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		<title>Manchester HR firm appoints new consultant</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 19:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[HR and people management expert, P3, has appointed a new consultant to join its team of HR specialists. Charlotte Clark, from Cheshire, has joined the Altrincham-based consultancy and will be supporting P3’s clients across the UK. Charlotte graduated from Manchester University 12 years ago with a degree in International Marketing, and has built a career [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>XF Gym to Open Brand New 30,000 sq ft Fitness Centre in Liverpool City Centre</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[XF Gym, one of the UK’s newest fitness and wellness brands, will be opening a brand-new 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art fitness and wellbeing facility in the heart of Liverpool’s city centre. Having signed a new lease with RivingtonHark, owners of the iconic St Johns Shopping Centre, this new gym is set to bring a unique [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>NVFCL appoints new senior team bringing wealth of expertise in-house</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Northern Valve and Fitting Company Limited (NVFCL), based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, has boosted its senior leadership team by appointing three experts with over 80 years of combined experience in the oil, gas and hydrogen industries. Through innovation and growth, these appointments will bring an improved focus on delivering products and services that exceed the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>North West HR firm makes strategic appointments as part of growth plan</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[HR and people management experts, P3 People Management, has appointed two specialist consultants to drive growth as it enters its 20th year and expands its services to clients. Founded in 2004 by managing director, Charlotte Dean, P3 was established to support forward-thinking small to medium sized businesses to put their people first in order to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly appointed charity chief sets out three-year plan to deliver environmental and social justice across Greater Manchester</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Delivering a greener, fairer and stronger future for all people, communities and places within Greater Manchester form the core of a three-year plan launched today (Tuesday 2nd May), by Groundwork Greater Manchester. Recently appointed executive director, Deborah Murray, has been with Groundwork Greater Manchester for 11 years and was appointed to lead the charity last [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Manchester PR agency takes on marathon challenge for brain haemorrhage charity</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A team of four from Carousel, on Ducie Street in Manchester, will be taking on this year’s Manchester Marathon in aid of The Natalie Kate Moss Trust. The charity, which funds life-saving research into brain haemorrhage, is an associate charity partner in this year’s Manchester Marathon, taking place on Sunday 16th April.  Carousel account director, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New L&#038;D training programmes launched to support businesses with employee retention and engagement</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Outsourced HR business, P3 People Management, has launched a brand-new Learning and Development Framework to help small businesses to retain and engage their workforce.  With rising inflation and an unstable economy, coupled with employees seeking more from their lives and their work post-Covid, it is proving a popular time to jump ship. According to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>P3 expands team of HR consultants with new appointment</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[North West HR specialist, P3 People Management, has appointed a new consultant to join its growing team. Emma Weeks, from Salford, has joined the Altrincham based P3 team following 20 years working within HR roles, largely in the travel and tourism industry but also within legal services and public services. P3 People Management is a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial blinds contractor opens first premises in Leigh</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Commercial blinds contractor, Rullgardin Bespoke Blinds, has moved into a fully refurbished and energy efficient unit at Moss Industrial Estate in Leigh. Rullgardin’s managing director, Greg Worthington, started the business as a sole trader in 2018 from his kitchen table in Bury, after having gained many years’ manufacturing experience within the blind and carpet industry. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Product designer goes back to his roots to launch new start up</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A product and mechanical component designer from Leigh has launched his new business, RYRO Design, at Moss Industrial Estate. Hamed Faridfar (46), has come full circle as he started his career on the industrial estate back in 2003 when he worked for a small design company developing sensors for automation and safety. Five years later, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>North West brain haemorrhage charity seeks out principal business partner</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A North West charity, which funds ground-breaking research in to the treatment and prevention of brain haemorrhages and stroke, is on the lookout for a principal business partner to support its vision. Statistics from Brain Research UK, show that stroke occurs more than 100,000 times per year in the UK, once every five minutes. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Union launches enhanced salary deduction scheme for Stockport businesses</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Stockport Credit Union has relaunched its payroll deduction scheme ahead of National Payroll Week (6-10 September). In the aftermath of Covid-19, and at a time when many families have struggled to access credit and have been unable to save, Stockport Credit Union is on a mission to help local people achieve financial freedom. By collaborating [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain haemorrhage charity pledges £300,000 to University of Manchester in memory of former student</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Natalie Kate Moss Trust has committed to raising £300,000 for the University of Manchester to fund further research into brain haemorrhage. The charity was set up in 2012 following the sudden death of 26-year-old University of Manchester alumni, Natalie Moss, from a brain haemorrhage. Over the last ten years, the charity has funded many [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Further growth for HR business as P3 makes two new appointments</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 20:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Outsourced HR business, P3 People Management, has made two further appointments to the team. Following on from an earlier appointment made in March, the business has now doubled its size in the last two months. P3, based in Altrincham, Cheshire, helps SMEs based across the North West, to increase their profits by investing in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>True North completes rebrand for building trade supplier TIMCO</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Manchester-based design and brand agency True North was hired to develop and extend the portfolio of sub-brands owned by TIMCO, as part of its nationwide expansion and growth strategy. Following a tenfold increase in turnover and the introduction of a new range of products, TIMCO, which supplies trade products to independent building and construction retailers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>P3 appoints new HR Consultant to help drive growth</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[North West HR services provider, P3 People Management, has appointed a new HR consultant to join its team of HR specialists.   Lyndsey Price, from Melling in Liverpool, has joined the team at P3 with a wealth of experience in HR, gained from over 13 years working within professional services, law firms and, more recently, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial estate appoints new MD to drive growth and sustainability</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Leigh business, George Moss &#38; Sons Ltd, has appointed a new managing director to drive the family business forward as it enters its second century. Neill Wood has been appointed by the current owner of the one-hundred-year-old family business, Sebastian Moss, to drive the growth and sustainability of Moss Industrial Estate, on St. Helen’s Road [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Plans submitted for exciting new £100m waterfront neighbourhood</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Award-winning Liverpool based developers Romal Capital have formally submitted a planning application to Liverpool City Council to transform a derelict site into a thriving new waterfront neighbourhood within Peel L&#38;Ps Liverpool Waters. The £100m scheme will include 330 new, highly sustainable, smart homes, retail space and amenities, as well as significant investment in the surrounding [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Genetic wins Bupa contract for national COVID testing service</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A specialist genetic cancer testing business based in Nantwich, Cheshire, has been awarded a contract to supply an end-to-end COVID PCR testing service to healthcare company, Bupa.   Everything Genetic, which expanded its services last year to assist with the national COVID testing effort, is now a Government-approved COVID-19 private testing provider and has recruited 21 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>North West Battery Centre opens in Leigh</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[UK battery manufacturer and distributor, Shield Batteries, has moved into new premises that will serve both trade and retail customers across the North West. &#160; The new regional Battery Centre is located at Moss Industrial Estate, on St. Helen’s Road in Leigh, and follows the relocation of its former centre in Manchester city centre. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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