Entries by Baba

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Video Company Goes Virtual with New Meeting Course

A Cheshire video production company’s launched a brand new product in response to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Congleton based CineRobota’s developed an on-line training course on how to hold effective video meetings. With the nation in lockdown and more and more workers using on-line technology to hold meetings the company’s using a major training platform called […]

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Advice on funding for companies hit by the Coronavirus pandemic

Business lockdown has led to a busy time for business finance expert Tom Wilkinson. Tom, Director of Alton-based Beta Commercial Finance and a former business banker has been advising companies across the UK on how to access the Government Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and advising on other financial options to keep companies afloat during […]

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Covid-19 Support Network for the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme

A support network has been launched in Newcastle-under-Lyme to help residents during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Covid-19 Support Network, being run by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Support Staffordshire and Realise Charity, aims to work with volunteers and voluntary sector organisations to ensure the people of the Borough are supported, protected and kept well-informed. By co-ordinating the response […]

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Volunteer for Your City

People are being urged to volunteer to support some of the city’s most vulnerable people as part of a community response to coronavirus in Stoke-on-Trent. #StokeonTrentTogether has been formed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council working alongside local charity and voluntary sector organisation VAST to meet the everyday needs of vulnerable residents who are affected by Covid-19 […]

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Staffordshire Day Celebrations ONLINE

A series of activities will be live-streamed and broadcast via social media to help celebrate this year’s Staffordshire Day… Instead of the celebrations of previous years, which featured special events, offers and competitions – the 2020 Staffordshire Day will see a combination of live performances, talks and demonstrations, and classes to get involved in – […]

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FOUR IN A BED HOTEL ACCOMMODATING KEYWORKERS DURING THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN

On Monday March 30 Potbank Aparthotel in Stoke-on-Trent featured in popular Channel 4 reality TV show Four in a Bed. The show was set in and around the Potbank Aparthotel – a recently converted early 19th century “potbank” within the 250 year old former Spode factory. Filming took place in the spring of 2019, long […]

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Young pen pals provide reasons to stay cheerful

Residents at Belong care village in Newcastle-under-Lyme and others in the group operated by not-for-profit care provider Belong, have found real reasons to be cheerful during the Covid-19 epidemic, as a result of an initiative from Liverpool-based charity, Ready Generations, which has encouraged children of all ages to become pen pals for older people in […]

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Containers needed to help Gin distillery supply hand sanitiser

The owners of a gin distillery in Newcastle-under-Lyme have switched from producing gin to hand sanitiser during the Coronavirus pandemic. Staffordshire Gin supplied Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council with 25 litres of the hand sanitiser on Wednesday March 25, to help with the essentials the local authority need for recycling and waste crews. Since then the company […]

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