18 February 2026

ADVENTURE Peer to Peer Networking Join us on the 25th February at the Cedar Court Hotel Huddersfield for the Calderdale and Kirklees Peer to Peer Networkign event. Exclusively for AD:VENTURE ...

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16 February 2026

Do you have an idea for a community project that needs funding?  The next funding round of  is Growing Great Places is now open for groups anywhere in Kirklees who are planning to ...

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13 February 2026

CirKits Ltd® founder and STEM ambassador Hannah Wright has been nominated for the SheCanCode “Inspirational STEM Educators of the Year” award, recognising her work to make computing and technology more ...

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29 January 2026

The Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin has announced ‘The People’s Fund’ to tackle serious violence where local groups and organisations can bid for a share of £500,000, empowering local ...

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5 August 2025

Community-driven platform Work Rest or Play has released its first post-rebrand analytics report, showing strong early engagement and promising growth across its digital and social channels. Formerly known as the ...

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25 July 2025

Earlier this month Denby Dale District Lions Club held their annual Scarecrow Trail event which has become one of their most popular and high-profile fundraising events of the year. With ...

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24 February 2025

Did you know the HD8 Network has a dedicated News section on our website? (By the way, you are reading an article in it, right now). Alongside our local events ...

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17 January 2025

Kirklees Council has identified a pressing need for upskilling in Marketing and Management to support its communities. To address this, free or co-funded Skills Bootcamps in Marketing and Management are ...

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19 September 2023

As part of Kirklees Council’s continued work to balance its budgets, Cabinet Members are being asked to approve a 6-week consultation on proposals for changes to the district’s leisure centre ...

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8 November 2022

One of our HD8 members, Jacquie Budd, has recently been named a finalist in the IPSE Sustainable Freelancer Awards. Jacquie is a Marketing Content Writer specialising in Google-friendly content for ...

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21 June 2022

Your views – Businesses have the opportunity to inform Government’s 10-year plan to improve mental health.   Positively managing mental health underpins good employee engagement and benefits everyone – employees, employers ...

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6 July 2021

As the world begins to open up again, it can be hard to know where to go or what to do as it feels like so long since we were ...

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30 July 2020

Kirklees Council has made a second and final round of the Local Authority Discretionary Grant fund available to help small businesses that have been impacted by COVID-19. Grants of up ...

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17 April 2020

Has your business been closed or seriously affected by coronavirus? Are you considering staff redundancies?  The Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme could help. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will pay ...

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8 October 2019

Storthes Hall Park near Huddersfield has won the British Chambers of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award for Mid-Yorkshire, following its transformation over the last 12 months. This win, ...

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8 October 2019

Storthes Hall Park near Huddersfield has been nominated in two awards for the prestigious White Rose tourism awards that recognises the very best that Yorkshire has to offer. This is ...

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14 June 2019

This year we are celebrating 6 years of the HD8 Network. Conceived and brought to life in the spring-summer 2013. One of the first things we did was create a ...

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2 November 2018

We know it can sometimes be tricky to write an article about yourself, so we have written you an article template to get you started. Use this as a starting ...

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6 February 2017

We are honoured to have two groups of Huddersfield University Business and Marketing students conducting their Market Research assignment on the HD8 Network, with the aim of improving the offering ...

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20 December 2016

Work, Rest or Play offers you a range of ways to get found in the HD8 area and beyond. There are a number of ways to greatly increase the exposure ...

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