Businesses have been invited by Tamworth Borough Council to get involved in the initiative which will help them to improve their use of social media for promotion and to drive both sales and footfall to the town centre.
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Industry specialists are helping plumbing and heating engineers in Staffordshire to become more ‘Eco-savvy’, while bridging a ‘sizable’ industry skills gap. Staffordshire Training Services have been awarded a Government grant – aimed at filling an industry-wide skills gap centred around the installation of heat pumps, as well as meeting policy targets
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Student interns from Staffordshire University have been getting hands on work experience at a range of exciting creative companies. The ‘Best Summer Job Ever’ scheme offered four-week paid internships to aspiring creatives from across Staffordshire. After a competitive application process, five Staffordshire University students from across Graphic Design, Cartoon and
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Staffordshire Chambers’ Start-Up programme is celebrating another milestone after helping its 2,000th business to get off the ground in the county.
And applications for the programme’s next free-to-attend cohort are now open for would-be entrepreneurs.
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Grants of up to £4,000 are now available to generate growth in arts, culture and heritage activity in the Staffordshire Moorlands. The District Council is funding this grant scheme from its share of the UK Shared Prosperity and Rural England Prosperity Funds. The aim of the programme is to generate
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A major highways improvements scheme in Newcastle-under-Lyme has got underway. The £600,000 scheme is being carried out by Staffordshire County Council and is part of a wider £50 million investment in the county’s roads over the next three years. The work on the A519 Brook Lane is expected to take
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A pub company, a brewer and a waste management firm combined forces to take part in a clean-up operation at Cannock Chase. Staff from Punch Pubs & Co, Molson Coors Beverage Company, both based in Burton upon Trent, and Biffa were among 100 volunteers who collected 73kg of waste from
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The first apprentices have now embarked on a game-changing learning and career path that will teach them how to repair digital devices like mobile phones.
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A North Staffordshire training firm – which has been operating for more than two decades – says it has been able to expand its support to hundreds of emergency staff thanks to its own “lived experiences”. Abacus Training has been delivering specialist pre-hospital care courses to Staffordshire Fire and Rescue
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A million meals have been provided for children in Stoke-on-Trent by a charity that aims to transform the lives of young people and their families in the city. The Hubb Foundation served up its milestone dish at Co-op Academy Glebe in Fenton, on August 28. Launched in 2018 by Port
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