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March 30, 2023|Business

Employee-owned corporate finance firm makes double promotion

Award-winning fds Director Services has confirmed the promotion of Rachel Gill to commercial manager and Gemma Dickinson to practice manager. Both will continue to support CEO Poonam Kaur and chairman Jo Haigh as the business continues to grow. Based in Yorkshire, but delivering services nationwide, fds provides services to owner-managed businesses, supporting them on their business journey from the early stages through to a successful exit. Rachel Gill, who has been with the business for e

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March 30, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire’s Fab Four on a mission to help women discover their Midlife Magic

FOUR iconic Yorkshire women are putting the “middle years” in the spotlight this autumn in a special event aimed at sharing their own experiences with hundreds of other women. Find Your Midlife Magic will take place on Tuesday October 3rd in the stunning surroundings of Goldsborough Hall near Knaresborough. The event is headed by four inspirational women, three of whom are Yorkshire Businesswoman members, who are all in the public eye and have all faced the challenge of the “middle years.”

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March 30, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Spring has sprung at Victoria Leeds

* Victoria Leeds has partnered with Opera North to offer a truly unique and enchanting experience with As You Are: Soundwalk 2023. * Victoria Leeds has created an eye-catching sustainable window display that perfectly captures the season in Yorkshire. * Moda Furnishings launch pop-up showroom in Victoria Quarter. * Victoria Leeds award-winning car park launches touch free Drive-In, Drive-Out parking. Luxury lifestyle destination Victoria Leeds is stepping into spring in a suitably stylish

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March 30, 2023|Travel and Environment

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is revealed as the new home for Wakefield’s famous mulberry bush

A 19th-century tree thought to have inspired a well-known English nursery rhyme has been saved from extinction by horticultural experts and gifted to Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The famous mulberry bush was originally planted over two hundred years ago within the walls of HMP Wakefield. However, back in 2017, the much-loved tree, considered by many to be the origin of the nursery rhyme ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’, was found to be riddled with a beetle infestation and canker – sign

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March 30, 2023|Health & Wellbeing

The North’s largest independent menopause conference announced

The North’s largest independent conference dedicated to all things menopause and perimenopause is coming to Halifax this spring. The Menopause Live event is being held at the Victoria Theatre on Thursday 27 April between 9.30am – 3.30pm and will be headlined by Diane Danzebrink, the founder of Menopause Support and the national #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign. The conference is the largest independent menopause conference in the North of England and is set to banish the menopause taboo and edu

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March 29, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Former teacher writes new career chapter

A former textiles teacher with a passion for utilising traditional skills to create hand-painted fabric signs has launched her own business to supply unique backdrops for events. Sheffield-based Charlotte Scott was inspired to establish Sparrow and Thistle after herself finding it difficult to order bespoke textile signage for her own wedding last autumn. The entrepreneur, a former textiles teacher at Bolsover School, is utilising practical techniques honed during her fashion design and text

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March 28, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Tingley garden centre celebrates its first gardening season with a spring launch weekend

A Tingley garden centre is celebrating springtime and its first gardening season with a celebration launch weekend next month. On the 1st and 2nd of April, visitors to Tingley Garden Centre will be able to see the changes that owners, Yorkshire Garden Centres, have made since it opened in September and get 15% off plants, garden furniture, gifts and selected food and drink from Hearty's Food Hall. Tingley Garden Centre manager, Paul Adams is looking forward to the event: "This is the first s

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March 28, 2023|Business

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School to provide additional bursaries thanks to alumni gift of over £1million

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School to provide additional bursaries thanks to alumni gift of over £1million Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) has announced it will be able to provide additional bursaries to students as a result of a generous gift of over £1m left by Anthea Denton, wife of Anthony Albert Denton, Old Savilian and Former Head Boy. Anthony Denton sadly passed away in 2001, however, his wife has fulfilled his wishes to leave half of the residual estate to QEGS, requesting that it

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March 28, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Sheffield’s new city centre park set to open this Easter

Sheffield City Centre’s brand-new public space, Pound’s Park, is set to open early to the public on 3 April, so that the new park can be enjoyed over the Easter weekend and school holidays. Named after Sheffield’s first chief fire officer, Superintendent John Charles Pound, the park is located on the former fire station site between Rockingham Street, Wellington Street and Carver Street, and will offer a multitude of experiences, including spaces for play, relaxation and socialising. With fa

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March 28, 2023|Business

Wakefield Girls High School announces empowHER conference

The event, which will deliver empowering messages to girls aged 10, comes to the school on the 23rd June 2023. Wakefield Girls High School (WGHS) has announced the launch of its new #empowHER conference, to be held on the 23rd June. The event is for girls aged 10 and will deliver a powerful empowering message from a range of speakers from the world of business. empowHER is chaired by WGHS old girl and head of marketing for Amazon and Prime Video Lizz Wainwright, and the speakers are: Sophi

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March 28, 2023|Business

Leeds College of Building principal joins CEO Sleepout

The principal and CEO of Leeds College of Building has joined a growing list of senior managers taking part in CEO Sleepout. Nikki Davis, the first female principal in the history of Leeds College of Building, will be sleeping under the stars to raise awareness of homelessness across the UK and reach a donation target of £1,000 for charity. Nikki is the only senior manager from the Further Education sector currently registered to participate in the Leeds CEO Sleepout. CEO Sleepout Leeds wi

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March 28, 2023|Fashion and Lifestyle

Be inspired to take your look from rut to rocking at This is Yorkshire Beauty Event

This is Yorkshire Beauty Week is taking place in May this year, when a host of events will take place 22-26 in Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and York celebrating the region’s love of all things beauty. Created by Yorkshire Businesswomen member, Dr Lubna Khan-Salim the aim of the week is to put the spotlight on the key issues and topics that are important to women of today: representation in beauty, sustainability, health and wellbeing, and aesthetics. One of the events planned, supported by Yorks

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