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It started with a business event in the East Midlands and has grown to a movement which engages people who Love Business and pulls together all the organisations who can help businesses of any size. Love Business News is a powerful B2B marketing and publicity platform which can get your brand in front of thousands of senior business leaders, executives and decision-makers across the region.

Networking & Events

20 March 2024

Link4Growth - Derbyshire Link4Coffee

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Heanor
20 March 2024
21 March 2024

Focus Business Club Focus Business Club

Time: 7:30am - 9:00am
Where: Retford
21 March 2024

NCG-UK NCG Networking Breakfast

Time: 7:15am - 9:00am
Where:
22 March 2024

Network for Local Business Weekly Breakfast Meeting

Time: 7:00am - 8:30am
Where: Thringstone
22 March 2024

BNI Loughborough BNI Loughborough

Time: 6:30am - 8:45am
Where:
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19th March 2024

Smith Partnership shows its support for the city as its staff get on their marks for the Derby 10k

A Derby law firm is set to continue its long commitment to supporting the city’s popular 10k race after funding another bumper turnout from its staff at the event this weekend.
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18th March 2024

Nottingham’s Altia ranked in top 100 best medium-sized places to work in UK

Altia Intel has been listed in the top 100 medium-sized places to work in the UK with employees highlighting the company’s work culture, performance, and direction during an anonymous survey.  
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18th March 2024

Fluid Ideas creates drive-in Derby studio to rival London and Manchester

Creative agency Fluid Ideas has unveiled the latest phase of its expansion – a drive-in studio for filming, photography, recording and events.
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18th March 2024

East Midlands’ Orchestra Plans Dementia Friendly Performances

Derby-based Sinfonia Viva, the Orchestra of the East Midlands, is planning to launch a programme of dementia-friendly classical music performances in Derby.
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18th March 2024

New Concrete Batching Plant Marks Major Step in £18.5m Scheme

As part of its major investment project at its Burton on Trent tile plant Russell Roof Tiles is installing state-of-the-art equipment to support the firm’s Net Zero ambitions.
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18th March 2024

Armsons Barlow set to transform Derby College Group's campus

Leading Derby-based project managers, construction cost consultants and building surveyors Armsons Barlow are helping to bring an education facility at Derby College Group’s campus to life.
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18th March 2024

Derby Kids’ Camp seeking more volunteers to help children facing challenges

A Derby charity is urgently seeking volunteers so that it can provide a much-needed break to children in the city and county who may be living in poverty or facing challenges at home.
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18th March 2024

Bluesky International donates £1,500 to help maintain story of Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Bluesky International has stepped in to help preserve historical local pictures from its neighbourhood’s past.
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18th March 2024

Stirlin Selected to Construct New State of the Art Warehouse for Lincframe Roof Trusses

Stirlin are excited to announce that they have secured the contract for the construction of a cutting-edge 18,000 square foot warehouse in Lincoln, with two offices and high-quality facilities for Lincframe Roof Trusses.
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18th March 2024

Local housebuilder set to bring 93 new homes to area

A local housebuilder is set to bring 93 homes to Fairham, in Nottingham.
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18th March 2024

A species abundant future for Wild Peak with new Species Survival Funding

An ambitious plan to halt and reverse declining native species abundance across the Peak District has been awarded £1.69 million funding from the Government's Species Survival Fund. 
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18th March 2024

JODY AND TEAM TO THE RESCUE

Last week Living Without Abuse (LWA), a local domestic abuse support charity, put out an appeal for a young mum with 2 children who’d fallen victim to an unscrupulous carpet fitter just when they needed help most. 
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15th March 2024

7 Victoria Centre retailers where you can do your bit for Global Recycling Day 2024

Ahead of Global Recycling Day (18 March), Nottingham’s leading shopping destination, Victoria Centre, is highlighting the many ways in which shoppers can do their bit to help reduce waste.
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15th March 2024

Launch date arrives for new luxury Chesterfield apartments

The creation of 36 high-spec apartments in a vacant Chesterfield building that once housed Tiffany’s Bar and Restaurant has been completed less than a year after work began. 
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15th March 2024

First Response Finance Nominated for ‘Best Car Finance Provider’ Award for a Fourth Consecutive Time

First Response Finance, the vehicle finance company with offices in Nottingham, Leigh, and Glasgow, has been nominated in the line-up for ‘Best Car Finance Provider’ in this year’s Consumer Credit Awards.
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15th March 2024

£5k prize fund for innovation development up for grabs at Medilink Midlands Business Awards

This year’s Medilink Midlands Business Awards will see a ‘winner of all winners’ awarded a £5,000 prize to help advance their innovation.  
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15th March 2024

Duncan & Toplis ‘On the Road to Net Zero’ by 2032

One of the largest accountants and business advisers in the Midlands, Duncan & Toplis, is aiming to reduce its total carbon emissions to zero within the next five to eight years.
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15th March 2024

Derbyshire colleagues take on daredevil skydive for children’s hospice.

