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Oxfordshire web and digital agency, Versantus, have secured a prestigious award for one of their flagship website development projects for leading luxury retirement property developer, Audley Villages. The website https://www.audleyvillages.co.uk has been crowned “Best Developer Website United Kingdom” in the UK Property Awards and has won the only 5-star award in the category. The website […]
BGF – the UK’s most active investor – has invested $11 million in Genflow, a London & LA based Influencer brand building agency with a unique ecommerce and mobile tech platform, to support its global expansion plans.
With employability looming as one of the major issues for 2021, a group of Oxfordshire business representatives have started working on how the next generation of employees can be better prepared for work.
Many workplaces have been mothballed or seen limited use for the duration of the last year. During this time of inactivity, a building’s health can incur problems which can cause issues for when a workforce is due to return.
Oxford United in the Community will again provide support to the over 70s during the latest COVID-19 lockdown by hosting a new series of virtual coffee mornings to help tackle loneliness.
Oxford United in the Community is offering young people the chance to work within the charity as part of the government’s Kickstart scheme.
The way we work has gone under a revolutionary change within the last year and whilst we can all enjoy more flexibility in being able to work from home, many of us now appreciate the collaborative space, engagement, technical support, and equipment that a work environment provides. When restrictions are gradually lifted, employees will start to return to their company’s headquarters.
Moorcrofts has bolstered its Commercial Property team with the appointment of highly regarded lawyer Fionnuala Woods, who has joined the firm to meet the needs of its expanding workload and increasing client base.
2020 was a very challenging year for anyone responsible for HR, whether this was implementing the job retention scheme (furlough), supporting redundancy decisions, ensuring all remote working staff didn’t feel overwhelmed and isolated, introducing new HR software systems, or recruiting during the pandemic using video technology. It was during the first national lockdown that Sally […]
You are warmly invited to join us at our next virtual Sobell Business Lunch and hear from our guest speaker, Professor Anand Menon, who will be delivering his thoughts on ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s latest grants round, opened last week in response to lockdown 3, has been overwhelmed with applications from local charities, indicating a great continued frontline need. The charity and its donors are therefore appealing for the public to give in support of this response.
I’ve been helping Rebecca organise her money following the death of her father, who had also been one of our clients.
Moorcroft’s Joint Managing Partner and Head of Technology, Andrew Katz has been named on OpenUK’s Inaugural New Year’s Honours List for his contribution to Open Hardware.
Having wandered relatively blind into the world of webinars early in lockdown, B4 quickly got to grips with delivering regular content from members on a daily basis, culminating with BIO2020 which saw 102 live webinars delivered over three days.
In December 2020, the Cabinet Office announced that unconscious bias training is being phased out of the civil service on the grounds that there is no proof that it changes behaviour and that it may in fact cause a negative response. This comes after a group of MPs previously refused to undergo training on the grounds that it was ‘pandering to the woke agenda’ and it shows the depth of resistance within government to this type of training. But are they right?