A Harrogate charity has unveiled an ambitious five-year vision which will ultimately ensure disabled people from the District, and beyond, have equal access to services, homes, work and fulfilled lives. In its “Realising Ambition” strategy, Disability Action Yorkshire – which last year celebrated its 80th anniversary – says in 15 years’
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Engage Mutual recommends merger with Family Investments
Engage Mutual announced yesterday that the Board has made a formal recommendation that the Society merges with Family Investments to form one of the UK’s largest mutual insurers with over 2 million customers. The organisation would focus on helping families work together across generations, to save, invest and protect. As a
Ports operator RMS boosts commercial team to capitalise on Humber trade boom
Leading ports operator RMS Group has strengthened its commercial team to capitalise on unprecedented investments around the Humber. Already the UK’s busiest trading complex, the Humber is on the cusp of a development and trade boom fuelled by the burgeoning offshore wind industry. Siemens and Associated British Ports are jointly investing £310m
Finance Yorkshire reaches new milestone with engineering investment
A major investment in a flourishing engineering business has seen Finance Yorkshire hit a new milestone. It has now invested £75 million in Yorkshire based SMEs such as Close Engineering, which has recently secured a £100,000 Business Loan from the regional funding body. Established in 2003 by Neil Close, Close Engineering works
Harrogate tax advisory business chooses Avalon as its charity of the year
A Harrogate-based specialist tax advisory business has chosen an organisation that provides personalised care, support and companionship to a wide range of individuals, as its chosen Charity of the Year. Independent Tax and Forensic Services LLP - set up by former HMRC tax inspectors Gary Brothers and Stephen Outhwaite - has
Limehouse supports Calderdale housing project
A Halifax-based communications agency is putting its talents and expertise to good use providing support for Pennine Housing 2000’s ‘Sick of Being Skint’ (SOBS) project launched earlier this year. Over the next four years, Limehouse will play an active role contributing professional expertise in communications and by providing training and mentoring
UK’s top companies challenged to employ talented disabled workers
Leonard Cheshire Disability is urging the UK's top firms to offer diabled undergraduates the chance of working in their businesses. The charity is contacting the companies that make up the FTSE 100 to join its Change100 programme by providing work placements for undergraduates with disabilities and giving them an opportunity to
NHS Shared Business Services Run Jane Tomlinson 10K Leeds Charity Run
More tan 60 employees from the NHS Shared Business Services Tingley office competed in yesterday's Jane Tomlinson Appeal 10K Leeds Charity Run Corporate Challenge, in Leeds City Centre. NHS SBS employees offered their support to the fundraising activities by participating in the charity run and assisting runners through a range of
Lateral Property Group purchases flagship Glasgow retail unit
Harrogate-based Lateral Property Group has purchased 177 Ingram Street, Glasgow on a sale-and-leaseback with Jigsaw for £2.3m. The property is an open-plan former Victorian banking hall with retail accommodation of over 10,000 sq ft arranged over ground and basement levels. Marcus Briggs, Retail Development Director of Harrogate-based Lateral Property Group, said: “Glasgow is
M&S launches new youth employability scheme in Leeds
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has launched a new youth employability scheme in Leeds. Make Your Mark will see the retailer join forces with youth charity, The Prince’s Trust, to create over 1,400 work experience placements for 16-25 year olds. Youth unemployment in the UK has recently reached record levels, with one in