News from producers around Derbyshire

We have two new exciting positions opening here at Artcore for an Assistant Curator – Digital & Media and a Finance Officer!

Deadline for submission: 15th November 2020

We are pleased to confirm that Derby Market Place will make a festive transformation to host a COVID-secure traditional Christmas Market.

Taking place on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th December 2020 10:00am – 16:00pm.

Are You A Small Business Owner In The Derbyshire Dales? Meet Your MP & Share Your Views

On 30 November 2020, the Federation of Small Businesses will be hosting a roundtable event enabling Derbyshire Dales based businesses to speak directly with Sarah Dines MP, the elected Member Of Parliament for the Derbyshire Dales.

Helen Wathall MBE has won the title of Family Business Director of the Year in the prestigious Midlands Institute of Directors annual awards.

Helen is the fifth generation of her family to run Wathall’s which is Derby’s longest established independent funeral directors - established since 1858 - and now also has branches in Ashbourne, Alvaston, Borrowash and Burton.

She was appointed Managing Director after the death of her father Bill Wathall and has recently been joined in the business by her daughters Bec and Charlotte.

Marketing Derby is calling on up-and-coming entrepreneurs to enter its annual Rising Star competition, whi

Due to the ongoing Covid restrictions this year’s Luminate cannot go ahead as a lantern parade around Derby’s wonderful Arboretum. The organisers, The Friends of Derby Arboretum, following on from their summer festival success via Zoom and YouTube will be organising the celebration online.

In partnership with the county's district and borough councils we're launching a new way for Derbyshire communities to browse, book and buy local online, as part of a scheme to support towns and villages across the county.

Karen Lucas-Hughes has won the Writing East Midlands Aurora prize for the attached poem, “Bathing”.

Adult Community Education Centres will remain open during the November lockdown and will continue to deliver learning. Many courses are now delivered online or remotely via Zoom, including the exciting courses with new creative writing tutor Laura Stroud.