Business Brighouse welded mesh manufacturer launches bespoke training programme Welded steel mesh manufacturer Siddall and Hilton Products is celebrating the success of a new, bespoke training programme it has developed as part of its ongoing recruitment drive. With six new starters having already joined the long-established business since January, it is currently looking for another three people to train By The Editor • 3 min read
Business Leeds-based ddroidd launches A+++ efficiency framework Leeds-based digital transformation and technical specialists, ddroidd, has launched a pioneering new A+++ efficiency framework that will significantly reduce a website’s energy consumption, save money, improve reliability and responsibility for businesses. ddroidd’s A+++ solution guarantees to reduce hosting costs within six months. The new framework can cut information By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Doncaster Sheffield Airport joins Travel Day of Action Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) is joining trade bodies and associations from across the aviation and travel industries to support the ‘Travel Day of Action’ on 23 June, asking the UK Government to support a safe return to international travel in time for the peak summer period. Led by travel and By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Acumen receives the 2021 RoSPA Winner of the Waste Management & Recycling Sector Award Acumen Waste Services Ltd (Acumen), headquartered in Yorkshire, is celebrating after landing an internationally recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards over the past 12 months. Acumen received the coveted Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Winner of the Waste Management and Recycling Sector Award for By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Kirklees College announces June Virtual Open Days Kirklees College has announced details of the next round of Virtual Open Days to be held in June to support prospective students and applicants considering their next steps. Open to Year 11 students, parents and carers and applicants, the Virtual Open Days will take place over two days on Tuesday By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Vapour launches Technology as a Service (TaaS) Disruptive cloud specialist Vapour has launched a new Technology as a Service (TaaS) proposition, as the progressive firm continues its commitment to aiding the digital transformation of businesses large and small. With TaaS commonly perceived as merely a lease plan for hardware and software procurement, there is far more to By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Landscape supplier Green-tech digs deep to help school Boroughbridge-based Green-tech is the UKs largest supplier of professional landscaping supplies and has stepped in to donate topsoil for a community growing project at New Park Primary Academy on Skipton Road. Part of the Northern Star Academies Trust, the school has landscaped part of their playing field to create an By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Fun ways to introduce kids to programming and coding Coding became part of the UK’s computing curriculum in 2014 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/04/coding-school-computing-children-programming] , with children as young as five being taught programming skills. Since then, there has been a real push towards this new-look syllabus for pupils in primary and secondary schools – and By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Housebuilder signs Armed Forces Covenant Homebuilder Keepmoat Homes has signed an Armed Forces Covenant in a virtual ceremony – it is a commitment from the Doncaster-based company to support former and current serving military personnel in the workplace. The Armed Forces Covenant was signed with the head of reserve, Commodore Martin Quinns and commits Keepmoat Homes By The Editor • 3 min read
Business New director and 22,000sq ft warehouse for Bigvits The trend for buying online vitamins and supplements continues unabated as Yorkshire retailer and distributor Bigvits appoints a new non-exec director and grows into a new 22,000sq ft Driffield distribution centre. Industry heavyweight Richard Millman, who advises and works with various brands across the health and wellbeing sector, joins By The Editor • 1 min read
Business CPP secures double leases for industrial unit in Sheffield Specialist property consultants, Commercial Property Partners and joint agents MJB Commercial Property have completed the letting of two industrial units based at Savile Business Park in Sheffield. CPP advised on converting the single industrial warehouse, situated just one mile from Sheffield City Centre, into three smaller units, which were to By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Eddisons invests in new talent with three student placements Property consultant Eddisons has appointed three placement-year students from the BSc building surveying courses at Sheffield Hallam and Northumbria universities. Third-year students Samuel Pearson and George Greenwood-Bartlett are both at Sheffield Hallam while Eleanor Kent is at Northumbria. All three have joined the firm’s growing building and project consultancy By The Editor • 1 min read
