The UK is a world-leader in Smart Grid technology and Flexibility has a key role to play as we move towards a decarbonised, decentralised and digitised network. Claire Perry, Energy and Clean Growth Minister, recently announced four smart energy s...

Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the UK economy by 2050 is the recommendation from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and this would certainly have an impact on the current energy systems. We would need four-times as much low carb...

Cake and bucks fizz for breakfast – what better way to start the post-bank holiday week? Today we saw Lester Lockyer celebrate 20 years of working at Allen & York – from Recruitment Consultant to Managing Director. Starting his employment in 1999 ...

With only 2% of children in England cycling to school – less than the 3% of adults regularly cycling to work – does work need to be done on planning provision for cyclists? With buses, white vans and Chelsea tractors remaining prevalent across com...

The global battery storage market is set ‘to be worth more than $13bn by 2023’ according to data and analytics experts GlobalData as the sector is anticipated to grow by 7% globally over the next four years. GlobalData suggests Asia-Pacific, Europ...

Friday 3rd May 2019 sees the third annual Allen & York Quiz, Curry and Raffle Night at Wimborne Town Football Club. Hosted by our very own Quiz Master, Katie Pereira, we’re supporting Diverse Abilities - the charity that supports children and adul...

The cost of hiring a new employee is not just the recruitment fee but also hidden costs if the candidates are not ideal. Getting recruitment right first time is the goal because the cost of hiring the wrong person undoubtedly impacts more than the...

Research from Monster.co.uk suggests that employers letting their staff work from home could ‘significantly’ reduce UK’s CO2 emissions and carbon footprint. How? Doubling the number of home workers would cut CO2 emissions and the number of cars ta...

Whilst children across the country were trying to break chocolate egg-eating records, and as the Extinction Rebellion dominated the news, the UK grid managed to break their own record with an unbroken 90 hours without generating electricity from c...

With stress related absence on the rise, employers have a legal duty to protect workers from this sometimes-debilitating illness at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. But what is stress? The HSE* defines stress as ‘the adverse react...