Leaders of Derby secondary Alvaston Moor Academy have warmly thanked organisations in the area for supporting its first ever work experience week, which has been hailed an unprecedented success.
Around 60 year 10 students aged 14 and 15 at the academy on Bracken’s Lane were given the opportunity to get a taste of the workplace during the week starting on May 22.
The CEO of Derbyshire’s specialist child exploitation charity has marked National Volunteering Week (June 1-7) by highlighting the benefits to both charities and individuals.
Tracy Harrison heads Safe and Sound and has also spent her adult life volunteering for organisations and charities.
The charity is supported by a team of people who give up their time voluntarily and unpaid to enable Safe and Sound to protect and support young people and their families whose lives are affected by child exploitation.
We are so excited to be holding our 19th Day of Dance which will be held on Saturday 24 June, filling our picturesque town again with music and dance from around the world.
The Day heralds the start of Bakewell Carnival Week, along with the Farmers Market and with local well dressings on show, it is a day out not to miss. So
join the several thousand people who travel from around the country to enjoy the dancing, colour and fun.
Tickets for the Derby Choral Union's Singing Day on Saturday 10th June are selling fast, and there are just a few more days left to buy yours as sales close this Saturday. With over 110 tickets already sold and just 130 places, time is running out if you want to join us, so hurry!
Timms Solicitors have announced three key appointments across the firm to support its on-going growth.
Marketing manager Sharon Jeffery and Finance and Systems manager Ali Jodiyawalla have both been promoted to Senior Associate. Wills and Probate solicitor Matt Kelly has also been promoted to Associate after completing Timms’ bespoke Pathways career development programme.
Managing partner Fiona Moffat explained: “Everyone at Timms has a personalised career development plan and we are fully committed to supporting individual’s aspirations and goals.
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.
Derby College has been offering its services to a Derby life-changing local charity, Jericho House for twenty years. Jericho House is a nine-Bed residential addiction recovery project, based in Alvaston, Derby that provides a holistic approach to drug addiction with elements of housing support and resettlement.
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’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.