News from producers around Derbyshire

Are You A Small Business Owner In The Derbyshire Dales? Meet Your MP & Share Your Views

On 30 November 2020, the Federation of Small Businesses will be hosting a roundtable event enabling Derbyshire Dales based businesses to speak directly with Sarah Dines MP, the elected Member Of Parliament for the Derbyshire Dales.

Helen Wathall MBE has won the title of Family Business Director of the Year in the prestigious Midlands Institute of Directors annual awards.

Helen is the fifth generation of her family to run Wathall’s which is Derby’s longest established independent funeral directors - established since 1858 - and now also has branches in Ashbourne, Alvaston, Borrowash and Burton.

She was appointed Managing Director after the death of her father Bill Wathall and has recently been joined in the business by her daughters Bec and Charlotte.

Marketing Derby is calling on up-and-coming entrepreneurs to enter its annual Rising Star competition, whi

Due to the ongoing Covid restrictions this year’s Luminate cannot go ahead as a lantern parade around Derby’s wonderful Arboretum. The organisers, The Friends of Derby Arboretum, following on from their summer festival success via Zoom and YouTube will be organising the celebration online.

In partnership with the county's district and borough councils we're launching a new way for Derbyshire communities to browse, book and buy local online, as part of a scheme to support towns and villages across the county.

Karen Lucas-Hughes has won the Writing East Midlands Aurora prize for the attached poem, “Bathing”.

Adult Community Education Centres will remain open during the November lockdown and will continue to deliver learning. Many courses are now delivered online or remotely via Zoom, including the exciting courses with new creative writing tutor Laura Stroud.

We’ve all felt stuck. Spending hours staring at a blank page. Watching the cursor torment us with its unending, repetitive blink. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This workshop will kick-start your imagination as we explore where writer’s block comes from and how you can overcome it. This is an online workshop delivered live via Zoom. This session was previously delivered as part of the Buxton Fringe Festival and is a repeat session.  

Date: Monday 7th December, 2020.  

Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm  

Price - £12 

Alex Davis is offering a Google Meet workshop aimed at helping you take your novel forward on 2nd December, What Next for your Novel?

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-next-for-your-novel-with-alex-davis-tickets-124431841989