Sky Recruitment Solutions, an industrial recruitment agency serving the Midlands and Yorkshire regions, is thrilled to announce its shortlisting for the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Awards 2023. The agency has been recognised in the category of “Best Company to Work For (Up to 50 employees)”. Marking a significant milestone as their first shortlist for…

Tuesday 12th September marked one year since Odsal Stadium opened its doors to Andy’s Man Club’s Bradford South Group! ANDYSMANCLUB are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. Monday 12th September 2022 saw the first session held at the home of the Bradford Bulls, who have worked closely with the Bradford South…

Keighley Laboratories is hailed for its crucial role in driving industry innovation and fostering talent within the local community. MP Robbie Moore visits Keighley Laboratories, showcasing local industry innovation and engineering prowess. • Keighley Laboratories is hailed for its crucial role in driving industry innovation and fostering talent within the local community. • The visit…

An outstanding Bradford College member of staff rubbed shoulders with royalty after she was given the chance to meet King Charles.   Esther Wilkey, a lecturer based in the Bradford College ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) department, was invited to Windsor Castle for a day celebrating the legacy and contributions of William Shakespeare…

A local business has celebrated its 50th anniversary with a £2,000 project in partnership with its local park.   Airedale Group is supporting Glusburn and Cross Hills Parish Council to make improvements to Glusburn Park which will benefit both the environment and the local community.   Using the donation from the Cross Hill’s based chemical…

The team at a South Leeds adventure playground is raising funds for its charity of the year with a special Cave Pod experience.   Between Bank Holiday Monday and Wednesday, 30th August, visitors to Mission Out at Tingley Garden Centre will be able to enjoy a free Cave Pod session to raise funds for Yorkshire…

The team at a garden centre in Otley is broadening its family appeal by introducing its popular Santa experience for the first time.   Otley Garden Centre, formerly Stephen H Smith’s, was acquired by Yorkshire Garden Centres in July last year and the team is looking forward to bringing its popular interactive grotto experience to…

Airedale Group has announced a shift in positions at the head of the business as Richard Ward is appointed managing director, taking over from Chris Chadwick who takes on a new role in the company. Richard Ward, who joined Airedale Group in November 2022 as business director, will take over the day-to-day running of the…

Regal Food Products Group Plc, the food group owners behind household brands Regal Foods and Yorkshire Baking Company, have acquired Packaging ‘R’ Us for an undisclosed sum – their first non-food and drink business.   The acquisition comes in response to the groups long-term vision of expanding and strengthening its wholesale and food service offering…

Partnership between Yorkshire Building Society and Citizens Advice is being expanded to 42 towns and cities across the country. The award-winning partnership sees advisers in the Society’s high street branches, making the Citizens Advice service even more accessible to those who need it. More than £1 million of estimated additional income has been unlocked for…

The team at a Bradford garden centre is supporting a local child’s appeal for a new kidney.   Bradford teenager, Uqbah Mohammed, has stage five chronic kidney disease and has to undergo dialysis three times a week. Her aunt, Naila Khan, approached the team at Grass Hoppers at Tong Garden Centre as a potential location…

Cross Hills has received the area’s first of a new model of defibrillator designed to make saving lives as simple as possible. Airedale Group has donated the innovative ZOLL fully automatic AED (automated external defibrillator) to the village as part of its support in providing life-saving equipment in its neighbouring areas. Located in the centre…

Two floors at The Granary, Leeds, have been acquired by White Rose Education. The Granary is a Grade 2 listed local landmark with a proud history dating back to 1777. The building is in the heart of Leeds and has been substantially redeveloped to offer 20,000 sq ft of top-quality office space. After significant interest,…

Bradford Bulls are delighted to announce Jordan Lilley has signed a new three-year deal – extending his stay at the club until at least the end of 2026! The 26-year-old first arrived at Odsal Stadium on a loan deal from Leeds Rhinos in 2017, before eventually making his stay permanent in 2019 and swiftly becoming…

Bradford, 31st July 2023 Faum Architecture, a young and dynamic architectural design practice based in Bradford, is proud and excited to announce that it’s been shortlisted as part of a local design-led collaboration for the prestigious RIBA Beacon Project. Faum Architecture, in association with GWP Architecture, Empace Structural Engineers and Bradford Moor Pass, is now…

Financial highlights: Mortgage balances increased to £45.9bn (31 December 2022: £45.2bn) Savings balances increased to £45.6bn (31 December 2022: £42.0bn) 320,000 new savings accounts opened (June 2022: 171,000) Paid savings rates that were an average of 1.04 percentage points higher than the market (0.56 percentage points higher over 2022) Statutory Profit Before Tax of £180.6m…

A West Yorkshire team of field service engineers was full of praise after using the corporate facilities at a South Leeds adventure park recently.   Paul Biltcliffe, Team Manager at Sky, took 14 colleagues to Mission Out at Tingley Garden Centre for a team-building adventure day.   The team spent the morning having a team…

