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In a much needed piece of good news for the business community, the south-eastern estate agency, Robinson Jackson, has announced that their sales figures for the weeks after lockdown were their highest ever for that period.

Our latest leadership roundup brings news of two successful building projects, a quick response to Covid-19, and advice on starting a new business and moving an existing business onto the cloud.

Kindred is an advocacy organisation based in Edinburgh which works with families of children with disabilities and other additional support leads. Being an operation that is run entirely by a voluntary board of trustees and a dedicated staff team of volunteers, CEO Sophie Pilgrim is no stranger to the value of providing expertise and services on a pro bono basis.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens.

With environmental considerations very much a priority for the UK, many industries are keen to play their part, and Brown & Tawse, a steel stockholder and distributor based in Dundee and across other sites in Scotland and northern England, is one business that has gotten off to a head start and been reshuffling its operations in recent years with the environment and the future in mind.

Nasreen Karim’s Bradford-based law firm Platinum Partnership Solicitors have scooped the ‘Law Firm of the Year’ prize at the CorporateLivewire Leeds and West Yorkshire Prestige Awards 2020.

It is well-documented that consumer habits have been changing for some time. More and more people are deciding to pass up on the opportunity of making journeys into their local retail parks and high streets and are instead opting for the convenience of purchasing online within the comfort of their own home and waiting for the product of choice to come to them. According to the Office for National Statistics, online sales accounted for 21.4 per cent of total retail sales in December 2019, and as the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and non-essential retailers were abruptly forced to close their doors in March, the popularity of online purchasing - albeit out of necessity - continued to soar.

West-Bromwich based chemical manufacturers Robinson Brothers have come in for a great deal of thanks from their local community for their huge generosity and impressive agility in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sparta Global - a technology services company focused on attracting, training and delivering the UK’s top business and technology professionals - has announced that Inflexion Private Equity Partners as a new majority investor.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens.

Our latest leadership roundup brings news of extensive praise for Simon Barnes’ TLC Live, a very informative and personal reflection on health and welfare attorneyship from Timefinder’s Alison Hesketh, and an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for AIM’s Alison Kemp.

In our latest series of leadership quotations, we hear from the prime minister and the EU commission president on the state of play of the trade negotiations, we hear from Mark Drakeford on the Great Wall of Wales, from Jane Board on putting patients first, from Donna Copley on the difficulties of recruiting young people, and from William Wragg on the triple lock.

In a triple-dose of positive news for those with a love of science, Medical Engineering Technologies have hired a seasoned new recruit, Holliday Fielding Hocking have reiterated their support for UK labs, and Mistura Informatics have spoken of their drive to improve medicine literacy.

In the UK, users of British Sign Language are not always able to easily access important health information in a comprehensible format, says Sarah Collis, CEO of Self Help UK. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and all of a sudden information needed to quickly be provided to the population about the need to socially-distance, remain at home and in some cases shield, this presented a problem.