U4L names hospice as its charity partner of the year

A Bournemouth-based utility company has thrown its full weight behind Lewis-Manning Hospice Care.

Utilities4Less (U4L) has made the Poole hospice its charity partner of the year with an initial £250 donation.

It has also pledged to donate £250 for every successful introduction made through Lewis-Manning Hospice Care which leads to a new U4L client.

Martin Bell, U4L’s Business Relationship Manager, said: “We are delighted to be working with Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, our local hospice charity.

“The idea is to raise much needed funds for the charity.

“Also for U4L to help business clients save the local, national and global environments by switching those businesses current supply of electricity to 100 per cent renewable energy from British sources.

“For every successful introduction made via Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, leading to a new U4L client and joining the U4L family, we will donate £250 to the hospice.”

Nicki Cluley, Corporate Partnership Fundraiser, Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, said, “We are thrilled to have U4L on board and to be working with their team.

“We are hugely grateful for the initial £250 donation.”

U4L is on a mission to engage businesses to reduce energy usage, be more energy-efficient, save on utility bills, and ultimately guide and support their Net-Zero journey.

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Not Just Travel welcomes new recruitment manager

Award-winning Not Just Travel and The Travel Franchise have appointed a new recruitment manager to help keep up with the expansion of its experienced travel agency arm.

Louise Baxendell, pictured left, comes to the Dorset-based company after a long career in the travel industry working with brands including Thomson Holidays, Lunn Poly, Global Travel Group and the Co-operative Travel Group.

She will be working with the experienced travel agency side of the business, where agents are supported to grow their businesses.

Louise had anything but a quiet start as in her first week she already had more than 250 enquiries to manage.

Co-founders Steve Witt and Paul Harrison said: “Louise knows travel and she’s a real people person.

“She has a huge amount of experience and has owned her own travel business before, so she’s done exactly what she is recruiting people to do – she’s walked the walk.”

Not Just Travel and its sister arm, The Travel Franchise, are one of the few travel companies to be expanding right now due to high demand.

Steve and Paul say enquiries have gone ‘through the roof’ as people look to create new job opportunities, with many being drawn to homeworking.

Over the coming months they aim to increase the size of their recruitment team as they launch new business divisions and attract even more members.

www.thetravelfranchise.com/experienced

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‘Magnificent six’ qualify at Lester Aldridge

Six newly qualified solicitors have completed their training contracts at Lester Aldridge.

Samantha Edwards, Alice Straight, Chelsea Feeney and Mollie Harris will be based in LA’s Bournemouth office within the family, commercial, employment and private client teams,

Brooke Manning and Kirsten Adamson will be located in the law firm’s Southampton office working within the personal injury and real estate teams.

Matthew Barrow, Managing Partner, said: “LA is proud of our graduating trainees and pleased to welcome them as qualified solicitors.

“They will all be key members of our growing teams.”

(Left to right): Samantha Edwards, Alice Straight, Chelsea Feeney, Kirsten Adamson, Mollie Harris, Brooke Manning

At Lester Aldridge, graduate training contracts consist of four six-month seats in a variety of contentious and non-contentious teams.

The trainees are given the chance to work with high-profile commercial clients, high net-worth private clients and exceptional lawyers while continuing to develop their knowledge and confidence.

LA has consistently received excellent reviews in the Chambers Student Guide and The Lex 100, which offer independent, unbiased insight into the UK’s premier law firms, based on in-depth interviews with hundreds of trainees.

• To apply for a LA training contracts please email [email protected]