Health & Wellbeing My Expert Midwife named in E2E Female 100 Lesley Gilchrist, registered midwife and co-founder of Harrogate-based My Expert Midwife has been named in the 2023 E2E Female 100 list in association with The Independent newspaper. The list, which was independently verified by data from Experian and Go Live Data, celebrates the most influential, fastest growing and highest performing By The Editor • 2 min read
Entrepreneurs Former IoD England director pursues career in private sector Natalie Sykes, a former national director of the Institute of Directors (IoD), is to pursue a career in the private sector after taking a sabbatical from the organisation. Natalie was a management team member leading IoD England. Prior to that she was regional director for the IoD in Yorkshire and By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Lean In Leeds celebrates winners of inaugural Women of Excellence Awards Lean In Leeds, a women’s networking group in Yorkshire, has celebrated the incredible women of the region with its inaugural Women of Excellence Awards. The winners were announced at a packed-out ceremony at Bruntwood, in Leeds City Centre, on 22nd March. “When women rise, they bring other women up By The Editor • 2 min read
Events YBW February event Our latest event at Banyan Leeds All images Copyright Roth Read Photography By The Editor • 4 min read
Business Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort to open the new York Minster Refectory Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort are set to formally open the new York Minster Refectory restaurant on April 6th, as part of their visit to York for the Royal Maundy Service at York Minster. Their Majesties will tour the new York Minster Refectory restaurant and its grounds By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Wilkinson Woodward expands with new appointment Calderdale and Kirklees law firm Wilkinson Woodward Solicitors is pleased to welcome Katarzyna (Kasia) Zatorski to its expanding Family Law team. Kasia has a wealth of experience in family law, specifically in matters concerning children and domestic abuse, and most recently worked at Truth Legal, where she established the firm’ By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle The ‘ladies in the long black dress’ hit Leeds To celebrate the opening night of Sister Act at The Grand, our Ladies of the Lord posed for photographs at some of Leeds’ most iconic landmarks (mostly shops!). Yorkshire Businesswoman will be there, will you? Starring TV and West End legend Lesley Joseph, Olivier Award-winner and star of Tracy Beaker By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Property market set to see spring uplift, says local expert Local property expert and owner of X-Press Legal Services West and South Yorkshire predicts the region’s property market will see a spring uplift from next month. X-Press Legal Services has seen a 47 per cent increase in product orders from conveyancing professionals across England and Wales since December. Helen By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Love fashion - get involved with RUN RUN is an exciting line-up of events overseen by internationally acclaimed Yorkshire designer, and Leeds Beckett University Professor, Matty Bovan, who is inviting fashion and arts lovers to a live photoshoot takeover on Tuesday 4 April at Trinity Leeds, in the heart of the city centre. This live, one-day-only showcase By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Bradford Garden Centre to host free houseplant advice session A Bradford garden centre is hosting a free drop-in session for customers to get expert houseplant advice. Gardeners' World Live presenter Joe Bagley will be in the houseplant department at Tong Garden Centre from 12 pm on Saturday, 25th March to give advice and answer questions about houseplants. " By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Leeds Gliterary Lunch with Jodie Chapman & Rebecca Wait Gliterary Lunches first launched in 2006. Sisters, Sibh & Beth wanted to bring together their favourite things and share them with like-minded people. Always keen readers, both joined book clubs when their children were small. They quickly realised that not only were these gatherings great fun, they opened the door By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Sketch book Social Yorkshire Businesswoman associate editor, Freda Shafi had the pleasure to take part in probably the most therapeutic activity in a long time last month organised by Yousef and Clifford of Sketch Club Social. We sketched inside Leeds Minster! Sketch Club Social was created to get like minded artists, sketchers, together By The Editor • 1 min read
