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Capability Crunch

Small and mediumsized businesses report significantly lower capabilities in areas linked to high productivity, according to worrying new research by Be the Business, a charity that champions small business productivity.

Altered Carbon

Sheffield firm Tomson Consulting Ltd’s advice has cut co2 emissions in Sheffield by 169 tonnes. The consultancy, owned by Faye Tomson, were brought in by Sheffield City Council as part of a low carbon business support programme targeting SMEs across South Yorkshire to reduce environmental impact.

Royal Seal Of Approval

A Doncaster-based technology company, which became an unsung hero of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been honoured with the first ever King’s Award for Innovation.

Park Hill Arrivals

Here’s whyy? they got the nod

Whyy? Change has been shortlisted for four awards at the South Yorkshire Apprenticeship Awards, including the prestigious title of Training Provider of the Year.

The Rotherham based apprenticeship training provider has also seen two of their employees nominated for three separate apprenticeship awards.

With Emma Harrison, Managing Director of Whyy? Change, shortlisted for Higher Apprentice of the Year, which celebrates the success of apprentices on a Level 4 (Foundation degree equivalent) apprenticeship in South Yorkshire.

Emma’s recent success of becoming the World’s First Ever Quality Practitioner Apprentice to achieve a Distinction and achieving Practitioner status with the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) has been recognised by her colleagues and now the judges at the South Yorkshire Apprenticeship Awards.

Matthew Trueman, Head of Communications at Whyy? Change has been shortlisted for not just one, but two apprenticeship awards.

Ray Byrne, CEO of Whyy? Change shared his thoughts: “We enter the South Yorkshire Apprenticeship Awards every year because year-onyear it turns out we have a success story to tell. In 2021 and again in 2022 we were short-listed in one category. Today we are short-listed in four categories. This is progress, and only goes to show that the ‘WHY & HOW’ do lead to positive outcomes.”

Sheffield’s Park Hill development, a joint venture between Urban Splash and Places for People, has announced that property consultants, Inform Surveying, and creative studio, Field, will soon open within phase two at the site.

Mission To Jupiter

A mission to search for signs of life on Jupiter and its three icy moons launched on 13 April 2023, with help from researchers at the University of Sheffield.