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January 29, 2021|Health & Wellbeing

Can you sponsor a £20 backpack?

We are supporting an initiative by WomenCentre to create emergency back packs for women arriving at refuges in Calderdale and Kirklees. Pressure on services supporting victims of domestic violence has never been greater and those first few hours and days away from home can be daunting. We are coordinating a local campaign to create backpacks filled with care products and essentials to see them through the first few days. Each backpack of essentials has a cost price of £20. We’re looking for lo

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January 28, 2021|Health & Wellbeing

Tips for home-schooling parents

Jayne Little - CEO, Skills 4 Ltd As a single parent, I know what a challenge it can be to strike a good balance between work and parenting at the best of times; homeschooling has taken that challenge to a whole new level! Here are my sanity tips for working parents; I truly hope you find them helpful! 1 Compartmentalise your role. I love being a parent and I love my job too! It’s fantastic to have two hats; I just need to remember to wear one hat at a time. Trying to read work emails whilst ta

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January 28, 2021|Business

IoD appoints education and skills ambassador for Yorkshire and North East

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed Suzanne Withrington to the role of education and skills ambassador for Yorkshire and the North East. Suzanne is principal lecturer for enterprise and business engagement at Teesside University Business School. As education and skills ambassador, she will connect directors with education providers and provide a regional voice to the IoD’s work with colleges and universities. The IoD has welcomed the Government’s new Skills for Jobs White Paper whic

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January 28, 2021|Health & Wellbeing

An ancient practice

What is Aromatherapy? Aromatherapy is an ancient practice that uses fragrance oils to engage your sense of smell and promote overall good health. It derives its fragrances from natural sources such as plants, flowers, barks, leaves, and even roots; and its effects are dependent on the ingredients or compounds used. For instance, lavender is used for stress relief as it is known to stimulate calm and relaxation; lemon and peppermint, on the other hand, are thought to have antibacterial and antiv

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January 28, 2021|Lifestyle

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Author: Beth Brown I’ve been thinking a lot about being scared recently. When I experienced anxiety in late 2019 and early 2020, my biggest fear became falling back into that state. It seemed to come from nowhere and it hit me like a truck. Suddenly, my greatest fear was fear itself and no matter how hard I tried to convinced myself that it was irrational, the seemingly impromptu nature of the anxiety only increased my fear of it coming back because I couldn’t work out why it had popped in to

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January 28, 2021|Business

NatWest doubles Female Entrepreneurship Funding to £2bn to support UK’s recovery

NatWest has announced an additional £1 billion in funding to help support female-led businesses in the UK recover from the coronavirus. The aim is to ultimately help female entrepreneurs scale and grow, and builds on the £1bn announced last January, which was the largest intervention by a UK lender focused specifically on female-led businesses. The bank has also committed to help create an additional 35,000 new businesses in the UK by the end of 2021, focusing its efforts on underrepresented gr

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January 27, 2021|Lifestyle

Garden jobs for February

Author: Martin Blunn February is the month hopefully were the weather changes and as a result is the time for pruning the tree fruits other than those soft fruit with stones. Cane fruit and bush fruit like raspberries, blackberries. Blackcurrants and redcurrants should also be pruned at the same time. If you are unsure on how to prune use resources like the royal horticultural society to determine based on the style you’ve selected and the age of the tree, cane or bush. General principle for bu

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January 27, 2021|Business

Internal promotion at Multitask Personnel as technical team grows

Multitask Personnel, the Rotherham based specialist recruitment consultancy, have expanded their technical division with an internal promotion. Kimberley Earl, who has been with the business since 2019 has moved over from a resourcing position into a recruitment consultant role within the firms growing technical sector, which is still thriving despite the covid-19 pandemic. Overseeing all aspects of blue collar recruitment across building trades and M&E, Kimberley will be using her experience g

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January 26, 2021|Business

Yorkshire interior business celebrates prestigious appointment

Leeds-based business joins Ralph Lauren as handpicked stockist to global interiors company Yorkshire-based luxury homewares brand, Adriana Homewares, is celebrating its appointment as stockist to prestigious global interior lifestyle company ‘LuxDeco’ this January. LuxDeco is the go-to online interiors company for highly curated, luxury leading brands that provide the world’s most beautiful home decor. Adriana Homewares will sit alongside global brands such as Ralph Lauren, a phenomenal achiev

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January 26, 2021|EditorsBlog

Second issue launches

I am excited to announce that the second edition of Yorkshire Businesswoman launches this weekend and once again the response has been phenominal. Our cover features Dame Linda Pollard who is chair of the NHS Trust in Leeds, this is a must read article as Linda has had a career that will inspire everyone. As well as Linda, we once again feature a number of talented and inspirational women from our region, along with fashion, beauty and hot tips. Two new features launch too, 'What's in your hand

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January 26, 2021|Yorkshire-Kitchen

A simple, healthy lunch

Looking for a recipe for a quick and healthy lunch whilst working from home today? Why not try this one out - it is packed full nutrients, simple to prepare and appealing to the eye. Stuffed vegetarian peppers Ingredients Serves: 4 • 100g rice (long grain or basmati) • 4 peppers, any colour • oil for frying • 1 onion, finely chopped • 100g mushrooms, roughly chopped • 400g tin mixed beans • 400g tin chopped tomatoes • salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas 6. Cook rice in bo

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January 25, 2021|Business

New head of learning and development joins Leeds Building Society

Leeds Building Society has appointed a new head of learning and development to support colleague growth. Kate Fisher takes up the position after more than 20 years’ experience in human resources, talent and training operations roles. Kate most recently held the role of senior director of talent and capability at Asda, having previously worked at WM Morrisons, Aviva, Goldman Sachs International and KPMG. Drawing on extensive experience in leadership development, talent and performance managemen

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