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Worcestershire celebrates outstanding success at Annual Apprenticeship Awards
Worcestershire celebrated its commitment to developing local talent and skills at the 2025 Worcestershire Apprenticeships Awards on Thursday 13 November. Now in their eleventh year of the Apprenticeships Awards, the 2025 celebrations continued to recognise the amazing...
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Worcestershire celebrates outstanding success at Annual Apprenticeship Awards
Worcestershire celebrated its commitment to developing local talent and skills at the 2025 Worcestershire Apprenticeships Awards on Thursday 13 November. Now in their eleventh year of the Apprenticeships Awards, the 2025 celebrations continued to recognise the amazing...
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Worcester Based Recruitment Firm Sees 60% Growth in Roles
Worcester-based Four Squared Recruitment has achieved a 60% growth in retained recruitment work throughout 2024, providing a much-needed boost to the slowing recruitment market. By prioritising a retained search model and committing to partnerships that go beyond...
New Strategic Member – Greensafe IT
Greensafe IT specialise in offering secure, sustainable and environmentally responsible IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) and lifecycle services. Their goal; to help businesses efficiently manage their IT estates from cradle to grave; ensuring full data security and...
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Former Cabinet Minister Launches University of Worcester Levelling Up Report
Former Cabinet Minister, the Rt. Hon. Justine Greening, has formally launched the University of Worcester’s new Levelling Up report during a special visit to the City. Ms Greening delivered a talk at The Hive on Tuesday as part of the HiveAt10 celebrations. Her talk,...
Graduate Appointed to England Basketball Coaching Role
A University of Worcester graduate has been appointed to a coaching role in the national basketball programme, helping to develop talented young players. Charlie Haynes is now the Basketball England Under 15 Girls Assistant Coach, working within the England Talent...
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BCC: Businesses ‘hung out to dry’ without answers in event of unwanted ‘no deal’
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today published a list of twenty critical questions that remain unanswered for business in the unwelcome event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on March 29. With less than 50 days to go until the UK is scheduled to...
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BCC: Businesses ‘hung out to dry’ without answers in event of unwanted ‘no deal’
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today published a list of twenty critical questions that remain unanswered for business in the unwelcome event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on March 29. With less than 50 days to go until the UK is scheduled to...
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Harvest Festival to support Stourbridge Age Concern and Kidderminster Food Bank
Students at Kidderminster’s Holy Trinity School and Sixth Form Centre donated Harvest gifts to Age Concern Stourbridge & Halesowen and Kidderminster Food Bank as part of this year’s Harvest celebrations. Donating a selection of food products, Headteacher, Mrs...
Rental company nominated for ‘Family Business of the Year’ award
Powered access rental company, GTAccess, has been shortlisted as one of the finalists at this year’s Birmingham Business Excellence Awards for the category of ‘Family Business of the Year’. The company started life nearly 40 years ago as a small, family run,...
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Worcestershire Area Council – May 2022
Business Sector Updates Charity and Social Care Difficulty recruiting skilled people ranging from health and safety professionals to skilled trades and accountants etc. People are not even showing up for interviews! On a positive note, this is forcing us to invest...
Herefordshire Area Council – May 2022
Business Sector Updates Science Market conditions are currently buoyant with good levels of opportunities and demand. Recruitment is proving challenging with many job vacancies, although specialist science is particularly hard to recruit to. Working from home is seen...
Worcestershire Workplace Health Survey
In September 2021, Worcestershire County Council launched their Acting Together to Prevent Suicide campaign in partnership with Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care Trust. The campaign is fronted by Delicious Orie – a GB boxer with roots in Herefordshire...
Introducing MoodMaster
Are you … Depressed … Anxious … Irritable … Angry ? Do you have trouble sleeping, have difficulty concentrating, problems in controlling your emotions, or is life just losing its sparkle? MoodMaster is an upbeat approach to physical and emotional well being....
Bank of England Roundtable
On August 22nd, 12 business leaders and Members of the Chamber were invited to attend an interesting roundtable event with Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England. Following this enlightening event, I wanted to share some key notes from the meeting, in order to...
New Member’s Pharma Packaging Systems Awarded Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Pharma Packaging Systems Ltd (PPS) have been honoured with the prestigious Queen’s award for enterprise in the International Trade Category. Employing 30 people based in Pershore, Worcestershire, PPS specialise in the design and manufacture of pharmaceutical tablet...
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