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Last week saw the launch of Hyper Island coming to Yorkshire. Along with Inspiral, we helped out with the events in Leeds at the Round Foundry and in Sheffield at Electric Works.
Hyper Island is seen as the ‘Oxbridge of digital media training’ and will be running the Accidental Leaders and Managers Programmes in Leeds and Sheffield in spring 2010. For more information, see here.
Tags: electric works, Events, hyper island, inspiral, leeds, round foundry, Sheffield
Last night saw Sheffield’s business community come together under one roof for the annual Business Awards at Ponds Forge. A big well done to our friends Tom and Mike at Kitlocker.com.
Winners on the night were:
The Amey Environmental Impact Award: Office Friendly Dealer Association
The ask4 Excellence in Retail Services Award: Kitlocker.com
The BiG Business Enterprise Award: AG Wind Power
The Business Link Yorkshire Creative & Digital Industries Innovation Award: ZOO Digital Group plc
The Creative Sheffield, Sheffield Champion Award: DavyMarkham Ltd
The Freeman College Community Impact Award Winner: The United Initiative
The Irwin Mitchell Excellence in Customer Service Award: Sheffield International Venues
The NHS Sheffield Healthy Business Award: Specsavers Opticians, Crystal Peaks
The City Strategy Excellence in Skills Award: Insight Direct UK
The UK Trade & Investment Excellence in International Trade Award: MTL Group Ltd
The Wake Smith Excellence in Manufacturing Award: MTL Group Ltd
The Williams Fasteners Excellence in Sports Services Award: Sheffield United PLC
The Sheffield Hallam University Young Business Person of the Year Award: Andrew Seaton from Resolve IT Solutions Ltd
The Rensburg Sheppards Business Person of the Year Award: Kevin Parkin of DavyMarkham Ltd
The Barclays Commercial Bank Outstanding Business of the Year Award: DavyMarkham
Yesterday saw the first ‘open consultation’ for Sheffield’s bid to become the first UK City of Culture in 2013 at The Millennium Galleries (which was hosted by Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy). We were asked to invite a few of the key people working in the city’s creative/cultural industries along.
The event itself showed there was a good mix of people from various backgrounds who support Sheffield’s bid. There is still a lot of work to do, but the shortlist should be announced early December…
Eitherway, win or lose, we should use this opportunity to come together, show off what the city has to offer and build on the momentum…
Tags: City of Culture, Event, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, TFCC
Last night saw Coco Catering host a special event at Menzel’s to celebrate their Christmas menu. Guests were treated to some festive canapes, and there was a Christmas themed quiz with some nice food/drink related prizes. They were also celebrating moving to new premised in December.
Tags: Christmas, Coco Catering, Events, Menzel's, Ralph Razor
Last night saw The Cuckoo Clocks take over The Lantern Theatre in Nether Edge, Sheffield for their 2nd gig. The sold-out event, entitled ‘The Home Grown Gramophone Show’, had support from various cabaret acts.
Watch this space for news of the band’s 3rd gig…
Tags: gigs, The Cuckoo Clocks, The Lantern Theatre