It’s that time of year again, time to celebrate and look
back on everything that Chesterfield has achieved.
All too often we hear about the good news in isolation and
it can be overshadowed by the bad which means it can be forgotten in the melee.
That’s why Destination Chesterfield’s annual Celebrate event is so important.
This will be our third Celebrate Chesterfield event and
takes place on Wednesday 25 March at the Winding Wheel. Last year was standing
room only, however the stream of good news delivered by the Destination
Chesterfield Team, left us all uplifted!
This year, Celebrate will be no different. We’ve made a
point of building on last year’s success and striving to be even better in
2015. In June we’ll be welcoming again
the hugely successful Retail Awards and the Food and Drink Awards in October.
We’ll also be celebrating our thriving manufacturing sector with Made in
Chesterfield in November. This year it will be running over two weeks and will
bring even more young people, teachers and businesses together.
It’s important to me that the young people who live here
know that there is a future for them and marketing Chesterfield and its
successful business sectors is crucial to this. We have a number of thriving
industries and there is huge employment opportunities in all of them. The
Manufacturing sector in particular is telling us they want apprentices now!
The hospitality industry is set to boom also. In the same
week it was announced that not only was Chesterfield home to one of the top
five hotels in the UK – Casa, but also that the outskirts of the town was to be
the location for the £400 million Peak Development.
Whether you’re a resident, investor, business or visitor,
there are exciting times ahead for Chesterfield. However, we must not forget
about the past and present. So much has been achieved since we launched
Destination Chesterfield in 2011 and I for one am looking forward to sharing
the town’s numerous successes at Celebrate.
