Diamond Ambassadors

Pierce Business Advisory & Accountancy Group: Can You Help? Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) in Blackburn is looking to create links with local companies that would be willing to support the school with a range of career activities throughout the academic year. These can include attending their careers fair, providing employer talks, taking part in meet-the-employer events, workplace visits, [...]

Accrington and Rossendale College (ARC), part of Nelson and Colne College Group, is preparing to host an Equal Trades event - designed to promote opportunities for young women in traditionally male-dominated industries such as construction and motor engineering. The event, hosted as part of the Association of Colleges (AOC) Youth Social Action Project, has been developed by first year [...]

Accrington HR & Employment Law Consultancy NORI HR have been confirmed as the new sponsor of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce’s renowned Rush Hour Networking events. Rush Hour is East Lancashire Chamber’s premier networking event. Held in multiple venues across East Lancs, this event brings together businesses of all shapes and sizes in a blaze of coffee, chat and [...]

Blackburn and Bury-based PM+M, the chartered accountancy, business advisory and financial planning group, has strengthened its tax team with the appointment of Sinead Watson who has joined as a tax manager. Sinead began her finance career in 2008 and has spent the last 16 years working at Azets (formerly Baldwins & Cassons Business Advisers LLP). During that time, her [...]

Students at Nelson and Colne College Group are designing their own car, utilising skills used in industry. The metal chassis, donated by employer partner AMRC North West, offers students the opportunity to learn the process of scanning and manufacturing a car body in the same way as it would be replicated in industry. After taking delivery of the car, students [...]

Ribble-Valley based Green Shield Group (GSG) has announced a number of new projects set to begin in 2025 following a strong end to Q4 2024 with the company working locally and nationally to promote sustainable transformation - installing Solar PV and other renewable technologies across a multitude of sectors. Green Shield Group has been appointed by Nelson-based Marsden Building Society. [...]

Burnley College: Calling all budding scientists aged 8 to 11 … Now’s your chance to join an incredible team of Science Explorers – a club where curiosity meets adventure at Burnley College, the Number 1 College in England since 2018*. Designed for inquisitive young minds, the Science Explorers Half-Term Club will ignite imaginations and satisfy the hungriest of scientific [...]

Pierce Business Advisory & Accountancy Group: We are fast approaching a new payroll landscape shaped by the Autumn Budget 2024. The significant changes will have a big impact on employers across the UK. What are the key changes? Coming into effect from 6 April 2025, changes to National Insurance Contributions (NIC): A reduction in the Secondary NIC Threshold for [...]

A team of North West advisers acted on the seven-figure management buy-out of an electrical wholesaler. AA Jones Electric of Hull, founded in 2009, is now one of the region’s leading independents. The buy-out gives control of the business to co-founder Andy Moulds, the Sales Director, and long-standing employee Sam Lomax, who becomes Managing Director. It will allow for [...]

Burnley College and its apprenticeship arm, Themis, has been awarded the prestigious title of Construction Apprenticeship College of the Year. The Construction Apprenticeship Awards took place at a lavish ceremony in Manchester. The awards are to “to highlight and honour the dedication, hard work and outstanding contributions [of those who] play a vital role in shaping the future of [...]