Water hygiene professional Tracey Elston is helping to ensure staff safety at the Loughborough site of global contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing group, Almac. Tracy, a site engineer with SAS Water Ltd ensures water at Almac’s Charnwood laboratory facilities are protected against Legionella and other waterborne bacteria. “I visit Almac weekly and have built up positive relationships on site,” said …

Building services company Ford Mainwaring has confirmed its commitment to bringing through new talent by giving North Staffordshire school leavers Mitchell Lavery and Charlie Henaghan the chance to train as apprentices.  Mitchell, aged 16, and Charlie, 17, will work with Ford Mainwaring engineers four days a week and attend college once a week.  It’s part of a commitment from Ford Mainwaring …

When a major health scare threatened his life HR specialist Richard Tunnicliffe couldn’t have been blamed for taking a prolonged break from building a business. For many people, an operation to remove a brain tumour, would have been a signal to rein in plans to develop their small business, but just months after undergoing major surgery, Richard’s not only back …

A community family support service provided for children with special educational needs by the Peter Pan Centre is set to double its offer to families in North Staffordshire thanks to a successful bid for National Lottery funding. The near £250,000 lottery win will allow the Newcastle-under-Lyme based Peter Pan Centre to expand its specialist Stay and Play groups to venues …

A new bespoke monitoring and evaluation app developed in Staffordshire by Heaward Solutions is set to revolutionise how small and medium sized not for profit organisations record and analyse their work. Andrew Heaward, Managing Director of Stoke-on-Trent based Heaward Solutions, has helped scores of charities and not for profit organisations to develop effective strategies and raise vital funds. While each …