A local shopping centre in Barnsley is celebrating winning two Superstar Awards in the Revo Achieving Customer Excellence (ACE) Awards. Dave Hague, Customer Care Officer, and Greg Lindley, Cleaning Supervisor, from the Alhambra Shopping Centre, were two of only nine people who won the prestigious retail award from more than 400 participants. The Revo ACE… Read more »
Pupils at two schools in Barnsley are being helped to achieve a nationally-recognised arts qualification thanks to funding from one of the area’s largest employers. The Arts Award, delivered by Barnsley Museums, has received £5,000 in funding from XPO Logistics, which operates a Barnsley warehouse on behalf of online fashion retailer ASOS. The learning team… Read more »
A website stocking the UK’s largest range of Japanese sake has been launched by a Barnsley entrepreneur. Stuart Turner, who runs SushiSushi, launched a new e-commerce site, the SakeStore.co.uk, this week with the range of sake – a Japanese alcoholic drink made of fermented rice. SushiSushi sells over 200 kinds of sake via SakeStore.co.uk for… Read more »
Hundreds of jobs have been created in Barnsley over the last financial year, thanks to specialist business support. The borough has also seen a record level of inward investment. Enterprising Barnsley has helped create more than 1,300 new jobs, attracted 39 new companies to the borough and seen nearly a million square feet of extra… Read more »
A Queen’s Young Leader will host the glittering final of a new Primary School enterprise challenge. Ashleigh Porter-Exley (pictured right and below), one of a ‘handful of exceptional young people from across the Commonwealth to become Queen’s Young Leaders’, also won the BBC’s Young Apprentice, and she is thrilled to team up with Yorkshire company Louder Than… Read more »
A Barnsley teenager was among the notable award winners at the Women in Business Athena International Women’s Day held at Tankersley Manor on Wednesday. Eve Lodge, the 19-year-old owner of bespoke bunting business Barmy, was unable to make the event due to Women’s Day commitments at The University of Hull, where she is studying marketing. However,… Read more »
A Barnsley Security Company celebrating its10th anniversary has been assessed as being in the top 2% of Security providers Nationwide. As an existing Gold Award Company there is a strict requirement for assessment. Annual inspections are completed by the National Security Inspectorate (NSI). who are recognised as the leading certification body for the security and… Read more »
After such a successful year of Random Acts of Kindness, the Alhambra Shopping Centre in Barnsley will be continuing with their generous campaign for 2017. Over the past 12 months, the centre has been rewarding people of Barnsley with small acts of kindness, including paying for shopper’s parking, free strawberries and cream to celebrate Wimbledon,… Read more »
A number of Barnsley people have been nominated for the 2017 Yorkshire Choice awards. The nominations have been revealed for the various categories – and features Barnsley-based businesses and business people, including teenagers Eve Lodge and Rose Dyson. Eve, who is the owner of bespoke bunting business Barmy, was shortlisted for the Yorkshire Choice Young… Read more »
Sheffield-based company Louder Than Life have teamed up with teenage Barnsley business woman Eve Lodge for a new enterprise venture aimed at Primary School kids. Starting in February 2017, Louder Than Life (LTL) will be out and about at various Primary Schools in the South Yorkshire region delivering a challenge that is linked to music… Read more »
