News from producers around Derbyshire

Derby College Group (DCG) Chief Executive Officer Mandie Stravino has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her services to education.

Derby’s Economic Recovery Task Force has put forward ambitious plans which target vacant retail units in St James’s Street, Market Place and Iron Gate.

YOUR IDEAS WANTED PLEASE! SPEND TEN MINUTES HAVING FUN AND CONTRIBUTE TO A FABULOUS POEM!

The wonderful poet Helen Mort (former Derbyshire Poet Laureate) is writing a community poem called Ticket to Hope. She is looking for people who live, work or study in Derbyshire, of all ages, to contribute, and is looking for lots of ideas to weave into and to inspire the poem. Derbyshire is a county with hope in it, and that’s quite literal – with the beautiful Hope Valley and
the train towards Edale and the Dark Peak, where passengers ask for a ‘ticket to Hope’.

Events coming up 

 How do you capture a place through poetry?

7-8pm, Tuesday 13th October -

 Burn Bright is a poetry-film created by Derbyshire writer Emma Pass in collaboration with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site’s for the Discovery Days Online Festival taking place from 9-11th October.

Interested in the process of how a poetry collection gets put together?

Poet Helen Mort launched the 'Ticket to Hope' Community Poetry Project on National Poetry Day.

Spend the evening with crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah at ‘Agatha, Poirot and Me’ on the evening of 27th October.

For tickets and more information  about this Zoom event please visit