Published on November 18, 2016 at 1:44 pm
The Rossendale Business Awards were a huge success this year, demonstrating the strong, expansive business offer the Valley is home to.
The event, run by Valley at Work, marked its 7th year this year, and each time it gets bigger and better. The selection of winners on the evening demonstrated the strength in tourism, creative business and enterprising people in Rossendale.
Filed under: awards | business | rossendale
Published on October 25, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Double Paralympic silver medallist Tom Hamer was the special guest at Rossendale Leisure Trust’s ‘Celebration of sport’ event at the Riverside, Whitworth.
The event, which took place on Friday 21st October, was part of the Trusts annual acknowledgement of sport in the Valley.
The evening played host to a variety of achievers including teachers and children from Thorn primary school, Ski Rossendale, fundraisers for Rossendale Hospice Vikki Hardwick and Richard Watts, promising badminton player Akshay Narayan and Whitworth Water Ski Academy.
Filed under: leisure | paralympian | rossendale | trust
Published on August 17, 2016 at 2:21 pm
Nominations have opened for the 2016 Rossendale Business Awards, organised by Valley at Work.
The yearly business awards get bigger and better each time and people have until September 23rd to place their nomination.
The awards are to showcase the achievements, quality and diversity of the local businesses and enterprising people who make Rossendale such a great place to love, work and visit.
Filed under: awards | business | rossendale
Published on August 4, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Organisers for the popular Rossendale 60s Festival are appealing to local business to get involved in this years festival by dressing their windows up “60s Style”.
The winners will be choosen by an independent judging panel on Saturday 10th September and will receive a prize and certificate to place in their winning window.
Filed under: 60s | businesses | festival | rossendale | shop | windows
Published on August 1, 2016 at 3:10 pm
3 Children from Rossendale have won a national literacy competition and their stories have been published into the Little Book of Imagination to raise money for Rossendale Hospice.
There were two winners from Rossendale in the Schools category; Sanah Mahmood (2nd winner) entered from Haslingden Primary School and Molly Murray (3rd winner) from Waterfoot Primary School .
Filed under: charity | fundraising | hospice | rossendale
Published on February 24, 2016 at 10:13 am
Members of the Rossendale Together Barnfield Joint Venture Partnership Board have welcomed news that plans to redevelop Rawtenstall town centre have been approved.
Councillor Alyson Barnes, Chair of the RTB Partnership and Leader of the Council, said: “I am pleased the scheme has been given planning permission. We listened to people and now I believe these plans are the right mix of preserving the area’s heritage as well as creating a vibrant town centre.
Filed under: barnfield | development | regeneration | rossendale | together
Published on February 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Boost for Business is running a Flood Recovery Grant Scheme to support businesses severely affected (either directly or indirectly) by the December 2015 flooding in Lancashire and the fund is open until February 28th 2016.
This grant scheme is to support small and medium sized businesses severely affected (either directly or indirectly) by the flooding of December 2015, to help businesses recover quickly and get back trading successfully and being sustainable.
Filed under: business | flooding | lancashire | rossendale | support
Published on February 11, 2016 at 5:01 pm
This is a North West partnership campaign across Cheshire, Merseyside, Blackburn, Blackpool and Lancashire.
1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have suffered domestic abuse. It’s not just physical violence. Domestic abuse can be emotional too – like threats and controlling behaviour. It’s behind closed doors. It’s known, but not talked about.
Filed under: abuse | advice | campaign | council | domestic | help | lancashire | local | partnership | rossendale | support
Published on February 8, 2016 at 2:45 pm
The Rossendale Together Barnfield Joint Venture Partnership (also known as the RTB Partnership) aims to build a more prosperous borough by delivering regeneration projects.
Together Housing Group is one of the partners of the RTB Partnership. Here Together Housing Group director and RTB Partnership Board member Ian Clark talks about the Group’s role on the board and looks at some of the housing developments that have been delivered.
Filed under: barnfield | community | construction | council | housing | improvements | information | regeneration | residents | rossendale | together
Published on February 4, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Marketing Lancashire is celebrating the announcement that the prestigious Visit England Awards for Excellence 2016 which will take place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Tuesday 8 March, during English Tourism Week (5-13 March) and four Lancashire Tourism Awards 2015 winners have beaten strong competition from across the country and will now represent Lancashire as finalists.
Filed under: rossendale | tourism | visit