A social enterprise which specialises in lending flexible finance to businesses which need it most, has announced it has boosted the region’s economy by £39m in the last 12 months. The Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) has released its 2017 – 2018 social impact report which also reveals the lender helped create
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Planning submitted for further 700 new homes at Leeds site
Templegate Developments Limited, the joint venture partnership of Evans Property Group and Keyland Developments, has submitted a planning application to Leeds City Council to build a further 700 new homes on the 170 acre Skelton Gate site within the Leeds Aire Valley, taking the total number of homes being brought
Planning approval gives hope to former church building
Planning permission has been granted to create 52, one and two bedroom apartments within a former church building, which fronts onto York Road close to Quarry House, in Leeds city centre. Designed by Brewster Bye Architects for developer Gold & Amber, Hope City Church will be transformed into a five storey
Senior hires for Blacks Solicitors’ commercial property team
The Commercial Property team has been bolstered with the arrival of Marc Warren as Partner and Kevin Hostford as Legal Director. Marc has extensive experience in commercial property and acts for a wide variety of clients including corporate occupiers, investors, lenders, borrowers and developers. Marc joins Blacks from the Leeds office
Entrepreneurs bring “back to the future” corner shop concept to the Fruit Market
Curtain maker’s grand opening is a seamless success
Nationwide Curtain Makers – recipients of a sizeable grant from ERDF funded programme, AD:VENTURE – celebrated the completion of its new offices and showroom with a star-studded ribbon cutting ceremony, which saw the likes of famous rugby players and local dignitaries in attendance. After successfully applying for the full £25,000 AD:VENTURE
Tong Garden Centre wins hat trick of horticultural business awards
The team at a Bradford garden centre are celebrating after winning all three of the awards that it was shortlisted for in a national horticulture industry competition. Tong Garden Centre won the Garden Centre outlet of the year (large/destination), the High Growth Business of the Year and the Service Excellence Categories
Hat-trick for flourishing ex-Emmerdale mill
Three new deals have been completed at the thriving Sunny Bank Mills, the iconic Yorkshire mill complex between Leeds and Bradford. The deals, featuring tenants from the textile, HR and safety consultancy sectors, underline the renaissance of Sunny Banks Mills in Farsley, where YTV’s Emmerdale and Heartbeat were filmed. During the past
Clarion boosts corporate team with new legal director
Clarion has expanded its corporate practice with the appointment of Hitesh Tailor as legal director, resulting in a 12-strong specialist corporate team. Hitesh joins from the Leeds office of international law firm DLA Piper where he spent 12 years advising blue chip companies on a number of high profile transactions. Hitesh has
Two Yorkshire businesses awarded at the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 North Awards
Jonathan Seaton, the chief executive of Twinkl Education Publishing, based in Sheffield, and Jacqui Hall, managing director of Contract Natural Gas, based in Harrogate, were both winners at EY’s North of England Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards, held in Manchester last night. Jonathan won the Scale-up Award and was praised by