Charities based across Staffordshire are to benefit from fundraising efforts by Stone based Woolcool. The growing wool packaging company sponsored local sailor Mike Goodwin as he navigated around the British coastline to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Strategic Director Keith Spilsbury was part of the crew for the penultimate leg of the sailing marathon and has pledged to …
Mounsey Surveyors add Carl Baker and James Craine to their growing team
Expanding property agents, Mounsey Chartered Surveyors have bolstered their professional team. The Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, based company has secured the services of Carl Baker, a well-known name on the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire property scene. Carl, who lives in Alsager, joins Mounsey Chartered Surveyors as an Associate Director. James Craine, from Macclesfield, also joins the company as a Trainee …
Biggest Flip Out commission yet has Croft Architecture jumping for joy
A Staffordshire architects practice has won a contract to project manage the creation of the UK’s biggest Flip Out trampoline arena. The Chester Flip Out is to be developed by the business behind the hugely successful Flip Out Stoke development in Stone who have forged a successful partnership with Croft Architecture. “The development on the Chester Gates Business Park will …
Pop art inspires film makers to chronicle a unique charity project
A unique partnership between Cheshire based hospice charity Care2Save and the world’s most renowned living pop artist Sir Peter Blake has been documented by film-makers Inspired Film and Video. The artist, who is perhaps most famous for his work to create the iconic Sergeant Pepper album cover, has designed a unique Bentley Continental GT car to raise funds for …
BPA Services record rapid growth with Staffordshire and Cheshire contracts
Health and Safety specialists BPA Services has recorded a 30 per cent increase in business including contracts with world leading security inspection equipment manufacture, Rapiscan, and a host of businesses in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire. The Stoke-based business has secured a two-day a month contract to provide consultancy services to Rapiscan’s cargo and vehicle inspection facility in Biddulph. BPA …
Edwin helps Let’s Do Mentoring make a wider impact on the Staffordshire economy
Staffordshire’s highly successful mentoring scheme has the “Heineken effect” according to research on its outcomes. “It has the ability to reach companies that other agencies can’t reach,” said Adele Cope, Head of Business at Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce. Adele was reflecting on a report into the service by Edwin Lewis, lead researcher and Director of Staffordshire based company, Wider Impact …
Day & Knight ensure holiday hire boatyard is all shipshape this summer
An expanding Staffordshire electrician rowed to the rescue when a busy boatyard requested a complete electrical rewire. Award winning Day & Knight is taking on bigger projects after taking on two members of staff. Extra capacity meant owner David Knight was ready to climb on board when the Anglo Welsh Boatyard at Great Haywood needed a major electrical overhaul. “The …
Blog: PR stunts and the need to “keep it real”
August 23, 2016. PR stunts are a great way of getting your message noticed. When their publicist hired a boat for the Sex Pistols to play their anthem God Save the Queen, while floating along the Thames at the time of Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee, it thrust Punk out of the shadows and into mainstream consciousness. But, as the current …
SyTech IT has the answer to cyber bugs
Staffordshire based hi-tech innovators SyTech IT have earnt the right to sell a new kind of security protection as the fight against cyber-crime intensifies. New figures have revealed that almost six million online frauds and crimes were committed in UK in the last year. With hacking, identity theft and phishing now affecting around one in 10 of the UK population, …
It’s a family affair as Alton’s historic Bulls Head reopens with locals James and Gemma at the helm
See the story in the Sentinel newspaper from this release – http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/couple-to-embark-on-new-business-venture-as-landlords-of-village-pub/story-29643085-detail/story.html An historic pub which has previously been popular with locals, and tourists visiting Alton Towers and the Peak District countryside, is to be revived. It will be a family affair at the Bulls Head, High Street, Alton, after the local Miller family bought the 17th Century inn. Husband …