NEWS
Forever Young – Even Spring Chickens Age
I never really thought about ageing much when I was a young mother but from fifty years onwards I became much more aware of my ageing parents and family friends and I realised that chronic health problems begin to catch up with us eventually. It is the most natural process that the human body goes [...]
Young Start-up Talent Sussex -Winner revealed
Toby Gillett, 18, from Crawley Down, who attends Imberhorne school, won Young Start-up Talent Sussex. The evening was hosted by Lorraine Nugent, MD of Horsham based PR and Marketing agency Media Word Waves, and Matt Turner, MD Of Creative Pod. For more details please use the following link: Full Story
Young Start-up Talent – Final show just days away !
The winner of the £50,000 prize fund for the Gatwick Diamond’s entrepreneurial initiative, Young Start-up Talent, will be announced at an impressive show at the Copthorne Effingham Hotel on Thursday 29th March. The evening will be hosted by the founders of the competition, Lorraine Nugent, MD of Sussex PR and Marketing agency Media Word Waves, [...]
“Trust me, I’m a professional trustee”
Professional trustee Maralyn Thomas compares her work to “constantly treading on eggshells” as she jostles the varying interests of a pension scheme’s board of trustees with those of the sponsoring employer, when aiming to ensure that the pension scheme is run as well as possible. Used to dealing with the upper echelons and captains of [...]
Jobs board offers free advertising for employers!
Job seekers and Employers in the Gatwick Diamond can match each other’s needs online, thanks to a dedicated job board for the business region which was launched in January with around 200 vacancies already being shown. Some of the area’s key organisations are backing GatwickDiamondJobs.com, which aims to help local people find local jobs and [...]
Finalists selected for Young Start-up Talent
The local competition for 16-21 year olds with an entrepreneurial flair for business is reaching the closing stages with five finalists selected. Judges and Sponsors include leading executives from Thales, Lloyds TSB, British Airways, Gatwick Airport, Rawlinson Butler and Richard Place Dobson. The competition offers a £50,000 prize fund worth of products and services to [...]
All the (business) world’s a stage
Businesses are latching on to the benefits that drama methods can bring to all levels of the corporate structure. “Techniques used in actor training can be applied successfully to multiple situations in business,” says Julia Martin of Dramaworks, who will present some of the benefits of this new form of training at next Tuesday’s (7 February) Business Builder [...]
Pension Auto-Enrolment
The Government has confirmed that the auto-enrolment pension scheme has been pushed back for SMEs. Firms employing between 30 and 49 staff will not now have to enrol staff until 1 August 1 2015 at the earliest. Those businesses with fewer than 30 staff will not have to comply until 1 January 2016 at the [...]
Speaker for February announced…
Our speaker on February 7th is Julia Martin from Dramaworks. Julia will be outlining ways in which drama therapy can have a major impact on the way businesses and their people perform. The session promises to be highly interactive and lots of fun. Book now!
