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Shortlist success for The Hallam i-Lab
the Accelerator of the Year category at the Yorkshire Financial Awards. The award recognises the best
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incubation and accelerator programmes in Yorkshire, dedicated to encouraging local entrepreneurs and start-ups to flourish whilst offering high-tech facilities and support services. The shortlisting comes after significant growth in membership of those using the facility since its opening in 2019, more than tripling to 214 in November 2020. The business incubation space
also plays a key role within ScaleUp 360, a programme tailored to support entrepreneurs and start- ups in the Sheffield City Region scale up their business. The ScaleUp 360 programme is
delivered by an expert partnership led by Sheffield Hallam University, with The Business Village @
heffield Hallam’s business incubation space, The Hallam i-Lab, has been shortlisted in
BarnsleyBIC, Doncaster Chamber of Commerce and East Midlands Chamber of Commerce. One start-up who used the base
of the Hallam i-Lab to boost their business is Loro Crisps, a food company who joined the ScaleUp 360 programme to grow their company into a global brand. Daniela Orrego,
Founder of Loro Crisps, said: “It has been very beneficial for us to have access to different mentors in the Sheffield Hallam i-Lab co-working space where we are based. This has helped us to solve day to day challenges and questions and helped us to focus on the bigger issues for the future of our company.” Darren Chouings, Business
‘The Hallam i-Lab is now a
well-established dynamic hub’
Loro Crisps Founders Natalie Welch and Daniela Orrego grown in the last couple of years. “The Hallam i-Lab is now a well-
Incubation Manager at the Hallam i- Lab, said: “It is fantastic that we have been shortlisted for this award and a recognition of how we have
established dynamic hub for entrepreneurial students, graduates as well as space to help SMEs in the Sheffield City Region grow through the ScaleUp 360 programme. “I am especially proud of the
way the team have responded to the challenge of Covid-19, adapting
Black Diamonds tour to bring stately home to life
Black Diamonds, the book that revealed the untold story of Wentworth Woodhouse, brought the Rotherham stately home international fame. Author Catherine Bailey achieved
her aim. She wrote the best-seller in 2007 to highlight the plight of ‘England’s forgotten palace’. Now Catherine has again put pen
to paper to help the house, which has been closed for much of the pandemic. She has created the first ever Black Diamonds Tour for the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust (WPT). A must-do experience for fans of
the book, the tour will launch when the house re-opens after Covid-19 restrictions ease, hopefully in the spring. It will take visitors on a fascinating journey into the house’s past, detailing life above and below stairs, and into rooms no tour has previously entered. “Catherine is passionate about
the house and telling its story and was very excited to be involved,” said WPT’s Visitor Operations Manager Jen Booth. “Her script brings to life the
tasks of the servants, from preparing feasts for the Earls’ house parties to the daily drudgery of carrying bathwater along
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endless corridors. The tour also focuses on the Rockinghams and Fitzwilliams and the splendour they lived in, with visits to the George IV Suite in the South Wing, where The Prince of Wales, destined to be George IV, stayed. The suite was later occupied by Princess Victoria and her mother the Duchess of Kent, and King George V and Queen Mary. “The suite’s Blue Bedroom,
Crimson Velvet Rooms and Green Bedroom have never previously been seen by the public and are certain to be a highlight.” Catherine Bailey was moved to
write Black Diamonds after visiting as a TV researcher in 1999, eight years before the Trust now regenerating the house bought it for £7m. The author came back to
Wentworth Woodhouse pre- lockdown and walked through the rooms featured in her pages to create a pathway for the tour, which will run once a day, Wednesday to Sunday. Jen added: “Tickets are not yet
on sale, but gift vouchers can be purchased.”
Gift vouchers are available at wentworthwoodhouse.digitickets.
co.uk
Black Diamonds author Catherine Bailey, pictured in the Marble Saloon at Wentworth Woodhouse
workshops with pandemic related information, including funding opportunities, and providing more one-to-one guidance to ensure that companies survive and thrive in these challenging times.” The Yorkshire Financial Awards
celebrate the achievements and successes of the region’s best and brightest within the financial services industry.
Picture by Dean Atkins Photography.
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