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We are seeking a Social Media Executive

• 10 April 2017

Dragonfly PR is seeking an experienced Social Media Executive.

We are seeking a Public Relations professional to join the team!

• 31 March 2017

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in b2b Public Relations?

New website for Birley!

• 28 March 2017

Birley Manufacturing, one of Sheffield’s longest established manufacturers of interior environments and rail carriage equipment, now has an exciting new website – thanks to our web design and development team!

Scarborough hotel awarded for its five star coffee treatment

• 09 March 2017

South Yorkshire-based The Heavenly Coffee Company is celebrating with one of its customers, The Crown Spa in Scarborough, after the hotel was awarded 5 Cups along with the accolade for best espresso at the national Beverage Standards Awards.

Cement Plant Helps Residents of Sterndale Moor

• 23 January 2017

A cement plant at Tunstead near Buxton has donated £200 to Residents of Sterndale Moor in Derbyshire towards a community access defibrillator and CPR kit.

Dragonfly PR's Christmas Survey

• 28 November 2016

It’s that time of year when we’re looking to survey successful UK businesses, so we can analyse and the latest trends in PR and digital marketing.  We would like to invite you to complete our quick 10 question survey and we are looking forward to bringing you the results in early 2017.

Dragonfly PR spreads the spirit of Christmas with shoebox charity appeal

• 24 November 2016

Children in war torn countries, who may not have had the opportunity of a Christmas gift, will now be able to smile on Christmas Day, thanks to support from Dragonfly PR for Operation Christmas Child.

'The war years' quarry exhibition to be held in Buxton in November

• 17 October 2016

‘The War Years’ will be the theme of a special Quarry Exhibition, being held by Tarmac at Buxton Methodist church from Saturday 5th to Sunday 13th November. It will feature images from Tarmac’s archive photographs from the local area that date back to the late 1800s, including pictures from the site during the First and Second World Wars. 

Barnstone's Macmillan Cancer Event Raises £600

• 10 October 2016

Members of the local community and employees of Tarmac’s Barnstone Cement Works in Barnstone put their baking skills to good use recently and raised a massive £600 for Macmillan Cancer at a special Coffee and Cake afternoon.

Lord lieutenant presents Sheffield software company with Queens Award

• 21 September 2016

On Friday 16^th September Sheffield-based Software Company 3Squared welcomed the Lord Lieutenant, Mr Andrew Coombe, the Queen’s representative in South Yorkshire, to present the citation and scroll to staff to mark their achievement of the Queen’s Award for innovation.

The Lord Lieutenant met James Fox, Commercial Director and Tim Jones, Managing Director at the company’s Fountain Precinct offices and was introduced to the 40 strong team of software designers, developers, testers and support staff who have all played a key role in the company securing this prestigious business accolade.

Dragonfly PR gets a bake on for charity bake off

• 14 September 2016

The Dragonfly PR team has raised £50 for Barnsley Hospice by taking part in The Big Barnsley Bake Off event.

Our staff worked hard baking delicious treats including crispy buns, brownies, scones, cheesecake and lemon drizzle cake and selling them to staff and visitors in and around the offices.

Parker wins major contract to supply three arctic vessels

• 13 September 2016

Sheffield-based Parker Bestobell Marine, a world leading supplier of cryogenic valves has received a major new order from DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering) in South Korea to supply cryogenic valves for three new vessels.

The company’s valves will be used in the cargo handling systems, including the main discharge line that controls the initial flow of Liquefied Natural Gas from the cargo tanks when pumping starts.  The three vessels are part of the Yamal series of Arc7 ice-class LNG (liquefied natural gas) carriers that will be operated in Arctic winter conditions.  Parker Bestobell Marine previously supplied the first vessel in the series with its cryogenic globe and check valves and that vessel will be the only one owned by Sovcomflot of Russia.

The heat is on as Dragonfly PR takes part in the Big Barnsley Bake Off!

• 31 August 2016

Following the start of this year’s series of The Great British Bake off, staff here at Dragonfly PR are eager to get baking and what better way to do it than by taking part in the Barnsley Hospice charity bake off!

New suite of literature for Sheffcare

• 21 June 2016

We have recently re-designed the whole suite of literature for Sheffcare.  This involved recreating the care home operator’s complete range of brochures for each of its 12 homes, plus a new day centre brochure. 

Website survey results in welcome donation to Barnsley Hospice!

• 16 June 2016

If you’re on our regular e-newsletter mailing list, you will have received a request from us in May when we launched our new website to complete a quick online survey to let us know what you thought.  As a thank you for your time in responding to our survey about the website, we have made a donation to Barnsley Hospice for every response we received.