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Spotlight On – Louise Santaana, Owner and Managing Director at Board Assist Ltd
Spotlight On – Louise Santaana, Owner and Managing Director at Board Assist Ltd

Louise has extensive leadership and financial services experience. She supports businesses and leaders to become more successful through strategic planning, coaching and strong leadership. She currently runs Board Assist Ltd, a consultancy business and holds NED positions and is a trustee for a charity. Tell us a…

Sheffield manufacturer set for growth following acquisition of new site
Sheffield manufacturer set for growth following acquisition of new site

A long-standing, family-owned Sheffield manufacturing business is set to create a super site following the successful purchase of a new site. Tufcot, which is based on Coleford Road in Darnall, has purchased a neighbouring site on Catley Road. The acquisition will enable the business to separate its manufacturing…

Registration open for 2024 Two Castles Run
Registration open for 2024 Two Castles Run

Registration for the 2024 Two Castles Run is now open as the popular event also waves goodbye and says thank you to a legendary figure. The unique annual fundraising run, which is once again sponsored by Leamington Spa solicitors Blythe Liggins and is celebrating 40 successful years, will see participants tackle the…

Spotlight On – Christina Darling, Founder and Co-Owner at Prime Mix Marketing Ltd
Spotlight On – Christina Darling, Founder and Co-Owner at Prime Mix Marketing Ltd

Christina Darling is the Founder and Co-Owner of multi-award-winning Prime Mix Marketing Ltd which is a strategic marketing agency for business owners in SME to large B2B organisations, in the Technical, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Defence Sectors. She helps them raise their profile through extensive strategic…

Talbots Law agrees new Bears shirt sponsor deal
Talbots Law agrees new Bears shirt sponsor deal

Midlands-based Talbots Law have cemented its commercial partnership with Edgbaston after signing a new deal to continue as the Birmingham Bears’ front-of-shirt sponsor. Talbots Law, which has 11 offices across the region, has been the Official Legal Partner at Edgbaston and the Lead Partner of the Bears for the last…

Innovative investment keeps 3,300 people facing homelessness out of temporary accommodation
Innovative investment keeps 3,300 people facing homelessness out of temporary accommodation

Innovative approach saves taxpayer £140m in ten years. Safe accommodation increases tenant wellbeing, delivering £17,500 in wellbeing benefits per person. Big Society Capital is calling on a future Government to grow use of the approach – which could quadruple impact, housing 23,750 people. Many local authorities…

Pebbles expands commitment to transforming lives with acquisition
Pebbles expands commitment to transforming lives with acquisition

Residential childcare specialist Pebbles has revealed its acquisition of BDT Care Solutions, which operates four homes for children and young people in South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway. The deal sees Pebbles, which is one of the UK’s leading providers of therapeutic and bespoke residential care, further…

Spotlight On – Becky Davies, Director & Founder of Ten Locks & Pod Pea Vodka
Spotlight On – Becky Davies, Director & Founder of Ten Locks & Pod Pea Vodka

Becky is the Director of Ten Locks Drinks, a premium spirit importer and distributor championing the best brands from all over the world and those that are striving for positive change. In March 2023 she launched her first own brand Pod Pea Vodka, a sustainable quintessentially British Vodka made from peas, that…

Why Myles has blind ambition for his new business
Why Myles has blind ambition for his new business

One of Chaddesden’s best known businesses is under new ownership after a member of staff bought the firm saving it from closure.  Carpenter Myles Hayhurst, 31, had been working for Castle Blinds, in Nottingham Road, for three years when its owners decided to put it up for sale after running the store for 26 years.…

The hidden carbon footprint of your website
The hidden carbon footprint of your website

Reducing energy consumption, limiting travel emissions, becoming a paperless operation and recycling equipment are some of the key measures businesses take to become a low-carbon or carbon-free operation. Yet few realise their website has a big role to play in sustainability, too. Latest figures from environmental…