Colleagues from a Derbyshire company are taking to the skies in a daredevil challenge to raise funds for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People.
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14th March 2024

East Midlands Finance Awards 2024: Partnership announced with NOVA

The highly anticipated 2024 East Midlands Finance Awards (EMFA) is proud to announce its partnership with NOVA.
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14th March 2024

Homebuilder gifts £3,000 donation to Nottinghamshire search and rescue

Nottingham-based Barratt and David Wilson Homes North Midlands has donated £3,000 to Nottinghamshire Search and Rescue (NSART).
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14th March 2024

Embassy Luncheon Invitation - 27th March 2024

The Kuku Embassy Luncheons are open to all
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14th March 2024

Little Lives, Big Journeys: Join Leicester Hospitals Charity for the Big Pledge Weekend to keep families together during those vital journeys

In Leicester from Friday 22 to Monday 25 March - The Big Pledge Weekend is set to make a big impact as Leicester Hospitals Charity rallies the community together to support the CenTre Neonatal Transport Service in their mission to enhance the care provide
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14th March 2024

Pektron software engineer Ann is proud to be a role model as she bids for major award

A computer software engineer who started her career in the same year as IBM launched its first home PC is hoping to inspire more women to join the industry after she was nominated for a major award.
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14th March 2024

New tenants take on organic farm on Paget Estate

The historic Paget Estate has announced new tenants for Hungary Lane Farm, which will become the sixth organic farm on the 2,500-acre estate located on the Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire border.
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14th March 2024

Nottinghamshire homebuilder donates £1,500 to mental health charity

A Nottingham-based charity has received a £1,500 donation from Barratt and David Wilson Homes to support its services to provide a peer support group for men that are suffering with their mental health.
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14th March 2024

Earl Shilton Building Society welcomes new Non-Executive Director

Leicestershire based building society esbs has recently welcomed Helen Stevens to the Board as a Non-Executive Director.
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14th March 2024

New workplace designer joins Blueprint Interiors

Workplace consultants and interior fit-out specialists Blueprint Interiors has announced the appointment of Caitlin Houlbrook as a Workplace Designer.
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13th March 2024

Local contractor teams up with Greggs Foundation to help Notts school

Nottingham-based contractor Clegg Food Projects is continuing its long-standing relationship with The Greggs Foundation by sponsoring the Breakfast Club initiative at Highbank Primary and Nursery School in Clifton.
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13th March 2024

Charity bike ride aiming for 1000 smiles from 100 miles steps up a gear with new partnership and top cyclist

A new partnership is getting the wheels rolling on a 100-mile bike ride to support two charities giving low tech breaks to hundreds of Derbyshire children who might not otherwise get a holiday at all.
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13th March 2024

Altia hires new Chair as it eyes further growth in 2024

Nottingham-based investigation tech firm, Altia, has appointed a new Chair as the company looks to strengthen its growth plans throughout 2024 and beyond. 
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13th March 2024

More new jobs created as successful asbestos management consultancy continues to grow

A successful start to 2024 has led to the creation of more new jobs at asbestos management consultancy, Acorn Analytical Services Northampton.
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13th March 2024

Nottingham baby loss charity issues plea for help from local businesses for DIY SOS style QMC project

Baby loss charity Forever Stars has issued an urgent plea to local people, businesses, artists and workers for help with a DIY SOS-style makeover project for Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) Nottingham’s Ward A23 and its garden, where families suffering baby
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13th March 2024

Recycle, Repurpose – And Transform The Lives Of Homeless People

A new programme, devised by the charity Framework, can help businesses recycle domestic or office furniture, electrical appliances, fixtures and fittings and, at the same time, transform the lives of homeless people.
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13th March 2024

New business development manager at frozen food distributor Central Foods

Frozen food distributor Central Foods has appointed a new business development manager.
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13th March 2024

Forthcoming Connect Receptions

Connect Receptions - March/April 24
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13th March 2024

Leicestershire homebuilder donates £$1,500 to cancer charity

A Coalville-based charity has received a £1,500 donation from David Wilson Homes to support its services dedicated to improving the physical appearance and overall wellbeing of people living with cancer.
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12th March 2024

Successful Ratby Shared Ownership development comes to a close

Platform Home Ownership has announced the conclusion of a successful Shared Ownership development in Ratby, in partnership with Miller Homes.
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12th March 2024

WILLSHEE’S TURNS 40!

