E164 Punchline Talks! With Lynette Barrett, Chris Pockett, Alan Dane and Clare Honeyfield
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national & regional newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses.
Finally, they round off by picking the stories that have caught their eye in this week's Punchline-Gloucester.com.
The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by www.Hazlewoods.co.uk Accountants and Business Advisors.
This week’s panel of experts were:
Chris Pockett - Head of Communications at Renishaw. The engineering giant is Gloucestershire’s largest privately owned employer with a turnover approaching £700million employing over 2,600 across two sites in the county.
We find out from Chris how the company has fared over the past 12 months, its recruitment and its place in this years Paris Olympics.
Clare Honeyfield - is the owner and founder of Made In Stroud - which started out as a series of makers markets in 1991. Now the ‘famous’ retail shop is on Kendrick street and is the destination for unique artisanal gifts. Clare believes that Stroud is becoming a tourist ‘hot spot’ - and we’ll find out why and how the business was started and how she sources her products lines.
Alan Dane - is the newly appointed CEO of SGS Academy Trust (SGSAT) sponsored by South Gloucestershire & Stroud College, it is currently made up of three schools: Forest High; Berkeley Green UTC; and Pegasus School, in Patchway, South Gloucestershire. The trust has a turnover of £8m, has 150 staff educating 800 pupils - we’ll find out from him how’s it all going and what his plans to take them to the ‘next’ level are.
Lynette Barrett is the chief executive of Gloucestershire-based charity National Star, which supports young people with complex disabilities. National Star has an average annual turnover of £46million and employs more than 1,250 full and part-time staff. We find out about their fund raising and the difficulties of running a charity.
Jam packed as always - this is another great show that covers so much more.
The show is sponsored by:
HAZLEWOODS BUSINESS ADVISERS AND ACCOUNTANTS.
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