People

Your people are your most valuable asset when running a successful business. Here you will find content relating to topics such as HR, Training, Recruitment, Fitness and Mental Health and much more.

Community Building, Health | Oxfordshire

Children, Young Carers & COVID

B4Tue 2nd Feb 202113 min

Over the past year the world we once knew has become very different for all of us. We’ve all faced personal and professional challenges on a different scale and there’s no real light at the end of the tunnel. But most of us reading this will be of a certain age, we’ve lived our lives to some extent, we’ve experienced things we can, for the time being anyway, no longer experience. Not everyone can handle that, no matter how insignificant those experiences are in the grand scheme of things, they’re important to someone.

Education, Health, People | National

Children, Young Carers & COVID

B4 NewsdeskTue 2nd Feb 20211 min

B4 Members discuss the direct and indirect impacts of COVID on the lives of children and young carers.

Community Building, Education, Health

Children, Young Carers & COVID

B4 NewsdeskTue 2nd Feb 20211 min

B4 Members discuss the direct and indirect impacts of COVID on the lives of children and young carers.

Coaching, Health, Workplace Wellbeing | Oxfordshire

Start the year with new skills in a positive atmosphere

Oxford Brookes Business SchoolFri 29th Jan 20212 min

Silent Mindfulness Online Day Retreat, ILM5 Coaching and Mentoring Programme & Coaching Supervision Programme.

Health, Manufacturing, Office Refurbishment | Oxfordshire

COEL prioritise provision of quality of care in their work for...

B4 NewsdeskFri 29th Jan 20211 min

Cleanliness and efficiency are key in healthcare design and in the provision of quality of care.

Health, Leisure, Workplace Wellbeing | Oxfordshire

Maymessy, New Year, New Pivot

B4 NewsdeskFri 29th Jan 20213 min

Happy New Year to you all. Another National lockdown and another pivot. Maymessy is getting good at this and, although it is frustrating closing the cookery school, we enjoy making new contacts and the reward of seeing how Oxfordshire pulls together.

Business Strategy, Community Building, Networking | Oxfordshire

B4 Embarks on National Expansion

B4Thu 28th Jan 20217 min

B4, Oxfordshire’s leading business to business network, launched in 2006 and celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2021, has now launched nationally, providing businesses across the UK with fantastic opportunities to connect and secure excellent profile across B4’s growing digital audience.

Coaching, Leadership, Sales & Marketing | Oxfordshire

Growing Stronger Through a ‘COVID-Challenged’ Year

B4 NewsdeskWed 27th Jan 20218 min

Jackie Jarvis, The Walking Business Coach and Co-Founder of Natural Netwalking asks a selection of Oxfordshire’s business owners to share the ways in which they have grown stronger during these unprecedented times.

Charities, Health | Oxfordshire

Charity warns of epidemic of loneliness in Oxfordshire as lockdowns reduce...

Oxfordshire Community FoundationMon 25th Jan 20214 min

A new report from Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF) suggests that loneliness is driven by feelings of disconnection from civic life rather than distance from people, with urban residents most likely to feel lonely. It says charities are reporting increased demand for support.

EDI, Recruitment, Training | Oxfordshire

Businesses focus on employability skills

B4Thu 21st Jan 20212 min

With employability looming as one of the major issues for 2021, a group of Oxfordshire business representatives have started working on how the next generation of employees can be better prepared for work.

Oxford United in the Community Virtual Coffee Mornings

Charities, Health, Sport | Oxfordshire

Oxford United in the Community Extend Virtual Coffee Mornings

B4 NewsdeskWed 20th Jan 20212 min

Oxford United in the Community will again provide support to the over 70s during the latest COVID-19 lockdown by hosting a new series of virtual coffee mornings to help tackle loneliness.

Charities, Education, Sport, Training | Oxfordshire

Oxford United In The Community To Provide Kickstart Job Opportunities For...

B4 NewsdeskMon 18th Jan 20213 min

Oxford United in the Community is offering young people the chance to work within the charity as part of the government’s Kickstart scheme.

Training | Oxfordshire

Just Launched: Diploma in Workplace Data Protection with CPD Accredited Modules

DatabasixMon 18th Jan 20212 min

2020 was a very challenging year for anyone responsible for HR, whether this was implementing the job retention scheme (furlough), supporting redundancy decisions, ensuring all remote working staff didn’t feel overwhelmed and isolated, introducing new HR software systems, or recruiting during the pandemic using video technology. It was during the first national lockdown that Sally […]

Charities, Health | Oxfordshire

Requests for COVID-19 charitable funding soar as philanthropists urge people to...

Oxfordshire Community FoundationThu 14th Jan 20213 min

Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s latest grants round, opened last week in response to lockdown 3, has been overwhelmed with applications from local charities, indicating a great continued frontline need. The charity and its donors are therefore appealing for the public to give in support of this response.

Charities, Health | Oxfordshire

Sobell House

Sobell House founded in 1976, was one of the earliest UK hospices. Since then, we have been providing specialist palliative care to patients and their families at home, in the Oxford hospitals, and in our purpose-built hospice on the Churchill Hospital site.

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