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All in Hospitality
Amanda Harrington, Sales and Marketing Director at Bakers Dolphin has won the Sales Leader of the Year Award in the South West Leadership Awards.
Bridgwater residents living with dementia have enjoyed being swashbucklers and scallywags for a pirate-themed party day arranged by the activities team at Avalon Nursing Home.
Staff at Butterfly Lodge in Plymouth are celebrating the news that they have been awarded the highest possible score by carehome.co.uk for the care they provide, due to the very positive feedback submitted to the care sector’s industry-leading website by residents’ families.
Residents at The Rectory care home in Taunton have been making the most of the spring sunshine, spending time socialising, gardening and relaxing in the home’s outdoor spaces.
Langstone Vale Crematorium has re-opened its doors as the first funeral SuperVenue in Wales, enabling bereaved families to experience immeasurable personalisation to their loved ones’ services.
Bristol’s hoteliers hope 2026 continues in the way it has started as Easter approaches, which traditionally marks the start of the holiday season.
A new network of Youth Hubs has officially launched across Cornwall to help young people access employment, training, and personalised guidance.
A free Webinar takes place later this month to encourage the creation of more inclusive kitchen cultures and support the next generation of professional chefs.
Bristol’s hospitality heroes were honoured in a glittering gala to celebrate those whose professionalism and hard work has brought such benefit to the city.
A top training provider has cooked up a campaign designed to encourage more women to consider careers in the kitchen and promote greater equality within the industry.
The team at Chestnut Lodge Nursing Home in Yeovil has been boosted with the arrival of a new head chef, Jithin Chacko, who has previously worked in various hotels in the Middle East and in a number of care homes in the UK.
The hospitality sector is “craving some consistency” from the government following recent changes to the business rates regime, according to a leading lawyer.
Residents at Deer Park Nursing Home in Holsworthy, Devon, really entered into the spirit of the day when they held their inaugural pancake race on Shrove Tuesday.
Hoteliers have made a grand gesture to help nurture the next generation of hospitality sector talent by donating £1,000 worth of kitchen equipment to City of Bristol College.
Employee-owned apprenticeship and training provider HIT Training Ltd has signalled its long-term commitment to UK skills and sector growth by changing its name to The Opportunity Provider Ltd.
Sedgemoor Crematorium now offers bereaved families the chance to personalise their loved one’s service to unprecedented levels.
Hoteliers in Bristol are cautiously optimistic that 2026 will be a better year for their businesses despite continuing financial challenges.
Newly arrived residents at a recently-opened dementia care home in Holsworthy have enjoyed meeting local primary school pupils who visited to serenade them with a “beautifully rehearsed” selection of carols and Christmas songs.
The chapel at Treswithian Downs Crematorium has been given a new look following a programme of refurbishment work.
Hopes of Bristol hoteliers that the Autumn budget wouldn’t adversely affect a promising end to 2025 have been dashed by a higher-than-expected wage increase for the under-21s.
