MANUFACTURERS are facing staff shortages and supply chain disruption which reinforces the need to attract young people into the sector, according to a leading figure in Yorkshire’s textile industry.
WOMEN working as freelancers across the North West are accessing new opportunities thanks to a programme launched by IN4.0. East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce members IN4.0 specialise in providing digital skills consultancy and hope that the FreelanceHER 100 programme will help to address gender imbalances in the media, digital and technology sectors while also helping women who may have lost their jobs during the pandemic. A great example to women who join the programme is Naomi Timperley, FreelanceHER 100 programme director and Computer Weekly most influential woman in UK Technology 2020. She said “I lost my full-time job during the first month of the first lockdown and went back to freelancing.