New Chief Constable Chris Sims Goes on Patrol in The Jewellery Quarter
The new Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police, Chris Sims, took to the streets this week to patrol the City’s Jewellery Quarter and get to know the local community.
The Chief’s visit came as part of a number of visits taking place throughout the West Midlands with the aim of finding out first hand what [...]
Meet Birmingham Assay Office at the New ‘Jewellery Show’
The Birmingham Assay Office is looking forward to meeting customers and colleagues from the Trade on their stand in HALL 18 K49 at the newly launched Jewellery Show at Spring Fair International, NEC, Birmingham 7-11 February 2010.
Come and talk to the jewellery industry experts from The Birmingham Assay Office. This year is indeed an exciting [...]
Hallmark for Palladium Becomes Compulsory
Palladium is bright, white, tarnish resistant and much less dense than other platinum group metals. Widely used in industry, it has now been officially recognized as a precious metal for fine jewellery, with the introduction of a compulsory UK hallmark from 1st January 2010. Many jewellers are experimenting with Palladium, which has had a voluntary [...]
The Latest Trend, New Inspirations, and Fascinating Special Exhibitions
inhorgenta europe 2010 offers a comprehensive side event programme inhorgenta europe will once again open its doors from February 19th to 22nd, 2010. As is tradition, Europe’s leading trade fair for watches, jewellery, gemstones, pearls, and technology offers its close to 30,000 trade fair visitors a comprehensive side event programme. The many seminars and presentations, [...]
New Business Centre Model
(the corporate pod® supports local start up businesses)
Leading Birmingham serviced office provider, the corporate pod® recently announces a new range of services for the new year that have been specifically developed to support new start up businesses in the region. This will include signposting start up clients to potential available grants and launching a ‘virtual [...]
Wildlife Management
by Marie Haddleton
Over the past ten years or so, the Jewellery Quarter has experienced problems with gulls – when nesting and with fledglings they get very aggressive and have been seen attacking people walking along the street and builders working on scaffolding. Also, of course, there is the noise they make which residents in particular [...]
Brums-A-Gem
The Birmingham Assay Office is pleased to announce that it is uniquely opening its doors to the General Public and offering limited places on its popular Silver Collection Visits programme – on THREE DATES ONLY.
Usually these visits are only available to organised groups, so this is a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Silver Collection, [...]
Clerksroom Launches new Birmingham Mediation Centre
National Mediation provider, Clerksroom today announces the launch of a new Birmingham Mediation Centre in the corporate pod™ business centre located at 35 St Pauls Square. The new centre opened its doors at the start of the New Year on 4th January 2010.
Launched in 2001, Clerksroom Mediation is now one of the leading mediation providers [...]
The Birmingham Assay Office Support Acorns Children’s Hospice Charity
The Birmingham Assay Office recently presented a cheque to Acorns Children’s Hospice which provides specialist care for life limited children and support for their families across the Heart of
England.
The Acorns logo appeared on all the Christmas and New Year greetings cards and electronic correspondence that The Birmingham Assay Office sent out to its customers, suppliers [...]
New Hallmarking Dealers Notice 2010
The Hallmarking Act 1973 created a legal requirement for Dealers’ Notices. This notice explains the prevailing approved hallmarks, is produced by the British Hallmarking Council and MUST be displayed by all persons ‘dealing’ in precious metals. The Dealers Notice has been redesigned to incorporate the precious metal Palladium – which must carry a legal hallmark [...]
