75 people braved Storm Babet to sleep out on the streets of Leeds for a local homelessness charity, helping to raise almost £25,000. Sponsored by British online homeware retailer, DUSK.com, West Yorkshire homelessness charity Simon on the Streets held its annual sleep-out event, ‘Simon’s Big Sleep Out’ on Thursday 19th October at Leeds Civic Hall.Read more
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Yorkshire-based charity Simon on the Streets has announced a series of flagship events in October to shine a spotlight on homelessness in Leeds. The charity’s annual Big Sleepout, which aims to raise awareness of the increasing issues faced by those rough sleeping, sofa surfing and at risk of homelessness in our region returns to LeedsRead more
Yorkshire-based off-grid solar power company, Xerogrid has partnered with one of the world’s fastest-growing energy storage system providers, a Forbes China top 50 innovative business, with help from Energy Management and Industrial IoT company, Hark. Leeds-based Xerogrid has been named UK technical partner for China-based Pylontech’s UK market, ‘Powercube’ battery systems to provide UK customersRead more
West-Yorkshire-based homelessness charity Simon on the Streets has made two new appointments to its fundraising team. Simon on the Streets, which offers practical and emotional support to rough sleepers in Leeds and Bradford has recruited Andy Sharpe as senior fundraiser and Dan Taylor as fundraising assistant. Coming from St George’s Crypt as community and eventsRead more
Award-winning Leeds restaurant chain De Baga has committed to supporting West Yorkshire homelessness charity, Simon on the Streets for the next 12 months. The modern Indian restaurant based in Headingley and Chapel Allerton, North Leeds has signed up to support Simon on the Streets with a ‘£1 on the bill’ initiative where customers can donateRead more
Leeds-based multi-national web development and digital marketing agency GRM Digital has appointed a client services director to strengthen its growing team. Mike Guy joins the company with over a decade’s experience in digital transformation and strategy. Coming from MMT Digital, Mike specialised in delivering strategic client services for digital transformation initiatives in both the publicRead more
Our latest client news comes from Vet-AI and its app Joii Pet Care A study designed to understand how nutrition can influence the quality of life for cats diagnosed with cancer is getting underway this month. Vet-AI, the national vet-tech firm headquartered in Leeds, has partnered with a leading pet food manufacturer to conduct aRead more
Why are the first few weeks of the year in PR land so crazy busy? Well, any company which truly wants great PR should be collecting great data. This allows us to release interesting reviews of the previous year, and this can be for both light-hearted consumer media or robust data suitable for B2B andRead more
A study of 4,170 employees has revealed that the amount of professionals experiencing moderate to high levels of stress has increased, affecting 76% of our workforce, a year-on-year increase of 13%. Worryingly, workers experiencing suicidal thoughts has also increased from 8% to 9%. Data released by global workplace wellbeing provider Champion Health gives an insightRead more
A start-up pet care app which launched in March this year has reached a milestone 50,000 registered pet owners committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of their dogs whilst earning rewards for doing so. Biscuit Pet Care, which has secured £3m in seed funding and is part of the Correlation One Holdings portfolioRead more
