Derby and Ashbourne family-owned funeral directors Wathall’s have collected 615 shoeboxes of Christmas gifts, hygiene and school supplies which are now being shipped around the world to children in need.
Burton-based Ask the Chameleon director Rachel Hayward joined some of the UK’s top small businesses to receive special recognition at an exclusive House of Lords reception.
Ask the Chameleon was recognised as one of this year’s Small Biz 100 which ran ahead of Small Business Saturday, which was celebrated across the UK on December 1.
Derby College A level students Frederico Almeida and Sonja Sebastian are now half way through their year in office as Youth Mayor of Derby and Deputy Youth Mayor respectively and are relishing the opportunity to ensure young people in the city have a voice.
A group of Derby College students have been appointed to champion the opportunities for technology to be embedded into study programmes under a new partnership with IT services and solutions provider Fujitsu UK.
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Please note that our WW1 exhibition, "Dronfield's Untold Stories" is now open to the public! Make sure you visit the gallery when you're next at the Barn to view artefacts from the War, information boards, an interactive display and artwork produced by local schoolchildren.
Our first solo exhibition by Mark Langley, 'In the Shade of Leaf', is a new collection of landscape paintings that take Mark's work forward in an exciting new direction. The collection demonstrates a variety of experimental styles of working in paint. The exhibition focusses on depicting native trees in local settings, and experiments with lighting, from soft summer evening sun to the contrast of sunshine and shadow.
On Saturday 24 November, Derby Museum and Art Gallery will showcase The Unreturning Army, a special performance by Cotton Grass Theatre commemorating the love, loss and bravery of local people who lived through the First World War.
The stories and memories of students who have visited our White Hall Outdoor Education Centre since it opened almost 70 years ago are being collected to create a film about its history in a £10,000 project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Find out more here: https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/news-events/news-updates/news/were...