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Yorkshire film collaboration leads to award-winning drama
A Sheffield-born producer and distributor has teamed up with a writer and
director from Harrogate to bring an award-winning film, ‘Provenance,’ to the UK
where it will be released on Monday 13th July on Curzon Home Cinema.
Amanda Atkins, who grew up in Sheffield, set up Afinia Film, following a
Chancellor, make room at the table for women entrepreneurs
By Simone Roache, Northern Power Women
Women entrepreneurs, and particularly women of black, Asian and minority ethnic
backgrounds, are just what our economy needs – but women need to be invested in,
involved, given a voice and given the right support.
There has always been a much-discussed gender and ethnic imbalance
Yorkshire tech entrepreneur launches platform to save kid’s birthdays
Kidcrowd, a new platform that streamlines gift giving for children, is helping
struggling parents to still make their children’s birthdays as special as
possible. An estimated 3 million children in the UK* have celebrated their
birthdays under lockdown so far and with many more millions more celebrating in
the
Human rights charity calls for support on honour based abuse
* Call for the public and service providers to unite and ‘Shine the Spotlight
on the reality of honour based abuse in the UK with online conference, social
media spotlight and launch of comms toolkit
* Government backed honour based abuse helpline received over 12,000 contacts
in 2019
* The helpline has
Trinity Kitchen Re-Opens
Trinity Kitchen is re-opening with new safety measures at Trinity Leeds as
lockdown restrictions are eased – with hand sanitiser points, comprehensive
cleaning routines and new queuing systems introduced.
The new safety measures, which also include socially-distanced queuing systems,
signage and floor stickers, have been implemented in accordance with Government
guidelines,
How to prepare your business for post-lockdown
With businesses across the hospitality and leisure industry preparing for the
‘new normal’, drastic changes have needed to be implemented in order to ensure
both staff and customers are kept safe and risk is minimised.
In order to help business prepare for returning to work post-lockdown, Brighouse
based self-storage providers
Forthcoming events with Connect Yorkshire
Let's Talk Zoom!
With Connect Yorkshire Partner Sally Roberts
In January 2020 who ever imagined that video conferencing would become a regular
part of our day? Face to face meetings replaced with a Zoom call, networking in
a room, now conducted over Zoom or attending a conference, now