Friday, May 3, 2024

East Yorkshire

Leading engineering company Spencer Group has commenced work to create a new permanent home for an iconic vessel. Spencer Group is building a wet berth for the Spurn Lightship on Hull Marina, as part of a £30m cultural regeneration project. The Hull City Council-led Hull Maritime project has been launched to...
A young female joiner has won a prestigious award recognising her rapid progress as a star performer with East Yorkshire-based housebuilder Beal Homes. Erin Symons, 17, joined the award-winning business last year and is undertaking a two-year level two carpentry and joinery apprenticeship, learning her craft under the mentorship of...
An entrepreneur whose companies are blazing a trail in hiring apprentices and pursuing net zero urged a leading Labour figure to prioritise both as he welcomed him to the council estate in Hull where he spent much of his childhood.   Daniel Haley told Darren Jones, the Shadow Chief Secretary to...
Siemens Mobility has recruited 35 new employees in the first major wave of recruitment for its state-of-the-art trains manufacturing facility in Goole as it prepares to begin production this Spring. The first major wave of recruitment will be followed by scores of further roles that will be available over coming...
Last Christmas David Huse decided he needed a showstopper centrepiece for the music room of his home in Surrey. This year he gave himself something special – the iconic white leather sofa which features on the cover of Patience, George Michael’s last studio album. To save him from tears, a family...
Ideal Heating has thrown its support behind a local independent business by funding an apprenticeship for one of its employees. The Hull-based UK heating market leader has used part of its Apprenticeship Levy funding to pay for business services provider Bell4Business employee Connor Docherty to undertake a digital marketing apprenticeship. The...
UK market leader Ideal Heating has extended its Principal Sponsor deal with West Bromwich Albion Football Club by a further three years. Hull-based Ideal Heating first became West Brom’s Principal Sponsor in 2018 and the extension will take the partnership to a record-breaking nine seasons. Under the new deal, Ideal Heating’s...
The Matthew Good Foundation – a grant-making charity formed by Hull-based business, John Good Group in 2011 has passed a major milestone of £1million given to non-profits since it was founded. To celebrate, employees at John Good Group have voted for two Yorkshire-based charities – Clean Planet and HER...
Poverty-hit children will get help to keep warm this winter and bereaved families will be supported in coping with their loss thanks to the fundraising efforts of staff in the Hull office of global audit, tax and consulting advisers RSM UK. The 100-strong team raised more than £25,000 from events...
A food bank which has seen demand for its services rocket since it launched just four years ago has welcomed a special delivery which will ease the pressure on families over Christmas. The HU4 Hub received a box of food and personal hygiene products from Hull West and Hessle MP...