Professor Shahina Pardhan, a true trail-blazer in the field of optometry, has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Health from the University of Bradford, adding to the list of accolades received throughout her career – which includes being appointed as the first female professor of optometry in 2001.    She has won numerous awards for…

Manningham Housing Association (MHA) has retained the highest possible gradings from the Regulator of Social Housing following an In-depth Assessment.   These normally take place every three to four years to decide if a housing association meets the Regulator’s governance requirements and has the financial ability to deal with any adverse events.   In-depth Assessments…

Michael Cantwell has joined Yorkshire-based law firm Schofield Sweeney as a partner in their corporate team. Based in Leeds, Michael acts on a wide range of corporate matters. He is regularly involved in early negotiations to structure a transaction and credited with finding solutions to issues early. Michael is a trusted advisor and receives recommendations…

Royal Onsen is set to bring the relaxing and rejuvenating experience of being on holiday into the heart of Bradford. Facilities at the unique Luxury Clinic and Day Spa include a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool, sauna and steam rooms, a full Turkish & Moroccan bath experience and a mud chamber. The space will also offer a…

The team at a Bradford garden centre are celebrating after winning two awards at the North East and North West regional Garden Centre Association (GCA) awards that were held at Tingley Garden Centre on 5th July.   Tong Garden Centre, part of the Yorkshire Garden Centres (YGC) group, won awards in two categories for the…

Further to a successful series of Teachers’ Days and Drop-Ins, an adventure play attraction in Leeds is launching three packages for school pupils aged 6 – 14.   Developed by a qualified primary and outdoor educational instructor, Gemma Simpson, Duty Manager at Mission Out at Tingley Garden Centre, the packages are the Elevate, Aerial and…

Yorkshire Building Society has announced that, after nine years at the mutual, John Heaps will be succeeded by Annemarie Durbin who will join the Board as Chair Designate by the end of the year.   Annemarie is currently Chair at Cater Allen Private Bank and a non-executive director and chair of remuneration committee on the…

With the country on the brink of an ‘alarming skills shortage’, according to the UK Trade Skills Index, Bradford-based Incommunities is taking matters into their own hands by training the next generation of skilled tradespeople.   After a break in apprentice recruitment following Covid, the social and affordable housing provider is in the process of…

The executive management team at Keighley Laboratories Limited has completed its acquisition of the company from the existing shareholders. Managed by Debbie and Matthew Mellor, the management buyout (MBO) means that the husband and wife team takes ownership of the business outright. Founded in 1920, Keighley Laboratories provides advanced metallurgy testing, consultancy and chemical analytical…

Property group Eddisons has made three promotions within its 15-strong transport planning and highways design team based in Manchester.   Mike Coogan, who joined the team in 2012, has become a director, while Jack Cunningham has been promoted from senior highways technician to senior highways engineer. Recent graduate Genna Woods, who joined Eddisons in 2022,…

Staff at hygiene specialist Christeyns took a day out from their busy schedules recently to help renovate St Johns Bowling Church, located close to their own HQ in Bradford.   Several members of staff, including Operations Director Justin Kerslake, spent a day adding a fresh coat of paint to the church hall which hosts a…

Students from a Keighley primary school have had their science lessons brought to life by the experts at a local chemical company.   Pupils at Sutton-in-Craven Community Primary School enjoyed a morning of experiments at chemical specialist, Airedale Group, based in Cross Hills.   Chemists in the company’s product development laboratories helped them understand chemical…

Do you want to know how to deliver a more engaging learner experience? At our first UK “Network and Learn” event in Leeds, we’ll be joined by Jez Anderson, Digital Learning Consultant who will be discussing a client case study, revealing how to shift from content led, to experience led learning through the effective use…

Over 80 students at Bradford College have been involved in a unique pilot programme to learn more about the allied health professions that support patients in the NHS.  Working with a panel of experts from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Fast Track to T Level Health students took part in the first virtual ‘Aspiring Allies’ project to…

Azhar Ishfaq says he always knew he wanted to be a teacher. He graduated from the University of Bradford with a 2.1 in biomedical science in 2008 and went on to work for a number of local schools.   In 2018, he finally realised his long-held ambition of opening his own academy – Prosper Academy…

Manningham Housing Association (MHA) has published a new three-year Community Investment Strategy to build on its award-winning work to support neighbourhoods in Bradford district during and since the pandemic.   The 22-page document, Improving Quality of Life and Making a Difference, follows the completion of an in-depth community consultation process which sought the views of…

New figures show University of Bradford undergraduates are outperforming the national average when it comes to securing employment in highly-skilled jobs.   The HESA 2020/21 Graduate Outcomes Survey core data for the University shows that 94% of the University of Bradford’s ‘known and available’* UK-domiciled undergraduates were in employment or further study within 15 months of…