Bringing Communities Together
Best for Hand-Made Chocolates: Ilfracombe Chocolate Emporium The beautiful seaside town of Ilfracombe in North Devon is home to the Chocolate Emporium, where Jeanette and her team make a range of wonderful handcrafted chocolates including chocolate bars and slabs, fudges and gift boxes too. The wonderful range of flavours include classics such […]
More than 2,200 people have received benefits and debt advice from Sandwell Council during the Covid-19 pandemic – and anyone else in need of support is being urged to get in touch. The council’s Welfare Rights Team is available to help anyone in need of advice on claiming benefits. There […]
Sandwell Council is inviting applications from today from local businesses for a new COVID-19 support grant. The council has £3.362m from the government’s Discretionary Business Grant Fund to allocate to local businesses. This funding is specifically to support small and micro businesses with high fixed property costs which are not […]
Sandwell Council has now paid ‘lifeline’ grants to more than 1,500 businesses – worth a total of £18.1 million – to help them tackle the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19). But over 2,100 businesses have yet to respond to a council letter asking for key information so that grants they may […]
A soon-to-open music institute in the West Midlands is developing a library of online videos designed to support further education and 6th form students who are missing out on face-to-face classes because of the COVID-19 crisis. Resonance, which will be accepting its first cohort of undergraduate students this September, is […]
DriverMetrics has published a new guide for fleet managers which addresses the impact of Covid-19 on driver stress. Written by DriverMetrics Research Director, Dr Lisa Dorn, the guide covers identifying the signs of driver stress during the pandemic; its effects on crash involvement, and practical advice on supporting drivers at […]
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a brand that encourages the pursuit of dreams, and now a new generation of aspiring designers are being encouraged to bring their automotive dreams to life through a special ‘Young Designer Competition’. Launched to provide parents and children with a welcome distraction during the worldwide coronavirus […]
Though the internet as a technology and service does not have a long-standing history as others, still it has penetrated our lives that others haven’t. It was invented on January 1, 1983, used primarily for military purposes, later it expanded to the purpose of communication among scientists and now the […]
Public Health England (PHE) has published a list of tailored advice for different scenarios as an example of how social distancing and other measures might be implemented by employers in England to help protect their workforce and customers from coronavirus while still continuing to trade. Advice for Transport businesses Social […]
Manchester could be set to see an influx of tech talent in the next three years, according to new research from CWJobs, the UK’s leading tech job board. Surveying 1,000 tech workers, Manchester emerged as the top choice outside of the capital (22%) to work in, with a fifth (20%) also revealing it’s […]
