A Harrogate-based employment law firm has expanded its offices to London.
Boardside in London is close to St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England. The location will mean it is easily accessible for clients in the city.
The company now has branches in three different regions, with its headquarters in Harrogate.
The firm wrote in its newsletter:
“Almost five years after launching our niche employment law practice in Yorkshire, we are delighted to announce that we now have a presence in the capital.
“We believe that by having offices in the two biggest legal centres (Leeds and London) in the country, it will be easier for us to meet clients from across the UK.”
Boardside is run by owners Richard Port and Nadine Martson.
Support for Ripon businesses
Ripon’s Business Improvement District has appointed the Place Support Partnership to help firm in Ripon save on running costs.
PSP will visit BID businesses to support and advise them on reducing costs associated with utility and trading bills.
Lilla Bathurst, manager of the BID, said:
“The Place Support Partnership offers various services and acts as a savings scheme to support businesses.
“During the consultation process, businesses identified that they would like 10% of their levy to go on business support.”
Ripon BID says it has also worked to make businesses aware of the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant.
OHLG grants totally £141,342 were distributed to hospitality businesses in Ripon which were negatively affected by the pandemic.
Harrogate BID provided a business grant of up to £750 last month, for qualifying businesses to improve paintwork, signage and accessibility.
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Ripon cafe takes tentative step towards opening
Ripon city centre cafe Oliver’s Pantry is welcoming customers once more with the launch of a takeaway service – and aims to do more in the coming weeks.
For owners Tim and Lou Grant, the hope, along with other businesses in the hospitality sector, is for social distancing restrictions to ease from the current two metres to one metre.
They are planning for the day when customers can sit in to eat the buns, cakes, pastries and meringues upon which the cafe has built its reputation.
Lou told The Stray Ferret:
“We are making tentative steps as we test the water and think about what can be achieved in the space we have available, while meeting all of the social distancing and hygiene requirements, brought about by the coronavirus crisis”
She added:
“We have had a purpose-made perspex screen put in place at the counter and it’s one customer in at a time for the takeaway service, where a one way system operates.”
Things have gone well and Lou and Tim and are quietly optimistic, while also being realistic as they adapt to the ‘new normal’ that will see them having to reduce the number of tables they have by approximately half to comply with the two metres of distance rule.
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The couple celebrate the eighth anniversary of running Oliver’s Pantry next month and will continue with their Wednesday to Sunday service between 10am and 3pm each day. They hope that members of the team currently on furlough will be able to start returning as business builds up again.
During lockdown, the Grants put many messages of hope in the window of the North Street cafe and have kept in touch with customers daily through social media, including cookery demonstrations run on line by Lou. She said:
“We have had some very kind messages from our customers and it has been lovely to see some of them again over the past few days.”