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Yarrow Aggregates Celebrates Success Yarrows Aggregates won the Small Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Towergate Insurance) at the Chamber Bridlington and Yorkshire Coast Awards.
Yarrows Aggregates Ltd is part of the F.D. Bird group of businesses, which originally started as a traditional farming business many years ago.
Held at the Spa Bridlington and hosted by Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, the awards celebrate the success of companies across East Yorkshire.
Yarrows Aggregates is a family owned company which has been operating for nine years, providing extraction of minerals from its quarry at Old Hall Farm, Catwick, near Beverley.
More than 350 delegates from across the county gathered to celebrate with the award winners. John Bird received the award for Yarrows Aggregates, presented by Steve Eastwood of Towergate Insurance.
A recent development is the establishment of a recycling plant for aggregates, which enables waste aggregate to be taken from building sites to be processed, washed and larger elements crushed for later use.
Encompass Consultancy Limited Encompass Consultancy Limited is based across Hull and Nottingham. Established in 2009, the company provide a range of services to SMEs, not for profit organisations and public sector bodies. The core service is the delivery of bid and tender writing and management. Additionally to this, it provides 24 hour employment law and HR advice, and environmental management consultancy, procurement outsourcing and tender training. Since 2009, it has grown to a team of seven specialist consultants providing services across the UK. The company has increased its turnover year on year over this period and is looking to invest in
the business over the next 24 months to bring in additional staff. As part of the launch of its new local marketing campaign, it is offering one business a day of consultancy.This will provide a tender-ready healthcheck or review. This will be ideal for a business looking to tender for work for the first time, a business who may have been previously unsuccessful in the bidding process for public sector work or a business looking to develop their processes and systems to be more successful in the tender process.
The Minerva Project and CIC Nationally, the average cost of an offender to society and the criminal justice system for a year is approximately ÂŁ40,000 and ÂŁ50,000. Reoffending rates for those sentenced to less than 12 months in custody remained the highest of all disposals, with an actual re-offending rate of 58.8% and a frequency of 282.7 offences per 100 offenders. (WNF business case 2009). The Minerva project is a Hull Community Safety Partnership-led project to reduce victims of crime and the costs of crime to society. Funded by the partners and by income generated from the Minerva Social Enterprise (Hull) CIC. It has enhanced the resettlement process for ex-offenders returning to the City of Hull and the East riding of Yorkshire following a sentence of less than 12 months. It has maximised the positive opportunities available to ex-offenders. An innovative part of the project is the creation of a Social Enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC) with sufficient resources to bridge gaps in the labour market. The CIC consists of two renovated factory units within Hull. The Minerva volunteers and staff now have 12 micro businesses, including construction and fabrication, cleaning and clearance, autos and catering, details can be found on our website www.minervasocialenterprise.co.uk The current performance figures for the project show that we have had 715 clients actively engage with us. From this we have had only 102 that have re-offended within the target period of 12 weeks. This gives us a re-offending rate of 14.69%. We now employ 25 ex offenders full time within the Social Enterprise. On a cost benefit analysis we calculate we will have saved the public purse ÂŁ31,087,939. Russ Waterman, MA, Cmgr FCMI
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