Nick Smith

Nick Smith, group managing director

Reward Funding hits £300m lending milestone
Reward Funding, the original leader in the alternative finance industry, has surpassed a £300m loan book milestone for the first time in the company's history. ...

Elizabeth Harrison (Reward), Luke Ambler (Andy’s Man Club) and Nick Smith (Reward)

Reward raises £24,000 to support Andy’s Man Club

Nick Smith, group managing director Reward Funding

Reward Funding unveils new brand identity and strategy

Staging Day for the 2024 Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, 13 '“ 15 September at Newby Hall & Gardens. Pictured Ian Ledger, Secretary of the Northern Committee of the National Dahlia Society surrounded by over 1000 flowering Dahlia's on thier display at this years show designed by Tracey Parkinson. Picture By James Hardisty. Date: 12th September 2024.

Veg growers battle over biggest onion at Harrogate Autumn Flower Show

Flowers, messages and other tributes left at Headingley Stadium in Leeds, following the announcement of the death of Rob Burrow, aged 41. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Rob Burrow’s work has made an immeasurable difference - Stephen Naylor

Pickleball at Tadcaster Leisure Centre, the paddle and the ball with its 27 holes. (Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe)

From Penistone to Tadcaster the growth of a racquet sports phenomenon

Nick Smith, group managing director for Reward Finance.

Reward achieves landmark £200m lending milestone

David Matthewman who is a regular at the Harrogate Flower show

Everything you need to know about the Harrogate Flower Show

Staff at Yorkshire Ambulance Service and nine other ambulance trusts are planning to walk out on Wednesday

Ambulance strike: Crews will only respond to life-threatening emergencies

MPs have accused the City watchdog of betraying British Steel pension savers who were targeted and abused by rogues.

'Betrayal of British Steel pension savers shows we need tougher regulators'

The oil giant is expected to report an underlying replacement cost profit – its preferred measure – of 3.9 billion dollars (£2.9 billion). It’s a rise from 115 million dollars (£84.6 million) in the same quarter a year earlier.

BP could enter political crosshairs as profit boost expected

Ambulances outside the LGI in March 2020. Picture: James Hardisty

Soldiers to drive ambulances in Yorkshire as paramedics hit by Covid absences

Yorkshire Ambulance Service is expecting to receive around 4,500 daily calls on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

Yorkshire Ambulance Service sees surge in 999 calls over festive period

Yorkshire Ambulance Service is working to reduce hospital handover waiting times

Reducing handover delays is Yorkshire Ambulance Service's 'highest priority'

Emma Gibson and Nick Smith of Missing Peace. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.

Yorkshire mental health campaigner: 'I want people to know they're not broken'

Yorkshire Ambulance Service is critically busy today.

YAS declares major incident as it warns service is 'critically busy'

1920s flapper girls Jessica Fordham and Fiona Fisk celebrate '100 years not out' as Spring Essentials marks 'a century of shows' at Harrogate

Harrogate Flower Show celebrates a century of shows

This was Space Traveller and Danny Tudhope winning last year's Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Royal Ascot - Danny Tudhope out to emulate Frankie Dettori on Space Traveller

Nick Smith: Right, a wheelchair sprinter at Leeds City Athletics Club.

Wheelchair sprinter Nick Smith spreading the word with virtual reality

The winning Girls Team (from left to right) Sammy Jo Bell, Emma-Jayne Watson and Hayley Turner pose with the trophy after the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot Racecourse, Ascot. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday August 8, 2015. See PA story RACING Ascot. Photo credit should read: Julian Herbert/PA Wire. Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial or promotional use. No private sales. Call +44 (0)1158 447447 for further information.

Ascot’s Dubai Shergar Cup is latest meeting to be cancelled

Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopters grounded for emergency purposes
Both Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) helicopters are to temporarily stop flying to emergencies as paramedics join the fight against coronavirus on land.
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Rob Burrow, front, walks out at Old Trafford with two of his children ahead of Leeds Rhinos' 2017 Grand Final success against Castleford Tigers - the last game of his career. (SWPIX)

Stricken Leeds Rhinos legend Rob Burrow: I’ll fight this to see my children grow...

How did your MP score? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Every UK MP has been ranked from best to worst in new ‘People-Power Index’ - thi...

Sarah Richardson, a florist at Leafy Couture at Arthington, on the miniature railway she at the Harrogate Autumn Flower show.

