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Can you write about ‘Light’ in a 50-word Festival competition?

Derby Book Festival is challenging children and adults to write a story or poem in up to fifty words on the subject of ‘Light for its 2023 Flash Fiction Writing Competition launched today (4 January). 

The eighth Derby Book Festival will be held from 19 - 27 May 2023. The winning stories will be printed on a set of bookmarks and will be distributed across Derby and Derbyshire to promote Derby Book Festival.

Mickleover Golf Club Tees Off Centenary Year With Charity Pledge

Mickleover Golf Club has pledged to support a local charity which supports hundreds of disabled children, young adults and their families across Derbyshire in this, its centenary year.

A wide range of events have been planned throughout the year by the club in Uttoxeter Road with the proceeds going to Umbrella Derby and Derbyshire towards its extensive play and leisure programme.

The fundraising is being driven by club captains Mitch Handley and Margaret Brooks who met with Umbrella CEO Ann Rowlands to officially launch the fundraising pledge.

South Derbyshire vitamins company helps workforce through cost-of-living crisis with free daily hot meals and an extra £400 winter payment

Amid plummeting UK temperatures, a Derbyshire company helping ward off coughs and sniffles by making vitamins is caring for its own employees with free hot meals and two extra winter payments during the coldest months of the year.

Employees at IVC Brunel Healthcare in Swadlincote are currently busy helping boost the nation’s immune systems by making millions of vitamin D tablets as well as hundreds of other formulations including echinacea to help stave off colds, as part of its overall production of four and a half billion tablets a year.

‘Super team’ at Derby College Nursery Receive “Outstanding’ Ofsted Praise

Derby College’s nursery Little Explorers, based at the Broomfield Hall campus in Morley, has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted inspectors in all areas of its work.

 

The inspection, which took place in November, looked at four key areas – effectiveness of leadership and management, quality of education; personal development and behaviour and attitudes – all of which were judged as ‘Outstanding’.

Pump Room hosts Fringe Christmas party!

Buxton Festival Fringe (July 5-23 2023) celebrated being open for entries at a lively Christmas party on December 9th. The event was held at the prestigious Buxton Pump Room, a Fringe venue, and featured a Derbyshire Village Carols singalong led by Kaleidoscope Choir’s Carol and Ian Bowns. Party food and drinks plus a bumper raffle generously supported by Buxton shops and businesses added to the festive fun.

Local Rotary Club Support Hope Box Appeal

Members of Rotary Club of Derby Mercia have donated £1,000 so that more young people and families supported by local charity Safe and Sound can receive special recognition and validation of their recovery journey.

Safe and Sound have worked with Derby-based personalised gift company Colleague Box to create a bespoke ‘Hope Box’ for local young people and families who they work with. Each Hope Box, which cost £20, is filled with calming activities, treats and positivity messages.

Made In Derbyshire

Dear Made in Derbyshire members,

Just to let you know that the Federation of Small Business Celebrating Small Business Awards are now open for entries.  They're open to both members and non-members of FSB.

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