Where should businesses focus their efforts to be competitive and grow in the current tough economy?  How do you maximise the assets in your business and what skills do your management team need? Keith Williams, chief executive of British Airways and Neil Gaydon former chief executive of Pace are giving their views at a series of [...]

Voluntary sector organisations will receive 100 practical tips to help them deal with the impact of welfare reform and public sector cuts at Involve Yorkshire and Humber’s annual conference in York on June 28. The “Welfare to Where?” conference at the Priory Street Centre, York, looks at how Government reforms and changes will affect the [...]

The chair of a Yorkshire charity is tackling a 24 hour journey on a mobility scooter next month to highlight the everyday challenges facing people with disabilities. Martyn Weller from York will be travelling from Disability Action Yorkshire’s (DAY) Harrogate headquarters to the charity’s new holiday lodge in Kenwick Park Estate, Louth, Lincolnshire on June [...]

Hundreds of people celebrated the achievements of inspirational adult learners from across the region at an awards’ ceremony at Leeds Art Gallery last night (May 17). Twenty winners in the Yorkshire and Humber Adult Learners’ Week Awards 2012 each overcame personal challenges including illness, redundancy, dyslexia and bullying at school, to return to education.  Castleford [...]