A right royal knees-up will take place in 211 streets across West Sussex to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. West Sussex County Council has received over two hundred applications for temporary road closures so street parties can be thrown over the course of the extended Diamond Jubilee weekend. The bank holiday weekend, which lasts from [...]
As the rest of us prepare to relax this Jubilee weekend five intrepid parents will begin to cycle the 900 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats for Sussex’s only children’s hospice. The amateur cyclists will set off on a ten day journey that equals Brighton to Barcelona this Friday. With your help they are [...]
With the Jubilee fast approaching we thought it would be interesting to find out a bit more about a classic “Royal” Job – that of the butler. While you may have thought that this role died out with Downton Abbey, butlers are actually still very much in demand and can command salaries of £35k- £45k*. [...]
A talk by, Lecturer Tim Brady, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM), Brighton Business School, University of Brighton. Thursday 31st May, Mithras House, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4AT (free parking available) In a world where most infrastructure mega-projects fail, the construction of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 bucked the trend. The project was [...]
Here in Crawley we have been fortunate to have lower unemployment that is about half the national average and have seen well over 1,000 local jobs created over the last year. Though this is of course good news, as someone who has been unemployed myself in the past, I appreciate that for those out of [...]
UK football fans travelling to Poland and Ukraine this summer on target to score top value for money Football fan ‘essentials’ are 52 per cent cheaper in Kiev than London Football merchandise up to £40 cheaper in Eastern Europe New stadium craze Zozulica more than half the price of the South African Vuvuzela Football fans [...]
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Too many young people lack the social skills needed to get their first job, says a report on the issue of “Neets”. The Work Foundation says more than 450,000 Neets – youngsters not in education, employment or training – have never had a regular job. Report author Paul [...]
“I think GatwickDiamondJobs.com is a great initiative because what it does is builds up a network of employers, of voluntary sector organisation to provide much more tailored job offers and employment opportunities to the people in the Crawley area. It also helps to create jobs and employment opportunities for Crawley and the wider Gatwick Diamond [...]
Over 70 representatives from the local business community attended this week’s (16th May) St Catherine’s Hospice business supporters’ breakfast at the Ramada Plaza, to network and further explore how they can work in partnership with the charity. A fun challenge saw the delegates group up to devise their ultimate Dragon Boat Festival team, which this [...]
Nearly a quarter of people who joined the government’s Work Programme between June and September 2011 have started work, according to the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), the trade association for the welfare to work industry. Performance ranges between 18% and 26% across different areas and contract packages. According to ERSA, the wage incentive element [...]