New home as autumn flower show upoots fom Harrogate

Break dancers Hannah Thompson and Anas Afriad cut some shapes to bring the #kerbcouture street to life. Picture: Gerard Binks.

Here's everything you need to know about this year's Harrogate Spring Flower Sho...

PICS: Gerard Binks

Harrogate Spring Flower show gets streetwise as it looks to ‘kerb couture’ inspi...

Pictured Sarah Richardson, from Leafy Coulture Flowers, dressing the bus shelter watched by Joseph Lucas, John Leaham, and Steve Matcalfe, from Harrogate Borough Council Parks Department.

‘Bloom-bombing’ to brighten up bus stops

Ian Neale from Newport with the largest cabbage in the giant vegetable competition weighing 30.2kg at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

Huge cabbage and 17-pound onion winners at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show

Fire crews gave first aid to a child as well as tackling a house fire in Bradford.

Warning after child sets fire to a Bradford house with a cigarette lighter

Ad Feature Expert Tips for Giving Your Home a Professional Style Makeover

Stephen Naylor: The human case for greater research into Motor Neurone Disease

Peter Glazebrook from Newark with his heaviest onion at 14.69lb's - winner of the heaviest onion competition at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

See the giant vegetables that have pulled in the crowds at Harrogate Autumn Flow...
It is a seasonal competition that is steeped in history after being launched for this first time more than 40 years ago.
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Group sales and marketing director at Reward Finance Group, Nick Smith

Alternative funder Reward enjoys record-breaking month

Lauren Green (left) from Leeds and Abigail Moore from Sheffield wear floral costumes by New Zealand artist Jenny Gillies. Picture by Simon Hulme

Wearable art forms new centrepiece for Spring Flower Show

Show director Nick Smith dons a coat of many flowers, to launch national Wear a Flower day.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Say it with flowers this Spring

Jane Robinson gets into the spirit of the unwanted wellies appeal for the Harrogate Spring Flower Show. Picture: Simon Hulme

Unwanted wellies in demand for Harrogate Spring Flower Show

Firefighter David Cheesbrough with Isobelle McLennan, who was rescued from a house fire near Otley

Firefighters honoured after dramatic Leeds house blaze rescue

A visitor looks at the chrysanthemums on display at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show at the Great Yorkshire Showground. Pictures: Tony Johnson.

Autumn flower show opens in Harrogate

Paul Toon sprays leaf shine on his carnations. Pictures by Simon Hulme

Video: Harrogate Autumn Flower Show sneak preview

Harrogate Flower Show Director Nick Smith meets one of the colourful characters made by Horticap students for the Friend or Foe? show garden they are building at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

Explore the nasty and the nice at flower show

Firefighters put out the blaze at the mill in Grange Road, Batley. Picture by Simon Hulme

Video: Firefighters praised after tackling huge mill blaze in Batley

Frankie Dettori celebrates his victory on Max Dynamite in the Lonsdale Cup on day three of the Ebor Festival at York in August. Picture: John Giles/PA.

York hero Max Dynamite out to go one better Down Under

Shadow secretary of state for environment Kerry McCarthy

‘I’m not on a crusade against bacon sandwiches’ says vegan Shadow Farming Minist...

Alfie Jones, age nine, from Chapel Allerton with his mum Sallie Smith and his brother Leon. Alfie has run 27.2 miles and raised more than £2,500 for the children's bereavement charity Winston's Wish to thank them for the support they gave him after his father was killed in an accident. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe

Leeds boy’s marathon effort for charity which helped his family after dad’s deat...

Winston Churchill look-alike Derek Herbert with the flower portrait of the former Prime Minister

Video: Preview the Harrogate Spring Flower Show

Peter Glazebrook with his 20lbs world record breaking carrot at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. Picture by Tony Johnson

Monster veg makes its mark at flower show

Freya Mawhinney in 18th Century costume, by the Ribston Pippin Apple tree. Picture by Simon Hulme

Video: Fruitful quest for the first Yorkshire Pippin

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Pip pip hooray... Autumn Flower Show set to have the apple at its very core

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Pint-sized plots

Nick Smith, new director of the Harrogate Flower Show

New Flower Show director

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Inglis continues to show class for Pool

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Hundreds facing axe as councils cut back further

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Children who just can’t add without calculator

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Banning killer drug will save other families this anguish

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