Leadership Development Day with Clore Leadership; 21st January 2020 at Derby Museum, 10 am - 4 pm.

The Happy Museums Project’s frame of wellbeing for people, place and planet has supported positive change since 2011 through their work with over 70 UK museums and cultural organisations. Join Happy Museum and Clore Leadership to explore what it means to be an effective change-maker, how to bring your individual passions and concerns around the environment to your workplace setting and have meaningful impact and influence through advocacy.

The Derbyshire Institute of Sport (DIS), an organisation intent on getting more budding athletes from Derbyshire to compete at major sporting events, has joined forces with local accountants and business advisors Smith Cooper, announcing a sponsorship agreement.

Local charity Rural Action Derbyshire is looking for people who are interested in making a difference in Derbyshire to join its Board of Trustees.

Derby’s University Technical College has been given the official go-ahead to start a new chapter and expand on its work to create a talent pipeline for the region’s top employers.

As 2019 draws to a close and 2020 appears as a bright light, we wanted to reflect on our achievements, and the people that make it happen.

Staff at a leading Derby PR agency, who are used to cooking up a media storm, swapped their pens for pinnies when they volunteered to cook for more than 70 people at a city charity’s community lunch.

The four members of Penguin PR spent the day chopping, boiling and baking, after the agency, based in Ashbourne Road, agreed to prepare the YMCA Derbyshire’s monthly free lunch event last week.

A deal has been brokered by Bondholder Salloway Property Consultants, on behalf of Derbyshire Constabulary, for a new multi-million pound police station in Derby.

The Derby Conference Centre held a free Community Christmas lunch on 9^th December - and it was such a great hit, it’s set to be a permanent feature on Derby’s festive calendar.

The invitation to the lunch was extended to a number of community groups and charities, including Re-engage (formerly Contact the Elderly) and a popular care facility for the elderly based in Derby itself. From 12pm to 4pm the 70 or so guests enjoyed some wonderful festive fayre, socialised with friends old and new and were thoroughly entertained by the Rolls Royce Ladies Choir.

A half-day LoveLit writing workshop for adults with Joanna Courtney, part of the writing ambitions

Following last week’s hugely successful Discover Creative Careers Week in which hundreds of employers engaged with thousands of young people to inspire them to consider careers in the creative industries, the Creative Careers Programme  and  Derby/Notts LEP  warmly invite you to join us to discover even more ways to support future talent to enter the creative economy.