With pic: Lenny Sims (centre) with Emily Small and Kate Barnard, Directors, Richard Jacobs Pensions and Trustee Services.  Up and coming England cricketer Ilenia Sims is receiving support from Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Richard Jacobs Pensions and Trustee Services as she pursues a career in a sport which catapulted her great great uncle to international stardom. Ilenia – known as Lenny – is …

Legionella control experts SAS Water Ltd are seeing an upturn of enquiries regarding water safety if premises need to be locked down due to the current coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. The Leek-based company works with companies and public sector organisations across the UK including hotels, leisure centres, holiday parks, factories, social housing companies and care homes. Managing Director Lizzie Ward said: …

An English businessman with a global outlook believes his new way of working will start a trend due to the current coronavirus outbreak. Julian Stubbs, is originally from Cheltenham, but now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where he founded UP THERE, EVERYWHERE, a company with no employees, but with members from Shanghai to San Francisco. All members are UP in the …

Experienced nursery manager Diana Hemmings is planning more flexible services to help parents juggling work and childcare after taking on the popular Twinkle Tots Day Nursery, Endon. Diane and husband Neil Hemmings bought Twinkle Tots in late 2019, achieving Diana’s ambition to run her own children’s nursery following a successful career as a nursery manager and as a development professional …

An international agency and their North Staffordshire based partners have been appointed to support the Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership as they seek to brand the area as the premier destination for inward investment. Cheshire and Warrington is already the best performing economy in the North of England and one of the most successful and fastest growing economies in …

A Stafford store showcasing the best in high quality kitchens and interior design, opens in Stafford on Saturday (14 March). Staffordshire Kitchens is run by award winning Stafford businesswoman and interior designer Sandra Johnson. The new store is located at 200 North Walls, Stafford, on the first floor above Plumbits Trade Counter. Sandra already has a successful interior design business, …

 Employment lawyer Karen Coleman will launch a series of seminars and workshops at a Staffordshire Moorlands business centre. The owners of Daisy Bank House Business Centre,  are planning monthly events at the complex on Leek Road, Cheadle. Karen will present a half day workshop , an experienced lawyer working with the title HR Essentials for Business Owners. She said: “The …

Scouts from across the UK are expected to come together in Staffordshire in April, as the Kibblestone International Scout Campsite holds its first Childhood Memories Weekend. The gates of the 98-acre are being flung open between 24 and 26 April to allow former Scouts to relive their childhood memories, enjoy a range of supervised activities, sit around a traditional Scout …

All current office space has been let at the historic Phoenix Works, Longton.   Now, with work set to begin on restoration of the bottle ovens as a part of the final office spaces, owner Mark Milner has decided to market the neighbouring courtyard at the former Thomas Forester pottery works as a potential housing development.   Known as 500 …

An accountancy firm, which has raised more than £50,000 for charities from a series of challenges, has unveiled plans for a fifth gruelling event this September. The Longest and Highest Challenge will see 12 colleagues from Geens Chartered Accountants row 11-miles across Windermere, England’s longest lake and climb Scafell Pike, the country’s highest peak. The challenge team will also cycle …