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April 2, 2021|Business

Self-taught Bradford artist announced as Leeds Playhouse's new resident designer

Set designer and miniature model-maker Warda Abbasi has been announced as the new resident designer at Leeds Playhouse. This is a year-long role in partnership with Leeds-based theatre company tutti frutti, supported by the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme. After completing a degree in mathematics, Bradford-based Warda worked in the box office at Square Chapel in Halifax, which gave her the opportunity to watch lots of theatre while honing her model-making skills in her spare time. S

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March 31, 2021|Business

Magpie appoints new MD and creative and behavioural science change makers

Yorkshire’s award winning creative behaviour change agency, Magpie, has appointed Kim Somerville as managing director to take forward an ambitious plan to make more positive social change and be the leading champions of unheard voices. She is joined by new creative director, Rose Mountague formally creative director at Epiphany (now Jaywing) and Dr Gráinne Dickerson, an experienced health psychologist as the new behavioural insights consultant. This new senior team is tasked with inspiring more

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March 31, 2021|Business

Floral gifting blooms in Leeds

In the era of social distancing and rolling lockdowns, people are finding new ways to connect with each other, with personalised floral gifts on the rise. New research from online florist, Flowercard, shows that people in Leeds are connecting more than anywhere else in the UK, with an exponential rise in residents sending floral gifts. Flowercard has seen sales bloom across the UK, with a 63% rise in ‘no occasion’ and ‘any occasion’ gifting between 2019 and 2020. Within that, Leeds had a 297%

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March 31, 2021|Business

Unknown Yorkshire female sport stars celebrated in unique illustrated card game

Stephanie Park and Dorothy Hyman may not be household names to many, but their historic sporting achievements have seen them immortalised in a newly illustrated children’s card game, available to download for free. The creative resource is part of the Hidden Histories Illustrated project that involves Leeds based, social enterprise Sporting Heritage working in partnership with freelance illustrator and education consultant, Jessica Hartshorn on the Arts Council England funded initiative to cele

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March 12, 2021|Business

New five year plan for Leeds Kirkgate Market

Senior councillors in Leeds will be asked to back a five-year strategy to future-proof the much loved Leeds Kirkgate Market at an executive board meeting on Wednesday 17 March. The proposed Leeds Kirkgate Market Strategy 2021-2026 sets out how the market will manage the impact and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and adapt to the ever changing retail climate in order to remain a sustainable and attractive retail destination. If approved, the council will collaborate with market traders, the

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March 11, 2021|Business

Experienced head of people bolsters Force24’s leadership team

Force24 has appointed senior HR professional Helen Charlesworth to prioritise employee engagement, company culture and in-house processes, ensuring the business is an “employer of choice” for emerging tech talent. Excited by organisational challenges and opportunities that marketing automation platform Force24 presents, Helen can draw on her experience as the former head of HR for sustainable modular home start up, ilke Homes. Despite being the enterprise’s first ever employee in 2017, she was

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March 8, 2021|Business

Northern Power Women celebrate their annual awards ceremony

On Monday 8 March inspirational women and men from all over the North came together virtually to celebrate this year’s Northern Power Women Awards. The Awards celebrate the incredible achievements of women and men working together to accelerate gender diversity across the North and on a global scale and serve to re-connect us all after a year of lockdown, social distancing, and working from home. This year’s awards have witnessed a record-breaking 1480 nominations, and had over 900 people in a

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March 8, 2021|Business

Foundations of opportunity: how construction can embrace the female workforce

Construction has a reputation as an industry which has done little to address the shortfall in its female workforce, but there is evidence of positive change and huge potential for further progress in the coming years. Katherine Naisbitt, Commercial Director at C80 Group, discusses the challenges and the opportunities for women in construction. Having worked in various other sectors, from manufacturing and waste management to recruitment and consulting, I somewhat stumbled into construction by

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March 8, 2021|Business

Senior matrimonial finance barrister joins Leeds Parklane Plowden Chambers

Parklane Plowden Chambers (PLP) has announced that nationally renowned matrimonial finance barrister, Francesca Fothergill, has joined the set. Francesca, who was called to the Bar in 1994, joins the Leeds and Newcastle-based chambers from St Philips Chambers, where she was joint head of the family finance team. She practices across all aspects of matrimonial finance provision, with an emphasis on high-value cases. These often involve contested business valuations, complex trust and tax struct

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March 8, 2021|Business

New era begins at popular Huddersfield Nursery & Forest School

A manager at one of Huddersfield’s leading private day nurseries has stepped down after 25 years. Samantha Richmond leaves Oakwood House Nursery & Forest School in Edgerton to be replaced by experienced childcare professional Gail Howarth. Oakwood House is part of the Portland Nurseries group which has four sites across Lindley, Edgerton and Birkby. Samantha joined in 1996 working with then owner and founder Rosemary Murphy OBE, who founded the National Day Nurseries Association. Samantha help

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March 5, 2021|Business

Specialist Yorkshire legal practice celebrates third Birthday with positive growth

Leeds-based employment law specialist practice Thrive Law – headed up by solicitor and leading mental health campaigner Jodie Hill – is celebrating its third birthday, hot on the heels of experiencing a surge in enquiries as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and following Jodie’s active media presence as the go to expert for employment law. The firm’s recent successes clearly demonstrate a strong regional and national need for high calibre specialist employment and HR legal advice, driven by c

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March 4, 2021|Business

Celebrate 15 Years of Gliterary Lunches

It's World Book Day today, International Women's Day on Monday, Mother's Day a week on Sunday and Gliterary Lunches' 15th Birthday at the end of the month. Could there be a better time to celebrate good books and sparky women in the excellent company of fellow Gliterary Lunchers? Why not join them. On the last Thursday of each month, you can enjoy lunch with an award-winning author from the comfort of your own home or office and invite your friends, family, clients and colleagues too. Simply f

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