Inspired Business is the business podcast series from the University of Derby. Bringing you engaging and inspiring stories from across the business landscape in Derby, Derbyshire and beyond. Across the series, topics such as leadership, the environment, big data, performance sport and more will be covered. We find out what it's like to start up a business, to grow a business - and what it's like to start again.
Thursday 21 May, 8.15am - 9.30am Online
Join University of Nottingham Ingenuity team as their panel of experts share insights into supporting your staff and preparing your business for the post-COVID19 return to work. All are welcome so book online.
Friday 15 May, 11.30am - 12.30pm Online
This event will feature three FSB Award Winners who will give you the know how to make a success of promoting your business externally.
Shamshad Walker from Shamshad Walker Marketing will talk about how to make the most of marketing your business with Debbie Porter of Gravity Digital giving some top tips on using social media and Rachel Hayward of Ask the Chameleon explaining how you can secure success through bid writing and award entries.
The winner of the second Derby Children’s Picture Book Award is announced today (1 May) by the organisers of Derby Book Festival. The winning book, from a shortlist of four, is Brian the Brave by Paul Stewart and Jane Porter, published by Otter-Barry. The Award, sponsored by local businesswoman Deborah Fern, aims to celebrate picture books that children can relate to and in which the diversity and challenges of modern life are represented.
Derby-based washroom hygiene services and water conservation specialists HSG have launched a new initiative to help businesses prepare for a smooth return to trading once lockdown restrictions start to be eased.
HSG’s Hygiene Audit - a health and wellbeing assessment for businesses - aims to give business owners peace of mind that they are doing everything they can to ensure the safety of their customers and staff moving forwards.
Bondholder Derby City Council is urging the city’s businesses to check if they have submitted a claim from the £47 million financial support and relief Covid-19 pandemic package.
Around 3,900 businesses are eligible to receive grants of either £10,000 or £25,000 yet to date, 1,000 companies have failed to submit.
In the fight against the pandemic, Derby-based Bondholder N4 Pharma Plc is undertaking a Covid-19 proof of concept research project for Nuvec®, a novel delivery system for cancer treatments and vaccines.
The company has received delivery of an initial quantity of the Covid-19 plasmid DNA from the National Institute for Health in the USA and has appointed Evotec International Gmbh to undertake the proof of concept work for use with Covid-19 at its site in Toulouse, France.
'Better In Than Out' Cycle Jersey & T-Shirt, raising money for NHS Charities Together.
See more on the website: https://huubdesign.com/collections/better-in-than-out
All The Lonely People now available to view online! Written by Sue Hawkins and directed by Gerard Rogers, this comedy was performed in 2017 and starred Claire McKenzie, Tim Dudley, Simon White, Sue Hawkins, Suzanne Elvidge, Kathryn Black and Pete Hawkins. With music by The Reel Deal (Jane and Bob Diehl and Robin Bower). Script copyright Sue Hawkins. Contact Tideswell Community Players for more information.
Uploaded in the 90th year of TCP performances.
They just keep them coming! The next live peformance to be posted online from 7pm on Friday 24th April by the popular touring company Oddsocks Productions, is their groundbreaking 2014 musical adaptation of
"Twelfth Night"