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Travis Perkins reaches halfway milestone in charity partnership
Travis Perkins is celebrating the halfway point of its three- year charity partnership with Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland, with customers and colleagues across the business raising over £300,000.
The partnership, voted for by colleagues, is designed to raise vital funds for care, support
BHETA
and ground-breaking research, while also raising awareness of dementia amongst Travis Perkins’ colleagues, customers, and local communities. With one in three people born in the UK today expected to develop dementia, the impact of this work is already being felt across the business and beyond. So far, fundraising efforts have
enabled life-changing support that helps people living with dementia and their carers adjust to their condition and manage it day- to-day. In fact, the fundraising has meant an equivalent of 362 families receive dementia support. Alongside this, funds also contributed towards pioneering research and community-based initiatives in Scotland.
restructures senior
management team
BHETA’s Chief Operating Officer Will Jones is to step back from the day to day running of the association in January 2026 to focus on the delivery of the Exclusively Show as Exhibition Director. At BHETA a new position of General Manager has been created which will be filled by Stephen Richardson, who is the current Marketing Director. Both positions will report to Andrew Weiss, BHETA’s Executive Chair. The role of Exhibition Director will be to maintain Exclusively’s market-leading position through the expansion of the show’s content and initiatives. This will be achieved by harnessing effective support from the shows management team, comprising of sales, marketing, finance, and operations personnel plus external liaison with the venues senior team.
The new position of General Manager will assume responsibility for overseeing and delivering BHETA’s strategy in all market sectors as well as heading up day to day operations in support of all membership activity.
Blanchard’s and Malletts win Home Hardware’s Cookshop Window Dressing competition
Marketplace expert, Nils Kernchen works with Daley Hub
Blanchard’s Home Hardware, Bideford (above) and Malletts Home Hardware, Truro (inset) have jointly won this year’s Home Hardware Cookshop Window Dressing Competition each receiving £100 in M&S vouchers. Abbotts DIY (Ottery St Mary) received the Runner’s Up prize.
The competition was
introduced to support the Cookshop Catalogue and to
inspire retailers to create eye- catching window displays. The results speak for themselves. All Home Hardware retailers were invited to participate in the competition, and the overall standard of entry was exceptionally high. The competition was judged by an independent panel. Home Hardware would like to thank all members who participated in the competition.
Charles Bentley celebrates 165 years in business with new generation at the helm One of Leicestershire’s
oldest family-run businesses, Charles Bentley & Son Ltd, is celebrating a remarkable milestone in 2025 as it celebrates 165 years of trading.
Founded in Loughborough in 1860, the business has grown from humble beginnings as a small brush-making enterprise into the UK’s leading manufacturer of quality brushware and a trusted name supplying a wide range of home, garden, and leisure products.
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The anniversary comes at a landmark moment for the company, as James Bentley steps up to take the reins of
Nils Kernchen, former platform developer for DIY and garden marketplace, Mano Mano in Germany and the UK is to work with home improvement market specialist and strategic development agency, Daley Hub. Kernchen will be focussing on helping Daley Hub clients develop their strategy for marketplaces as well as assisting them with technical development and onboarding territory by territory. Kernchen has nine years of marketplace experience worked with Mano Mano in its formative years prior to developing a digital platform for boating products. He then returned to home improvement, working with Amsterdam-based marketplace
agency, ChannelMojo. He is now a freelance associate of both ChannelMojo and Daley Hub, offering clients end to end support in developing and managing their marketplace presence.
Boxers Join Doors2Floors eight-mile charity run
Some of Yorkshire’s biggest names in boxing are set to take part in an eight-mile charity run later this month, raising vital funds for Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice. The event, known as Run2Help, organised by Doors2Floors, a Batley-based company keen to give something back to the community, will see runners make the journey from Dickys Gym in Batley to the forget me not Hospice in Huddersfield. Participants will then be given an opportunity to walk to Brighouse Boxing Club.
The initiative is also backed by the Batley Multi Academy Trust, who will be providing support by working with students to showcase the benefits of working with charities and supporting community based initiatives.
the business, becoming the sixth generation of the Bentley family to lead the firm. James’ promotion signals a new era for the company, blending fresh ideas with the values and traditions that have guided the business for over a century and a half.
Among those lacing up their running shoes are the British and Commonwealth super middleweight and European super-middleweight Champion, Callum Simpson, Sylwia Doligala, the Central Area Champion, Jasmina Zapotoczna, the EBU Flyweight and WBA International Champion, along with Nabil Ahmed, Cory O’Regan, and Brighouse’s own Jimmy First, a former Central Area Champion.
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