate after completing Timms’ bespoke Pathways career development programme.

Managing partner Fiona Moffat explained: “Everyone at Timms has a personalised career development plan and we are fully committed to supporting individual’s aspirations and goals.

Your Search For Business Networking in Bakewell Is Over!

Business Networking in Bakewell is something that has been really, really needed judging by the enthusiastic response by attendees. So we are delighted to announce the next two face-to-face networking dates for your diaries. Join us on 31 May and 21 June in beautiful Bakewell!

For those of you who’ve attended the first two business networking sessions in Bakewell, you will know the score by now. We are now seeking to reach out to as many new people as possible to come to our next two dates that have just been announced.

Three 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 of the Derwent Valley Heritage Way next month, without stopping.

 

The trio are going the distance in aid of St John Ambulance, named by Lubrizol as its UK-wide charity earlier this year.

New Ambassadors Fly The Flag For Safe and Sound

Derbyshire’s specialist child exploitation charity, Safe and Sound, has recruited more local people to help raise awareness of the dangers facing vulnerable children and young people.

Entrepreneurs Persha Ward and Nadia Jane Asamoah as well as University of Derby lecturer Bev Crighton and marketing specialist Claire Morrison have become official ambassadors for the charity.

Mother-of-two Persha Ward runs her own business administration business S&A Management and was supported by Safe and Sound as a teenager.

Lonsdale Pool Re-opens After Vital Repairs

A long-established swimming pool in a Derby suburb will re-open on Friday May 19 after more than three months of disruption which, staff feared, could spell the end of the road for the popular community facility.

Lonsdale Pool in Bishop Lonsdale Way in Mickleover, was built around 50 years ago and was owned by the University of Derby until it was taken on by Lonsdale Swimming & Sports Trust in 2007 after the surrounding land was sold for housing.

Derby College student cements his place in national bricklaying competition

A Derby College student has a place in the final of a bricklaying competition after he was crowned regional winner.

Matthew Woolley, from Alvaston, Derby. came top of the senior category in the Guild of Bricklayers competition, which was held at Ilkeston Community College, part of the Derby College Group (DCG).

The 21-year-old who studies at Ilkeston is in his 2nd year of bricklaying training, having started back in 2021.

He has recently embarked on an apprenticeship with Major Oak, Design and Construction.

Derby College student cements his place in national bricklaying competition

A Derby College student has a place in the final of a bricklaying competition after he was crowned regional winner.

Matthew Woolley, from Alvaston, Derby. came top of the senior category in the Guild of Bricklayers competition, which was held at Ilkeston Community College, part of the Derby College Group (DCG).

The 21-year-old who studies at Ilkeston is in his 2nd year of bricklaying training, having started back in 2021.

He has recently embarked on an apprenticeship with Major Oak, Design and Construction.

Bakewell Business Destination Digital Marketing Brings FSB Business Networking To The Market Town

Peak District based Destination Digital Marketing has brought the Federation of Small Businesses and the Peak District National Park Authority together for a new face-to-face business networking monthly event.

Destination Digital Marketing based in Bakewell in the Peak District has brought together the FSB and the Peak District National Park to provide a brand new face-to-face business networking monthly event in the heart of this Peak District market town.

Less than 2 weeks to go till the County's most exciting Arts event!

Keep the bank holiday weekend free! 

To visit our fabulous artists around the county of course! There are over 200 artists exhibiting at 72 venues right across Derbyshire. We're sure you will find something you love and someone interesting to chat to. 

The event is on from Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May, 10.00am to 5.00pm each day. Many venues are also holding preview evenings on the Friday night. Look on our website or in the brochure for details of each one. 

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