Integrated communications agency, Pier has become the first organisation in Suffolk to achieve a Healthy Workplace Award. The award is organised by Public Health Suffolk and other health partners, including West Suffolk Council who also supported the assessment. It offers businesses of all sizes in the region the opportunity to become accredited in eight standards:…
Facility management provider, Vertas Environmental (waste and recycling division of Vertas Group Limited) and waste experts Sackers Ltd have a working partnership to deliver sustainable waste solutions for Ipswich Town Football Club. Sackers, which has a robust sustainable business model for its commercial waste collections, has started working with Vertas Environmental at ITFC. Jointly they…
A rapidly-growing Suffolk company is celebrating securing a high-profile contract to supply converted shipping containers for a new seafront attraction in Felixstowe. Portable Space, based at Bacton, will supply 16 converted shipping containers for Beach Street Felixstowe, next to Mannings Amusement Park, which will comprise over 1,000 square metres of unique outlets, including street food…
The developer of the Haverhill Research Park, Jaynic has signed up Oxford Innovation to run the Epicentre building. The Epicentre innovation centre, which will open this autumn, will have over 60 office suites from 17sqm (172 sqft) up to 78sqm (840sqft), although larger open plan requirements could be accommodated now of up to 600sqm (6500sqft)….
TWO senior Suffolk teachers have joined forces to launch an innovative linguistics business. Emily Kerrison and Debbie Leadbetter believe the region could soon become an exemplar for how foreign languages can be learned and appreciated by both children and adults. Their business, Language Town, will use a mix of individual and group tuition, as well…
A production of Aladdin in Mildenhall is being sponsored by homebuilder Barratt Homes. The Bunbury Players Amateur Dramatics Group’s panto runs from Wednesday to Saturday this week at the Jubilee Centre in Mildenhall. Cash needed for putting on productions is increasing every year for the Bunbury Players, and Barratt Homes stepped in to help fund…
A Suffolk organisation has responded to the growing call for family support among those contending with eating disorders. Wednesday’s Child, a not-for-profit established last summer, is to deliver a six-month free programme aimed at parents, grandparents and spouses. The announcement follows a recent report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists which highlights that people with…
Staff at Suffolk firm Roland Plastics have gathered to celebrate the 50-year career of their colleague and friend, 78-year-old Bob Bullard. Having started his professional life as an apprentice through Civic College for Cocksedges, Bob went on to work for Foulger Eng, before then moving to Roan Toolmakers, which was taken over by Girdlestone Mouldings…