Tickets for the Derby Choral Union's Singing Day on Saturday 10th June are selling fast, and there are just a few more days left to buy yours as sales close this Saturday. With over 110 tickets already sold and just 130 places, time is running out if you want to join us, so hurry!
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.
A Derby College manager is delighted to have achieved a once-in-a-lifetime experience, after attending one of the first Royal Garden Parties to be hosted by His Majesty King Charles III.
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.
Derby College has been offering its services to a Derby life-changing local charity, Jericho House for twenty years. Jericho House is a nine-Bed residential addiction recovery project, based in Alvaston, Derby that provides a holistic approach to drug addiction with elements of housing support and resettlement.
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.
The director of a Derbyshire social marketing agency who is working to help families navigate children’s mobile phone use has praised Kate Winslet for her impassioned Bafta acceptance speech highlighting the dangers of social media.
Anna Hutton, marketing director of MacMartin, an award-winning Derbyshire social marketing agency, has been delivering talks to teenagers in secondary schools aimed at helping them take back control of their social media consumption.
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.
Scientists at a Derbyshire firm are helping out fellow engineers who have left the world of work and are now using their skills to help people with disabilities by making free bespoke aids.
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.
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.
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.
East-Midlands firm Baker Consultants has been invited to install a soil listening station in the Royal Entomological Society Garden’s insect laboratory at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2023.
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.
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.
Derby Book Festival and Marketing Derby are appealing to local residents to have a rummage for any children’s books that are no longer needed and are lurking in cupboards at home. These will be provided to less fortunate children in the city who may not have books at home. The appeal is launched to coincide with this year’s Festival, which will be held from 19 – 27 May which Marketing Derby supports each year as do many of its Bondholders.
Artists, creative practitioners, studios, galleries, educators, family and friends of the courses, you are invited to join us as we showcase the work of graduating students from BA and MFA Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
This year we are celebrating their achievement with a series of exhibitions as part of the Department of Art and Design’s Future Now Festival of Creativity.
Level Centre in Rowsley have teamed up with Old Diorama Arts Centre (ODAC) to offer a joint residency opportunity for disabled artists. From the hubbub of central London to the tranquil borders of the Peak District, through the Parallel Perspectives residency artists will be able to spend time in both studios and their surrounding areas, using two distinctly different locations to explore their work.
The great Spital Arts Spectacular returns bigger and better than ever on Friday June 9th and Saturday June 10th.. Come along and see the wonderful talents of our local artists , many of whom are Spital residents.
We have photographers, a calligrapher, stained glass makers, craft workers , artists, and many others.
We also have the marvellous Ukrainian sisters and their amazing digital art work so come along and see what they have produced.
The audience votes who becomes Pop Star of the Century in a fun music show at Buxton Fringe Festival presented by the Peak District based Charnley Bruvvers, Alan and Chris.
Competing will be the likes of Elvis, Cliff, Agnetha from Abba, Amy, John Lennon and more and the audience will also be invited to sing along on the choruses of timeless songs.
Producer Alan says: "It going to be a great night and it greatly involves audience participation. It's going to be fascinating to see which singer prevails on the night as the Pop Star of the Century."
Driven by awe and wonder of the natural world Iona Lane delivers poetic songs, with subtle musical touches and contemplative melodies that link unheard stories with the world we find ourselves in today. Iona's debut album 'Hallival' to critical acclaim, reaching number 36 in the Folk Album Charts. Iona draws from landscapes and stories found within nature and has been described by Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2) as "a real talent!".
The most awaited Holi Hai! exhibition is just around the corner! Take a look at the festival of Holi captured through the eyes of Masood Sarwer, Nikki Culley, Huw Davies and Phil Basi.
Buxton Fringe is welcoming a new-found confidence from its entrants with around 190 exciting events featured in this year’s bumper printed programme.
Comedy and Music are much bigger categories than last year but Theatre also makes up a substantial part of the programme and there are entries for every genre including Spoken Word, Visual Arts, Dance, Children’s Events, Film, Street Theatre and more with many events that are free.
Horticulture students at Derby College Group are busy creating an amazing show garden entry for this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the Birmingham NEC in June.
