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July 23, 2024|Business

Last call to tech community for submissions for Leeds Digital Festival event programme

With less than eight weeks to go until the 2024 Leeds Digital Festival gets underway, organisers are calling for the Leeds tech community to submit their event details. The final deadline for event submissions is 5.00pm Wednesday 24 July. The Festival runs from 16-27 September. Now in its ninth year, Leeds Digital Festival is the UK's largest open platform tech event and the biggest outside London. For this year’s Festival, organisers are aiming to deliver the best possible experience for

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July 22, 2024|Business

Reminder to plan ahead as major highways work starts in Leeds

Road users are being urged to plan ahead this week as significant disruptive work begins around the Armley Gyratory, Stanningley Bypass (A647), and the Outer Ring Road A6120 Horsforth to Rodley route. The work has been planned to coincide with the reduced levels of traffic over the school summer holidays, which aims to minimise disruption for all road users. The council works hard to prioritise, plan and co-ordinate complex schemes to ensure as least disruption as possible across our busy city

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July 17, 2024|Business

King's Speech - Housing

Following the King's speech today, Northern Housing Consortium chief executive Tracy Harrison said: “The Government’s focus on housing is good news for Northerners. The proposals set out in the King’s Speech to build more homes, including desperately needed social rent homes, are especially welcome. We know there is enough brownfield land in the North to build up to 320,000 new homes, making a significant contribution to tackling the housing crisis. “We’re pleased to see a commitment to make t

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July 15, 2024|Business

Mayor Brabin tells builders to brace for housebuilding boom

Mayor Tracy Brabin has vowed to deliver a “new dawn” for housebuilding across West Yorkshire, by working in lock-step with local housing providers and the new government in Westminster. The West Yorkshire Housing Strategy 2040, the first of its kind for the region, has been unveiled on a visit to Saxton Lane in Leeds, where 204 affordable apartments are being developed by WDH. The strategy identifies untapped potential for new housing across Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefiel

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July 10, 2024|Business

The value of networking for your business

One in four professionals don’t bother to network, despite nearly 80% deeming it crucial for career success. The idea of initiating conversations with strangers and navigating small talk can feel daunting and exhausting. However, a study has found that people who actively work on their networks are up to 72% more likely to be promoted or succeed in business. Dos Be mindful of body language It only takes seven seconds for people to form a first impression of you. Show genuine interest in yo

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July 2, 2024|Business

YPO appoints head of procurement

Wakefield-based YPO, one of the UK’s largest public buying sector organisations, has appointed Michelle Walker as its new head of procurement services. Within this newly created role, Michelle will lead on forming strategic stakeholder partnerships, nurturing strong internal relationships and collaborating with customers within the YPO supply chain. Michelle is an award-winning procurement professional with extensive experience in the public sector, specifically within the NHS and higher edu

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June 24, 2024|Business

Apprentice supports over £100k revenue growth for digital marketing agency

Brand Ambition, a prominent digital marketing agency based in Leeds, has reported over £100,000 in revenue growth, significantly attributed to the contributions of Sophie Wright, a web development apprentice recruited through the Government apprenticeship scheme facilitated by The Coders Guild. This apprenticeship was funded by the Apprenticeship Levy, with ASDA contributing to Sophie's training costs. In a strategic move to enhance its service capabilities, Brand Ambition created a dedicated

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June 24, 2024|Business

Multi award-winning Jaywing bolsters senior team with two new hires

Award-winning, integrated marketing agency Jaywing has made two senior hires in business development and strategy to accelerate its ambitious 2024 growth plans. Sophie Munton joins as commercial director, with over 15 years of industry experience in CRM, media and customer loyalty experience in FTSE 500 companies. Sophie has worked with some of the biggest names in retail and loyalty including Nectar at Sainsburys and Morrisons on their More card proposition, aswell as previously leading comme

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June 24, 2024|Business

Deliciously Yorkshire launches 2024 Taste Awards

Deliciously Yorkshire, The Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and the Humber, officially launched their 2024 Taste Awards today at the Pavilions of Harrogate where a glittering black-tie awards night will take place later this year when the winners will be announced. New for 2024 is the headline sponsor, supermarket chain Booths. Nigel Murray, managing director of Booths said “Booths are delighted to support the Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards, Booths was founded on one simple aim, to sell

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June 24, 2024|EditorsBlog

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Here at Yorkshire Businesswoman magazine, we receive a high number of press releases from PR companies and businesses alike. Although we do our best to publish as many newsworthy press releases as we can for our readers and members free of charge, many of the releases we receive require a good amount of work and input from us. If you forward a press release and want us to consider publishing free of charge, please note the following: * There should be no links within the release leading b

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June 21, 2024|Business

Criminal psychologist who worked with Kray twins launches online events

After selling out venues across Yorkshire, renowned criminal psychologist, radio host and podcaster Linda Sage is taking her true crime tour online! Linda spent forty years working in England's top category prisons with the UK’s most notorious criminals, including the Krays, Peter Sutcliffe and Myra Hindley. Her storytelling events not only surprise and shock but leave audiences with a deeper understanding of the workings of criminal minds. Starting with 40 years at the sharp end of criminal

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June 21, 2024|Business

Career advice - don't wait to be encouraged, take the initiative

An engineer working for the train operator Northern has said women shouldn’t wait to be ‘encouraged’ to consider a career in engineering – saying the sector’s employment credentials speak for themselves. In a rallying cry to women across the country, Rebecca Prendergast says engineering offers excellent career progression, the opportunity to work on exciting multi-million-pound projects and higher than average salaries. Rebecca, who is currently a senior production manager for operations at

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