Family-owned Wathall’s funeral directors, which has branches in Ashbourne, Derby, Alvaston, Borrowash and Burton, has helped a youth football team return to competitive
sports by sponsoring their new kit.

Albert Village Junior Football Club’s under-12’s Harriers team plays in the Burton Junior Football League is now sporting the new kit at matches based at local sports grounds.

Staff at a Belper firm helped their company achieve its volunteering total for the year when they carried out potentially life-saving work to help rescue teams operating in remote areas - without even leaving their desks. Fourteen workers at Lubrizol’s UK headquarters in Hazelwood gave up their day to help others by participating in the Red Cross’s Missing Maps project, a worldwide initiative designed to update free online maps by drawing in buildings, roads and natural features.

A Sports student at Derby College Group’s Broomfield Hall in Morley has clinched a coveted scholarship to study in the USA and play basketball for the college team.

Chartered surveyor Martin Langsdale, who is the long-standing chair of Derby Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID), has been awarded an MBE for his contribution to the city’s economy in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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.

Spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets
Friday 9th October 2020 17:30 - 18:15
Free, no need to book

Join us for the live launch of ‘Tales of Derby Women Past’, spoken word pieces by She Speaks UK poets, created exclusively for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site online Discovery Days Festival 2020. Six poets working in collaboration with She Speaks UK, have taken inspiration from Derby’s rich heritage to create spoken word pieces that highlight women’s stories from history.

Junction Arts are offering a fee poetry workshop on 13 th October, there is also more information about their new online poetry project.

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 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agatha-poirot-and-me-an-evening-with-soph...

‘Sculptures of Hope’
In these very strange times, and as the nights draw in towards winter, I thought it particularly important to make some work that was optimistic.