Business owners from Staffordshire and beyond learned more about pensions and auto-enrolment at an event held by Slaters Accountants and Richard Jacobs Pensions. Financial experts from the two Newcastle-under-Lyme companies are working in partnership to ensure businesses are fully briefed on their obligations to provide workplace pensions. Emily Jacobs, Director of Richard Jacobs Pensions and Trustee Services, gave advice to …
100-plus schools are in safe hands with Security Services
More than 100 schools have been made safer thanks to the expertise of Stoke-on-Trent company Security Services. Now a growth in the Academy school sector is opening up new contracts for the expanding Security Services team. Security Services has been supplying state-of-the-art security devices to schools across the Midlands since the 1980s. The experienced Security Services team are able to …
Explore Stoke-on-Trent’s secret nineteenth-century pottery riots in a unique theatre experience
The old and new collide as award winning theatre company Periplum explore the 1842 Stoke-on-Trent pottery riots. Reading the Riot Act is an interactive performance where the audience use headphones, i-Pads and visual installations to travel through a portal back in time to an explosive moment in local history. This unique performance, which takes place at Fenton Library on Saturday …
Media Force installs Superfast Broadband at the MoD’s new single living accommodation at Beacon Barracks
British troops returning from Germany will benefit from superfast broadband after Media Force, part of specialist broadband group Keycom, fibre enabled the Beacon Barracks site at Stafford. Media Force won a competitive tender to provide broadband to the 10 new accommodation blocks and two diners on the Beacon Barracks site. A major redevelopment project has seen the development of new …
Your chance to star at the City Centre Christmas switch-on event
Volunteers from across Stoke-on-Trent are to be given a chance to help make this winter’s Christmas lights switch-on event among the most colourful ever. A host of technicolour LED-lit umbrellas will add a new twist to the traditional parade as Christmas kicks-off in City Centre Hanley on Thursday, November 19. This year’s lights switch-on will feature all the traditional elements …
50 not out as E. Bennett celebrates half a century of keeping UK industry moving
Family business E. Bennett Electrical has been keeping the wheels of British industry turning for half a century. Three generations of the Bennett family have worked for E. Bennett Electrical since it was founded in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1965 by Harry John Bennett. The company is now run by Harry John’s sons, Andrew, Nigel and Roger Bennett and is a …
Croft Architecture helps to build a thirst for micro-pubs
Croft Architecture is helping to slake a new found thirst for real ale and craft beer in Staffordshire. The Stafford based architects have been successful in gaining planning permission for three new micro-pubs in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. “There’s been a revolution in the tastes of beer drinkers, with many people moving away from mass produced beer, and this has sparked …
Family business dials up success with call handling service following management buy-out
Father and son David and John Marks are dialling up business success after completing a management buy-out at GRG Public Resources. The duo have launched Call Handling Stafford as they begin plans to remodel the business which employs 43 on the Staffordshire Technology Park, Stafford. Meanwhile, two long serving staff members have been rewarded for their work by joining David …