Fashion and Lifestyle Former teacher writes new career chapter A former textiles teacher with a passion for utilising traditional skills to create hand-painted fabric signs has launched her own business to supply unique backdrops for events. Sheffield-based Charlotte Scott was inspired to establish Sparrow and Thistle after herself finding it difficult to order bespoke textile signage for her own By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Tingley garden centre celebrates its first gardening season with a spring launch weekend A Tingley garden centre is celebrating springtime and its first gardening season with a celebration launch weekend next month. On the 1st and 2nd of April, visitors to Tingley Garden Centre will be able to see the changes that owners, Yorkshire Garden Centres, have made since it opened in September By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Sheffield’s new city centre park set to open this Easter Sheffield City Centre’s brand-new public space, Pound’s Park, is set to open early to the public on 3 April, so that the new park can be enjoyed over the Easter weekend and school holidays. Named after Sheffield’s first chief fire officer, Superintendent John Charles Pound, the park By The Editor • 3 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Be inspired to take your look from rut to rocking at This is Yorkshire Beauty Event This is Yorkshire Beauty Week is taking place in May this year, when a host of events will take place 22-26 in Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and York celebrating the region’s love of all things beauty. Created by Yorkshire Businesswomen member, Dr Lubna Khan-Salim the aim of the week is By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle The ‘ladies in the long black dress’ hit Leeds To celebrate the opening night of Sister Act at The Grand, our Ladies of the Lord posed for photographs at some of Leeds’ most iconic landmarks (mostly shops!). Yorkshire Businesswoman will be there, will you? Starring TV and West End legend Lesley Joseph, Olivier Award-winner and star of Tracy Beaker By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Love fashion - get involved with RUN RUN is an exciting line-up of events overseen by internationally acclaimed Yorkshire designer, and Leeds Beckett University Professor, Matty Bovan, who is inviting fashion and arts lovers to a live photoshoot takeover on Tuesday 4 April at Trinity Leeds, in the heart of the city centre. This live, one-day-only showcase By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Bradford Garden Centre to host free houseplant advice session A Bradford garden centre is hosting a free drop-in session for customers to get expert houseplant advice. Gardeners' World Live presenter Joe Bagley will be in the houseplant department at Tong Garden Centre from 12 pm on Saturday, 25th March to give advice and answer questions about houseplants. " By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Leeds Gliterary Lunch with Jodie Chapman & Rebecca Wait Gliterary Lunches first launched in 2006. Sisters, Sibh & Beth wanted to bring together their favourite things and share them with like-minded people. Always keen readers, both joined book clubs when their children were small. They quickly realised that not only were these gatherings great fun, they opened the door By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Sketch book Social Yorkshire Businesswoman associate editor, Freda Shafi had the pleasure to take part in probably the most therapeutic activity in a long time last month organised by Yousef and Clifford of Sketch Club Social. We sketched inside Leeds Minster! Sketch Club Social was created to get like minded artists, sketchers, together By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Where the bodies are buried The Weston Gallery Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) announces the first UK museum solo exhibition by artist Lindsey Mendick. Lindsey Mendick’s solo exhibition will transform The Weston Gallery at YSP, taking the form of a multi-media installation that investigates dreams, Gothic stories, television and cultural experiences from the 1990s. Bringing By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Sister Act is back in the habit at Leeds Grand Theatre Brace yourselves sisters – the habit is returning to Leeds! Direct from London, this eagerly anticipated brand-new production of Sister Act comes to Leeds Grand Theatre in 2023. All your prayers have been answered with a stunning cast, including TV and West End legend Lesley Joseph, Olivier Award-winner and star of By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Yorkshire Country Properties' starter homes prove a success The roll-out of starter homes in West Yorkshire by Yorkshire Country Properties (YCP) is proving a resounding success. Much-needed starter homes are an integral part of YCP’s new developments at Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale, while they have sold out at Shepley and Netherthong. YCP’s Sam McGregor explained: “We By The Editor • 2 min read