Burton-based Willshee’s Waste & Recycling is celebrating its 40th anniversary as the company hits £35million turnover and continues its trajectory of 20% year-on-year growth for the 10th consecutive year.
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12th March 2024

Funding to train next generation of chemists to take the East Midlands towards net zero

The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University have been awarded funding for a centre that will train chemists of the future to find new ways to decarbonise manufacturing sectors, and help the East Midlands achieve its net zero target.
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12th March 2024

Newark Market Place to be transformed into Easter ‘egg-stravaganza’

A Nottinghamshire town is set to be taken over with Good Friday fun in aid of local Newark charity, Beaumond House Hospice Care.
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12th March 2024

Menswear designer finds right fit at Vulcan Works

A menswear designer, who was one of the first to move into Northampton’s Vulcan Works, has praised the workspace for establishing ‘a hub of creatives’ that has helped him to grow his business.
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12th March 2024

Local hospice receives £100k funding to help Derbyshire care homes and their residents

Local charity Treetops Hospice has received £100,000 funding to help Derbyshire care homes support residents who are approaching the end of their life.
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12th March 2024

Northampton homebuilder raises over £20,000 in cycling challenge

Barratt Homes Northampton is celebrating the efforts of its team that took on a cycling challenge to raise money for Northamptonshire Health Charity.
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12th March 2024

Croots Farm Shop celebrates British Pie Award accolade

Popular Derbyshire farm shop Croots is celebrating winning an award at the annual British Pie Awards.
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12th March 2024

Top Service Providers Share Best Practice

More than 40 representatives of some of the UK’s top venues, ticket operators and event organisers have come together to share good practice about improving accessibility for disabled people at an event organised by Derby-based Nimbus Disability.
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12th March 2024

£7M START UP LOANS DELIVERED IN THE EAST MIDLANDS

Financing supports the over 50s to pursue their business dreams.
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12th March 2024

Funding award for Nottingham project set to reduce CO2 emissions through AI

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have received a share of one billion pounds for a project aiming to reduce CO2 emissions through the creation of an AI model that will improve the accuracy of short-range weather forecasting for photovoltaic (PV
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11th March 2024

Two new flatbread wraps launched by Baked Earth Bakery

Baked Earth Bakery has launched two new flatbread wraps for the food service sector.
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11th March 2024

World-class athletes to join 1,000 runners signed-up for SportsShoes.com inaugural Podium Festival on March 16 in Leicester

World-class athletes will feature alongside 1,000 runners at SportsShoes.com’s inaugural Podium Festival, a community running and brand exhibition event being held on March 16 at New College, Leicester.
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11th March 2024

NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE ACHIEVES OUTSTANDING OFSTED GRADE FOR ITS RESIDENTIAL PROVISION

Nottingham College has received its first Outstanding Ofsted grade at its most recent inspection, marking the start of a new chapter for the college as it continues its journey towards becoming an Outstanding college, over the next three years.
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11th March 2024

Freeths advises on launch of UK’s first ever low-carbon food production campus

National law firm Freeths has advised SmartParc on the development of an innovative low carbon energy solution for a major food production and distribution hub in Derby.
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11th March 2024

New starter at FPA Consulting

Derby based independent management consultancy FPA Consulting has expanded its team following the appointment of Hannah Smith.
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11th March 2024

Allison Homes East appoints new Planning Director

Housebuilder Allison Homes East has welcomed Georgina McCrae to the team as Planning Director, to help its growth across the region.
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11th March 2024

NOTTINGHAM BUSINESSES BACKING YOUNG CREATIVES

The closing date for entries of this year’s Nottingham Young Creative Awards is fast approaching on 15 March 2024 and business leaders in the city are encouraging young people to get involved.
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11th March 2024

BELMAYNE LAUNCHES CHARITY WALK TO MARK ANNIVERSARY

Independent financial planners, Belmayne, are preparing to celebrate the firm’s 20th anniversary by tackling a 20-mile sponsored hike around their home town of Dronfield.
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11th March 2024

Derby Cathedral Quarter BID announces trio of fun events coming to the city this summer

An exciting line up of summer events in Derby has been announced by the Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID).
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11th March 2024

Derbyshire recycled plastic furniture company helps public get planting with raised bed naming contest

An award-winning Derbyshire sustainable business making recycled plastic outdoor furniture is helping the public get into the growing spirit by launching a competition to name its latest design: a flat pack raised bed.
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11th March 2024

NET CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH 20 ACTS OF KINDNESS

THIS March marks Nottingham Express Transit (NET)’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate, the network is treating tram users to a whole year of surprises and treats.
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11th March 2024

Rail firm MTMS supports training of young people with donation to Derbyshire sea cadets

Young Derbyshire sea cadets have been given a welcome boost to help with training after a generous donation from a Midlands rail maintenance firm.
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