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Youbee Media find solutions for ambitious business owners to enrich their marketing. With plans to be the top agency offering support in Yorkshire, Youbee are certainly off to a flying start.
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Sporting Heritage CIC, the national organisation leading the charge on promoting and protecting British sporting heritage collections and stories, has announced global Vietnamese LGBTQ+ sports and human rights advocate Amazin LeThi as a Sporting Heritage Ambassador to raise the profile of East Asian and LGBTQ+ sporting heritage. Amazin is an athlete, published author and cultural change leader born in Saigon and now divides her time between London and the USA. As an award-winning bodybuilder a
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PR and communication specialist, Wild PR, has been appointed to drive PR for Fertility Matters At Work (FMAW), a community interest company dedicated to educating and inspiring businesses with an awareness of how fertility issues affects both their employees and their organisation. The agency’s objective is to drive brand awareness and increase online visibility for FMAW’s offering by implementing a bespoke and purposeful communications strategy, and delivering tactics to increase the number o
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As part of its centenary celebrations in 2022, Bentham Golf Club in the Yorkshire Dales is making a bid to attract more women into the sport. The club reports a continuing rise in female members – but says it is now making efforts to try and help accelerate the trend nationally. Local businessman Thomas Marshall, who rescued Bentham's club from near-liquidation 15 years ago, believes the issue of gender balance needs to be addressed. Now he has joined the campaign by England Golf, the gove
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Global SME funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Marion King as non-executive director as it continues to work towards its ambitious growth strategy. An accomplished leader with more than 25 years’ experience across the financial services sector, Marion has held senior executive roles with NatWest Group, Mastercard, Vocalink and Reuters, in addition to non-executive directorships with Low Carbon Contracts Company and commodity price reporting agency, Fastmarkets. Her most rece
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World Breastfeeding Week takes place in the first week of August and provides a great opportunity for employers to ask themselves if they are doing enough to support new mothers returning to the workplace. Employers who actively offer reasonable adjustments are confirming that they are a family friendly organisation which will, in turn, make recruiting and retention easier. Kate Palmer, HR Advice & Consultancy Director at Peninsula, discusses the simple and cost-effective solutions available
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Wilkinson Woodward Solicitors has announced two new appointments to its expanding legal practice. Property solicitor Afreen Mhar, 33, began her legal career after graduating and completing her Legal Practice Course at the University of Huddersfield. Since then, she has retained close ties with the University’s Law School where she mentors the next generation of legal professionals. Afreen specialises in all aspects of residential conveyancing, including property sales, purchases, re-mortgages
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Huddersfield-based PR and marketing agency Wild PR has been shortlisted for the Best Use of Content award at this year’s CIPR PRide Awards. The creative agency has been shortlisted for its reactive PR campaign on behalf of its glass manufacturing client, Specialist Glass Products based on Netflix’s Squid Game. The PRide awards recognise the outstanding work and campaigns from the public relations industry over the last 12 months. Agencies and in-house teams are honoured, as well as campaign
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Kickstart your summer with a brand new menu from Harvey Nichols. Launching this week at the Briggate store’s fourth floor brasserie, the summer dining menu is a perfect combination of the freshest seasonal ingredients sitting alongside a delicious drinks menu. Created by Head Chef Lee Heptinstall, diners can enjoy an a la carte menu of international dishes, including beef tartare with chimichurri, charred lamb leg with a Greek salad or pan fried halloumi with a courgette and mint puree. A Su
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The Women and Equalities Committee says a lack of support for women going through menopause in the UK is responsible for a mass exodus from work of women in their 50’s. In fact, women who suffer with at least one problematic menopausal symptom are almost 43% more likely to leave their careers. Research indicates that it’s mainly down to the stigma associated with menopause which prevents women from requesting reasonable adjustments that would otherwise enable them to remain in their roles.
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What better way to celebrate Yorkshire Day than to enjoy fantastic food and imbibe incredible cocktails at some of Leeds’ best restaurants. With offers throughout the first week of August, there’s plenty of time to indulge in their truly memorable menus accompanied by a portion of county pride. Crafthouse The Michelin-guide recommended restaurant, unveiled a beautiful make-over just in time for summer, bringing the outside in with its incredible green oasis. The open kitchen and marble counte
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The TANDi is a new luxury tanning brush which was launched during the pandemic by a tan aficionado and entrepreneur from Yorkshire. The TANDi is a chunky, high gloss wonder that has been designed specifically to apply fake tan, body makeup and shimmer, it is a must have beauty tool for full body glam. This is a premium quality brush, made with sustainable, cruelty free materials. The densely packed bristles hold the product on the brush head with less absorption, meaning that less tan is waste
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