AN EXCITING free event will celebrate the role of women in business. To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, Cumbria Chamber of Commerce will host a live panel event with 5 local leading businesswomen. The free event will bring together women from the county with different professional backgrounds to discuss the advice, both good and bad, that they have received throughout their careers. Suzanne Caldwell, Managing Director of the Chamber is one of the panelists and she is excited to be taking part. She said: “It’s great that we have International Women’s Day to remind us to pause and celebrate what women are doing in all walks of life – in this case women in business around Cumbria.
To celebrate International Women’s Day next Monday, Cumbria Chamber of Commerce is hosting a live panel event with five local leading businesswomen. The free event will bring together women from the county with different professional backgrounds to discuss advice, both good and bad, that they have received throughout their careers..
Grasmere Gingerbread FREE advice and training are being offered to Cumbrian businesses looking for information about how to export their products and services internationally. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can access a range of resources from Sarah Peak, Cumbria’s export manager, who is working with the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership (CLEP). The support includes
The Export Academy – a free training programme to help small and micro businesses understand all they need to know about selling internationally. International trade expert Chris Baxter provides guidance through ten, one-hour educational sessions running twice a week during March. To find out more, email sarah.peak@tradenw.org.
A MENTAL health resource book has been launched to help children, parents, carers and professionals to cope with the changes and emotions children may be feeling during the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Living in Lockdown – Our Children Remember is a project by Furness Education and Skills Partnership (FESP), supported by local schools, Barrow Integrated Care Community and local third sector organisations and funded by Barrow and Millom Primary Care Network. As part of the project, 10 schools across Barrow were partnered with mental health practitioners to capture their children’s experiences through the pandemic, along with their feelings, their strategies for resilience and their hopes for the future.
Representatives of a dark-money political action committee signed a guilty plea Friday admitting involvement in a massive bribery scheme in Ohio to protect a $1 billion nuclear plant bailout.
The plea agreement comes seven months after the arrest of former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and several others on charges of participating in what federal prosecutors describe as the largest political corruption case in Ohio history.
Prosecutors say the political group, Generation Now, received tens of millions of dollars that Householder and others used to pay bribes, fund his own political activities and run a public campaign supporting the nuclear bailout.