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The power of healing in the modern stress era

In this issue of Community Update, we want to celebrate Louise Claridge Life Coach and Holistic Healer: recipient of our Commitment to Excellence Award for providing empathic wellbeing sessions. With stress levels rising exponentially; workplace burnout has increased by a whooping 48%, leaving many of us exhausted and often barely functioning. Whilst adults contend with […]

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Successful sustainable food optimising plan for weight loss

In this issue of Community Update, we are delighted to award Slimming World Consultant: Bill Richardson with our Commitment to Excellence Award. We have rising obesity levels across the UK: 68% of men and 60% of women were considered obese in 2022. The COVID-19 Lockdown also further exacerbated sedentary lifestyles. Slimming World offers an alternative, […]

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Popular roadside eatery serves traditional, comfort food in the heart of Yorkshire

In this issue of Community Update, we are awarding The Outside Inn with our Service Provider of the Year Award. The Outside Inn is on the A59 near Harrogate, a charming roadside luxury coffee shop. Owners Mark and Teresa Trickett serve hearty breakfasts, lunchtime toasties, through to the staple Sunday carvery. With a newly added […]

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Award-winning Scottish oats take the biscuit

In this issue of Community Update, we are delighted to award McKenzie’s Biscuits with our Commitment to Excellence Award. McKenzie’s Biscuits is not just an award-winning bakery and biscuit business, it pays homage to treasured family recipes, passed down from father to son. In 1952 Alexander McKenzie opened an artisan bakery in Turriff, in rural […]

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Company Of The Month: Scottish Lowland whisky distillery tour praised by visitors

In this issue of Community Update we are proud to announce Bladnoch Distillery as our Scottish whisky distillery Company of the Month. The Scotch Whisky industry provided £5.3bn in gross value added (GVA) to the UK economy in 2018 and furthermore, provided employment to more than 11,000 Scots and over 42,000 across the whole of […]

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Drag Queen wedding ceremony adds colourful flamboyance to special day

Community Update is delighted to announce that Proud Fox Ceremonies has received our Commitment to Excellence Award. Wedding celebrants have been on the rise in recent years, with many couples wishing to personalise ceremonies. There is growing momentum for celebrants to have adopted legal status for conducting ceremonies through a law commission paper. Proud Fox […]

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Secluded, elegant, bespoke DIY wedding venue

Imagine saying ‘I do,’ in a stunning 19th century walled garden, surrounded by coral peonies, ruby-red roses and pom-pom alliums, then feasting like royalty next to a fire pit under a rural, Scottish sky? The Teasses Estate in Ceres, Fife offers couples the perfect, idyllic venue for the DIY wedding of your dreams.  As the […]

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Stunning wedding images captured by accomplished photographer

In this issue of Community Update, we are awarding Nathan O’Brien Photography with our Commitment to Excellence Award for exemplary, wedding photography.  A good wedding photographer captures all the joy of the special day: an outstanding photographer captures golden wedding jewellery reflecting in the dappled sunlight at a Hindu wedding, a stolen, secret garden kiss […]

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