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The latest news from producers, makers, venues and events organisers from around Derby and Derbyshire. If you have news to add to this page, then email us to let us know about it: editor@madeinderbyshire.org
 

Your Search For Business Networking in Bakewell Is Over!

Business Networking in Bakewell is something that has been really, really needed judging by the enthusiastic response by attendees. So we are delighted to announce the next two face-to-face networking dates for your diaries. Join us on 31 May and 21 June in beautiful Bakewell!

For those of you who’ve attended the first two business networking sessions in Bakewell, you will know the score by now. We are now seeking to reach out to as many new people as possible to come to our next two dates that have just been announced.

Three work colleagues take on non-stop 55-mile Derbyshire Heritage Way walk for lifesaving charity

 

Three work colleagues are challenging themselves to the max by taking on a non-stop 55-mile heritage walk through Derbyshire to raise money for St John Ambulance.

 

Married couple Claire and Tim Hollingshurst and their work colleague Rich Trevatt, who all work at science company Lubrizol’s UK headquarters in Hazelwood, will be walking all 55 miles of the Derwent Valley Heritage Way next month, without stopping.

 

The trio are going the distance in aid of St John Ambulance, named by Lubrizol as its UK-wide charity earlier this year.

Derbyshire marketing company owner backs Kate Winslet’s social media call-out amid growing concerns for teenage mental health

The director of a Derbyshire social marketing agency who is working to help families navigate children’s mobile phone use has praised Kate Winslet for her impassioned Bafta acceptance speech highlighting the dangers of social media.

Anna Hutton, marketing director of MacMartin, an award-winning Derbyshire social marketing agency, has been delivering talks to teenagers in secondary schools aimed at helping them take back control of their social media consumption.

New Ambassadors Fly The Flag For Safe and Sound

Derbyshire’s specialist child exploitation charity, Safe and Sound, has recruited more local people to help raise awareness of the dangers facing vulnerable children and young people.

Entrepreneurs Persha Ward and Nadia Jane Asamoah as well as University of Derby lecturer Bev Crighton and marketing specialist Claire Morrison have become official ambassadors for the charity.

Mother-of-two Persha Ward runs her own business administration business S&A Management and was supported by Safe and Sound as a teenager.

Lonsdale Pool Re-opens After Vital Repairs

A long-established swimming pool in a Derby suburb will re-open on Friday May 19 after more than three months of disruption which, staff feared, could spell the end of the road for the popular community facility.

Lonsdale Pool in Bishop Lonsdale Way in Mickleover, was built around 50 years ago and was owned by the University of Derby until it was taken on by Lonsdale Swimming & Sports Trust in 2007 after the surrounding land was sold for housing.

Derby College student cements his place in national bricklaying competition

A Derby College student has a place in the final of a bricklaying competition after he was crowned regional winner.

Matthew Woolley, from Alvaston, Derby. came top of the senior category in the Guild of Bricklayers competition, which was held at Ilkeston Community College, part of the Derby College Group (DCG).

The 21-year-old who studies at Ilkeston is in his 2nd year of bricklaying training, having started back in 2021.

He has recently embarked on an apprenticeship with Major Oak, Design and Construction.

Derby College student cements his place in national bricklaying competition

A Derby College student has a place in the final of a bricklaying competition after he was crowned regional winner.

Matthew Woolley, from Alvaston, Derby. came top of the senior category in the Guild of Bricklayers competition, which was held at Ilkeston Community College, part of the Derby College Group (DCG).

The 21-year-old who studies at Ilkeston is in his 2nd year of bricklaying training, having started back in 2021.

He has recently embarked on an apprenticeship with Major Oak, Design and Construction.

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