On this final edition of 2020, Cheltenham M.P. Alex Chalk gives us his frank view of how the town's businesses are coming through the economic shock created by the pandemic. It's a patchy experience for the town but the unemployment figures s

Dishing Up Survival Strategies to Keep Your Restaurant in Business

Dec 17th, 2020 18m 9s

Chun Kong owns The Mayflower Restaurant in Cheltenham. His family opened what is now one of the town's premier eating venues decades ago in 1982 and Chun is an old hand at preparing his much-loved Cantonese-style cuisine business to survive ec

How the Covid-crisis became our catalyst of change

Dec 10th, 2020 27m 5s

Lorrin White is CEO of Bamboo Technology - a sizeable group based in Cheltenham offering business communications and cyber and threat intelligence services among their offerings. The company was in the enviable position at the start of the pand

How using social media raised our profile during lockdown

Dec 2nd, 2020 18m 36s

Catherine Mountain started listening to her followers on social media during lockdown and was fascinated by what she heard. The experience prompted her and her business partner Tim (also her husband) to entirely revamp their marketing strategy.

How to survive as a freelancer - from a Gloucestershire author

Nov 26th, 2020 18m 33s

Gloucestershire author Sarah Townsend, shares her expert knowledge on surviving as a freelancer. Sarah is a Gloucestershire-based copywriting expert and her new book "Survival Skills for Freelancers" is incredibly well-timed to help people rei

How Covid-19 has impacted England's legal profession

Nov 19th, 2020 26m 42s

Welcome back to the second series of Business Revival - in Gloucestershire. This week, Christopher Price, Partner at Taynton's Solicitors in Gloucester is our guest. His revelations about the effect of the pandemic on the legal profession in th

A reality check for Gloucestershire business from the FSB's Sam Holliday

Oct 20th, 2020 15m 28s

This week the Federation of Small Business' Sam Holliday provides a sobering view of our region's business landscape. Sam is the Development Manager for the FSB's Gloucestershire and the West of England office and has many years of experience e

How to grow and thrive during a lockdown even if you are forced to furlough your staff

Oct 13th, 2020 19m 30s

Laura Crabb is the founder of Boxtree Gifts - an online giftbox ordering company. Although still quite a young enterprise, Laura managed to keep it going despite having to furlough her staff during lockdown. She did so well in fact that her bus

How to Keep Serving Customers Craft Beer Even During a Pandemic

Oct 5th, 2020 17m 47s

The very essence of an entrepreneur is to be able to see opportunities when everyone else is running scared. Gloucestershire's well-known craft beer maker Hillside Brewery and its Managing Director Paul Williamson are a prime example of just th

Order a slice of this Gloucestershire entrepreneur's life-style secret!

Sep 29th, 2020 23m 26s

This pizza-making entrepreneur only became one because COVID-19 brought her other income streams to a painful halt. But Rachael Willoughby is nothing if not resourceful and once she has a good idea, she moves heaven and earth to make it happen.

Rosie Jefferies - keeping parents sane in Gloucestershire and around the world

Sep 22nd, 2020 19m 11s

Parents everywhere felt the strain during the lockdown but spare a thought for adoptive parents of traumatised and neglected children, profoundly damaged by the cruelty of their early years. Caring for them is exhausting, draining and must som

How one Gloucestershire cancer charity kept funds rolling in during lockdown

Sep 12th, 2020 19m 30s

The Gloucestershire charity "Hope For Tomorrow" did more than keep its head above water during lockdown. While so many charities struggled to cope in the face of cancelled fund-raising events, "Hope For Tomorrow" not only kept funds rolling in

Deploying an Acute Risk Radar as the Pandemic Loomed

Sep 8th, 2020 13m 52s

We should be thankful for people like Clare Seed of Tidal Training Direct. Her acute risk radar meant she acted quickly to prevent her business inadvertently spreading the Covid-19 virus through their popular face-to-face First Aid Training cou

Proudly Protecting Old Folk From The Pandemic

Aug 24th, 2020 18m 28s

David Chalk, of Windrush Care, is proud that his thriving home care services business kept his vulnerable clients safer in their own homes than they would have been in residential accommodation. As he explains, none of his staff tested positive

Destination lift off: how regional airports can accelerate business recovery

Aug 10th, 2020 22m 1s

Nick Weston, CEO of Weston Aviation adapted quickly to the crisis created by the onset of the corona virus and the severe curtailing of air traffic. Now he sees the role of regional airports as vital in the recovery process because they offer a

Chris Hickey - Giving Gloucestershire Business the Kiss of Life

Jul 23rd, 2020 26m 12s

Chris Hickey knows a thing or two about returning from the dead. And he's applying his masterful HR skills to Gloucestershire businesses' employee issues throughout this crisis. Our business expert Gill Smith from The Business Kitchen gives he