Harrogate’s Chloe McEwen, the reigning ‘Miss Yorkshire’ who narrowly missed out on Miss England glory, coming an impressive fifth out of 40 contestants, is one of the latest people to become a Suicide Prevention First Aider. Chloe recently attended a suicide prevention training course run by new Yorkshire-based Community Interest Company, HelloHope, to undertake theRead more
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School children across Bradford and Leeds are invited to take part in a Christmas-inspired fundraising event to raise funds for local homelessness charity, Simon on the Streets. Throughout December, hundreds of pupils across several West Yorkshire schools will take part in an ‘Elf Run’ around their schools and local areas dressed as Christmas elves inRead more
The Leeds-based branding agency ALLGOOD is celebrating its twentieth year in business having overcome some huge challenges. Founder Paul Dodd established the business in 2003, originally a creative duo with his best friend James Robinson, to offer branding and design to companies in and around Leeds. The creative pair went their separate ways in 2009Read more
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
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
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
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
More than 100 people have taken to the streets of Leeds to sleep out for a local homelessness charity, helping to raise over £26,000. Sponsored by British online homeware retailer, DUSK, West Yorkshire homelessness charity Simon on the Streets held its annual sleep out event, ‘Simon’s Big Sleep Out’ on Thursday 20th October at LeedsRead more
