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Sixty B4 members and guests were treated to a wonderful evening of fine dining and entertainment in the saloon at Blenheim Palace on Wednesday 30th October. Our host, Blenheim CEO, Dominic Hare, welcomed guests with an engaging update on progress to date and plans for the future.
On Thursday 10th October, NEXUS, a new programme designed by B4 (Oxfordshire’s leading B2B networking organisation) to inspire collaboration within Oxfordshire’s business community, was launched at Jurys Inn.
Embracing diversity and an ageing population in the workplace. At You HR Consultancy we work hard to practice what we teach and creating a diverse workforce is an important part of who we are.
Blenheim is encouraging its managerial staff to undertake free training to recognise the signs and symptoms of mental ill-health.
If you’re not actively recruiting talent your competitors probably are.
The most talked-about diet right now is the plant-based diet; the new name for vegan. Plant-based diets have been growing in popularity over the past few years but growth has been accelerated or at least discussion around turning plant-based, by the documentary Game Changer.
We’ve all said it ‘‘doesn’t that policeman/solicitor/doctor look young’’. A sure sign that we’re all getting older. And the fact is, that we are getting older, and for every year that passes in our working lives, another wave of young, fresh, technologically advanced employees enters the workforce, bringing with them fresh ideas, new ways of working, and high levels of expectations.
It’s Apprenticeships Week and we’re joined by: Mel Ringer of Oxlep, Paddy Patterson of the Apprenticeship Intermediary Service and Megan Carter of Blenheim Palace.
An Oxfordshire HR consultancy empowering individuals to take control of their own happiness at work is looking forward to a bright future at the Witney Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) after securing funding following a Dragons’ Den-style pitch.
Blenheim is encouraging its managerial staff to undertake free training to recognise the signs and symptoms of mental ill-health.
Oxfordshire businesses are invited to dispel myths and reduce the stigma around employing disabled people at a local conference in East Oxford.
Customer Services Apprentice, Nicole Nielsen-Pike, is to take on the starring role in Blenheim Palace’s ‘Alice in the Palace’ festive celebrations.
B4 has launched a new monthly business podcast featuring business leaders discussing topical issues. The first episode is available now to listen to on Soundcloud presented by Emma Gascoigne from Big Foot Communications and joined by guests Frank Nigriello, Corporate Affairs Director at Unipart Group and Simon Biltcliffe, CEO of Webmart. In the 20 minute podcast, Frank and Simon discuss the opportunities and threats of digitalisation and stress the importance of working with schools to help plug the digital skills gap.
Oxfordshire Voice and some of the key founding members of the organisation have been meeting recently to mark an important and symbolic event.
Oxfordshire Voice has been set up to find solutions for the key challenges facing Oxfordshire businesses. Whilst many solutions have and are being implemented by businesses on a daily basis (flexible working, car pooling etc….) to overcome these challenges, larger policy related changes may well take years to implement.