IT Support in Derby

The City

This city has seen hugely influential figures live there, Florence Nightingale for example and perhaps no surprise but Sir Henry Royce too.

A home too to some great sports people including triathlete Tom Bishop and swimmer Sarah Vasey.

The University of Derby has two sites one based on Kedleston Road with the other site in Buxton.

The University of Nottingham opened a graduate medical school inside Royal Derby Hospital, and it is there that the School of Nursing and Midwifery can be found.

Derby is twinned with Osnabrück in Germany.

Financial Services

Clear Solutions Wealth & Tax Management, Belmont Regency Ltd, and Glenrose Investment Ltd are three most recommended financial service solutions found in Derby based on their local reviews, history, business standards, ratings, price, and trading excellence.

Inside the Cathedral Quarter sit many of the city’s financial representatives, from banks, building societies, insurance brokers, accountancies, and advisory solution businesses.

Technology

Given that Derby is hailed ‘an innovation city’ by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, so it is no surprise that Derby has its finger on the pulse from start-ups to well established companies.

In fact, the government are investing into Smart Parc a high-tech food manufacturing campus which will create 4500 jobs. Smart Tech is food production high tech business based in the heart of Derby.

This comes as a welcome investment that will create a massive boost for the technology sector in the area.

Other tech companies are also located in Derby such as Node4, Lumici, Datapath, Solid Systems Global, RDS Global and Soutron amongst others.

Technology in this city is set to rise as the East Midlands Institute of Technology where four universities and colleges are also being brought together in £13 million plan to create a pioneering highly advanced workforce in technology.

This would mean that this area would lead the UK in its green and digital revolution. With clean growth becoming a leading factor in manufacturing, engineering and digital the Institute of Technology will be providing a new net zero carbon workforce that will meet the UK’s journey towards a net zero greenhouse gas emissions country in 2050.

Professional Services

Ablewild, Air IT, Anjela Charles of Herbal Medicine, APP4 Developments, Ashby Family Law Practice are among some of the city’s professional services.

There is a strong legal presence in the city with many law firms and solicitors electing to have their Chambers in the area.

Media

The Derby Telegraph is the city’s daily newspaper, BBC Radio Derby and the commercial radio station is Capital East Midlands radio.

Tourism

Derby City Council run Visit Derby that aims to work alongside businesses to support area in tourism.

Derby is well situated being the UK’s most central city and on the edge of the Peak District. The River Derwent flows through the city.

The city centre itself is pedestrianised making shopping an easy and pleasurable experience. Along Sadler Gate and Iron Gate the 16th century buildings line the street.

Castle Ward shows off a host of businesses from restaurants and cafes, new homes, and shops. Derby offer indoor markets and shopping malls, green spaces at Cathedral Green and Market Place, a plethora of Grade 1 listed buildings with heritage and history to match, Derby Cathedral, Museums, and Galleries.

Notably Derby is part of the Derwent Valley World Heritage Corridor.

Retail

A variety of places for shopping makes Derby a go to for shoppers.

Shop in the Cathedral Quarter, Durbion shopping hub, East Midlands Shopping Outlet with 65 stores to visit (and could become more in the future), Derby Market Hall, St Peter’s Quarter, and the Eagle Market.

Manufacturing and Construction

There are currently eleven new projects happening post pandemic in Derby and the investment is said to be worth £700 million.

The Infinity Park hi-tech research centre will benefit as will the shopping and retail areas across the city and there are new construction ventures too like the multi-million pound Moorways which is a water park and that exciting new investment will be surrounded by many new homes.

Early History

Originally a Roman settlement seized by the Saxons and then again by the Vikings, this city was a humble market town until growing rapidly in the Industrial Revolution and is hailed as the birthplace of this time period with the building of Lombe’s Mill, the UK’s first water powered silk mill and early factory.

In fact, before this time in 1692 the town became the first place to put in place a civic system of piped water through wooden water pipes.

In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie once settled in Derby and set up his war council on his way to seize the British Crown before he went home with his tail between his legs.

The eighteenth century saw Eramus Darwin, grandfather to Charles Darwin set up the Derby Philosophical Society.

Derby soon became an emerging engineering centre in the nineteenth century with the North Midland Railway setting up their headquarters there and this label carried Derby right through to 1907 when Rolls Royce cemented that by setting up a car and aircraft factory in the town.

Today it is worth noting is that Derby is home and cultural centre to a large deaf community, there is said to be three times the national average of the sign language community living in the city.

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