Business Transforming Leeds City train station, work begins The next stage in the transformation of Leeds City Rail Station’s main entrance and surrounding area will begin this month. The Leeds Station Sustainable Travel Gateway scheme will create a much-improved and more people-friendly environment which can accommodate growing rail passenger numbers, and ensure people can enter and exit By The Editor • 4 min read
Entrepreneurs Fund Her Leeds project launched Fund Her North has partnered with Yorkshire Asian Business Community Association (YABCA), with grant support from Leeds City Council’s Innovation@Leeds programme, to deliver the Fund Her Leeds project. Working with female entrepreneurs – particularly those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds – Fund Her Leeds will provide focused support By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Former Boohoo and BlueClaw employee joins Yorkshire agency Wild Yorkshire-based PR agency, Wild PR has appointed Hollie Thornton (pictured left) as the agency’s first SEO Manager. The role will see Hollie lead the technical SEO development, analysis, and performance across Wild PR’s portfolio of clients. The PR and communications specialists have significant growth plans for 2023, and By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Leeds 2023 opens new hub in Trinity Leeds A new Leeds 2023 pop-up hub has opened on the ground floor of popular shopping and leisure destination, Trinity Leeds. Free events, activities, exhibitions and a new range of merchandise will be showcased in the heart of the city centre, 7 days a week until the end of the year, By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Aubergine grows team following hat-trick of new business wins Leeds PR agency Aubergine has appointed its first full time employee following a record-breaking hat-trick of new business wins. Since January, Aubergine has secured £50,000 in new contracts with sustainability-focused clients Round Our Way, Be The Future and Foodsteps, helping the agency further carve a niche in this space. By The Editor • 2 min read
Business As energy prices surge, firm offers help to care homes Commercial laundry expert Wolf is tackling the cost-of-living crisis within the care industry by providing expert personalised advice, comprehensive consumption figures and additional training. Barnsley-based Wolf Laundry has more than 30 years’ experience within the laundry sector and provides bespoke commercial laundry equipment across the UK to heavy users including By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Huddersfield Business School appoints new chair of Advisory Board Huddersfield Business School has recently appointed a new chair to its internal Advisory Board, Helen Curtis. Founder of Coterie Marketing, Helen, will work closely with the Dean of Huddersfield Business School to support the board to provide appropriate support for its stakeholders. The aim of the school’s Advisory Board By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Baroness Blake appointed Patron of the Institute of Economic Development Judith Blake, the Baroness Blake of Leeds CBE, has been appointed as the new Patron of the Institute for Economic Development (IED). She takes up the unpaid role from outgoing Patron, The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, who was in post for two years. A British Labour politician serving as By The Editor • 2 min read
Entrepreneurs Gift company expands with Finance Yorkshire investment A gift company specialising in personalised keepsakes is expanding into new markets following a £300,000 investment from Finance Yorkshire. The investment will enable Brough-based The Lovely Gift Group to purchase new machinery, stock and employ additional staff as it eyes opportunities in the funeral care and pet memorial sectors. By The Editor • 3 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Six new stores and centre manager all set for Trinity Walk A West Yorkshire shopping centre is set to welcome six new stores – and a centre manager – in a successful start to the year. Trinity Walk in Wakefield will play home to Europe’s biggest sports and fitness retailer, Sports Direct, who will take over a prominent space across two floors By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Robust Christmas for Jo Browns Joe Browns, the Leeds-based fashion and homes retailer, has announced what it called a ‘robust Christmas’ with sales up +19.5% in the four weeks to 25 December 2022. The strong figures were delivered against a backdrop of external economic factors including the on-going cost of living crisis, which continues By The Editor • 2 min read
What's on 10cc’s Graham Gouldman UK tour comes to Holmfirth It is only between 10cc’s sell-out, bi-annual UK tours that the band’s co-founder Graham Gouldman is able to fully indulge his Heart Full of Songs project and take it on tour. The semi-acoustic four-piece performs a broad spread of Graham’s song-writing catalogue, including chart hits for 10cc, By The Editor • 1 min read