Derby College Group (DCG) has successfully achieved Matrix reaccreditation, demonstrating the consistent strength of its information, advice and guidance services for learners in their career, learning, work and life goals.
The matrix standard is the international quality standard for organisations that deliver information, advice and/or guidance (IAG).
In just three months 282 residents from the parish of Brailsford and Ednaston have worked together to create an enormous 10.85-meter-long narrative embroidery inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry to celebrate the coronation of HM King Charles III.
The project was the concept of Brailsford and Ednaston Churches Together who commissioned Laura Burrill, a local Textiles Historian and Community Arts Practitioner, to design the embroidery and facilitate the delivery of the project alongside a team of enthusiastic and talented volunteers.
Come on a guided tour and find out about the history of Derby. A Cathedral city in the centre of England, lying on the River Derwent, rich in history, culture and diversity. A story of Romans, Vikings and onto the 18th century Enlightenment, Derby became noted for fine ceramics, industry and engineering. A centre of the British railway industry, it is the home of iconic Rolls Royce and the Toyota car assembly plant. Derby located at the start of the UNESCO Derwent Valley World Heritage site, hosts the world’s first factory, now the Museum of Making.
Producers, artisans and craftspeople based in Derbyshire are invited to showcase, promote and sell their products to thousands of visitors at Chatsworth Country Fair this summer.
Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, in partnership with Derbyshire County Council, is inviting local producers to apply for a place in the ‘Derbyshire Makers’ Marketplace’ at one of England’s most spectacular annual outdoor celebrations.
This year already there have been lots of exciting events at The Old Lock Up Gallery, including exhibiting artists, sales of their work and the beautiful shows. And there’s so much still to unfold here at the gallery this year.
At the moment there is the 2nd artist in residence of 2023 - Tansy Lee Moir - she’s spent almost a week working in the space and it’s so good to see her using the opportunity to it’s fullest. Tansy’s beautiful treescapes will be featured in the next 2 shows: The first of which is our annual Open - OPEN 2023.
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A colourful evening of fashion, entertainment and food, inspired by the Sari – a traditional outfit worn by women in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal - will be held on Friday May 26 at Slice of India in Mansfield Road, Derby.
The evening event (6.30pm to 9.30pm) has been organised by Derby’s South Asian arts organisation, Surtal Arts, as a belated finale event for last Autumn’s Derby Season of Light – a popular family festival of activities, events and performances to celebrate the city and county’s diversity and creativity.
Award nominated podcast sitcom written and inspired by Wirksworth Derbyshire is now crowdfunding for Series 3 of the podcast.
The series features many stars of sitcoms from the golden age including Vicki Michelle, Jeffrey Holland and Mike Fenton Stevens.
We have some great perk including the chance to appear in a minor role in an episode from the new series.
Please see link below for the Kickstarter campaign
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BMW has a longstanding commitment to fostering the arts and culture, boasting a global arts program that spans well over five decades. |
Leabrooks’ butcher Owen Taylor wins top accolades at national craft butchery awards
Leabrooks butcher, Owen Taylor & Sons, has scooped national awards for its Steak & Ale and Pork Pies.
Both pies won their respective categories (Best Steak Pie and Best Pork Pie) at this year’s Smithfield Awards, organised by the Q Guild of Butchers and widely recognised as the meat trade’s most high profile and challenging product evaluation.
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Five tourism businesses from the Peak District and Derbyshire have reached the finals of the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence where they will compete for the highest accolades in English tourism.
Great British Car Journey, Wildhive Callow Hall, The Blind Bull, Pure Outdoor and myGuidedWalks have been shortlisted for national glory after winning gold at the 2023 Peak District & Derbyshire Tourism Awards earlier this year.
Leabrooks' butcher Owen Taylor wins top accolades at national craft butchery awards
Leabrooks butcher, Owen Taylor & Sons, has scooped national awards for its Steak & Ale and Pork Pies.
Both pies won their respective categories (Best Steak Pie and Best Pork Pie) at this year’s Smithfield Awards, organised by the Q Guild of Butchers and widely recognised as the meat trade’s most high profile and challenging product evaluation.
