Friday, April 19, 2024

West Yorkshire

Rural broadband provider Quickline Communications is celebrating hitting a string of notable milestones throughout 2023 – while pressing ahead with plans for a fast start to the new year. East Yorkshire-based Quickline continues to light up communities in remote and very hard to reach locations across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, passing...
Adrian Green, the manager of not-for-profit company Unity Enterprise which promotes community-based entrepreneurship in Leeds, has been shortlisted for a Yorkshire Leadership Award. He is one of five contenders in the Public and Third Sector category for the awards which “celebrate the people that are role models within their organisations...
West Yorkshire air conditioning firm Knight Engineers has pledged its support to some of the region’s neediest families by becoming a patron of The Principle Trust Children’s Charity. The Trust provides respite breaks to children who are underprivileged, disadvantaged, disabled, have life-limiting conditions, or who have experienced poverty, trauma or...
The benefits to the UK of accelerating the move away from fossil fuels towards clean energy alternatives have been made stark by the invasion of Ukraine, a prominent University of Manchester academic has argued. But, in an article published by Policy@Manchester, Professor Matthew Paterson warns that “the energy transition raises...
Three new defibrillators will be made available to the local community in Chapeltown near Leeds city centre by Unity Enterprise with support from the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). The devices, which are fully automated and provide simple voice prompts on how to use in the event of...
Manningham Housing Association (MHA) has been shortlisted in two categories for the Housing Digital Innovation Awards 2024. The BME-led organisation, which manages more than 1,400 affordable homes in Bradford and Keighley, is in the final running for the ‘Most Innovative Approach to Culture and Wellbeing’ prize as well as ‘Best...
Yorkshire-based niche law firm, Hawkswell Kilvington, has made a series of promotions to its senior team. The firm of specialist construction and engineering lawyers has promoted Claire Saunders, Matthew Shotton and Rebecca Jackson to their new role as Legal Director. The trio of specialist construction lawyers at the firm deal with...
Yorkshire-based niche law firm, Hawkswell Kilvington, has made a series of promotions to its senior team. The firm of specialist construction and engineering lawyers has promoted Claire Saunders, Matthew Shotton and Rebecca Jackson to their new role as Legal Director. The trio of specialist construction lawyers at the firm deal with...
Manningham Housing Association (MHA) has launched a new WhatsApp bot to boost around the clock assistance for tenants. The application is designed to answer common questions relating to MHA's services including rent payments, maintenance requests and other tenant support via a real-time automated conversational experience. It will also provide useful information...
The cost-of-living crisis is having an unequal effect on different groups within the older population with those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds disproportionately affected, an article from University of Manchester academics has revealed. Drawing on new research they have produced in collaboration with the Manchester Urban Ageing...