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Established in the year 1995, project and construction management, architecture, and M&E design firm AMS Ltd began as a small team of people in an Edinburgh office on a mission to create innovative design and build practices that were more client-focused than those that dominated the market at the time. To date, the AMS team remains a small one and is still based in the Scottish capital, yet its approach has helped accomplish numerous large-scale projects which have benefited clients across the globe. Much of this success is owed to the leadership of its managing director, Stephen Martin, who combined his personal experience with consultancy in order to craft better and more client-centric solutions.

Shann Jones of Chuckling Goat asks the question of 'how can you serve?' In an effort to make 2021 a more positive year by looking after your community and fellow human beings.

Wendy Richards is a businesswoman who has enjoyed much success during her stint as managing director of The Nappy Lady Ltd. She first joined the nappy specialist and retailer in 2006, after 11 years working as a store manager with WH Smith Ltd. Since working her way up the corporate ladder of the company to become managing director in 2010, the business has secured multiple awards including being named the Best Independent Retailer at the Nursery Industry Awards in 2013. However, it would be the year 2020 that would bring about the greatest test of her tenure so far.

As we enter 2021 and a difficult year came to a close The Leaders Council looked back at the top 5 most read news stories from 2020.

Castleford-based LED lighting provider Sensio Lighting has recently become a registered partner for Lutron’s Homeworks QS phase adaptive system.

Norman Wallis of Universal Attractions, which operates Southport Pleasureland will be supporting Alder Hey Children’s Charity for 2021. The charity supports Alder Hey Childrens Hospital and raises money for a variety of causes from specialist medical equipment to ensuring the children have on ward entertainment and healthy food from a specialist chef programme.

For most of the country the festive season has been one of tier 3 or tier 4 restrictions and nowhere has this been felt any more than across the hospitality industry. With the busiest time of the year having been missed in the run up to Christmas and New Years eve as one of the biggest single take nights of the year being missed out on 2020 has been bleak.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus pandemic 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.

Alba Power and Sulzer have recently announced a ground-breaking partnership with Orbital Energy Limited, which will enable Alba and Sulzer to offer an entirely comprehensive and independent SGT-A35 engine support service.

Fire protection specialists Pyrotect have recently assisted national contractor Wates Construction on the completion of works at Nottingham College City Hub, a landmark new campus for the institution in the heart of the East Midlands city.

While the Covid-19 crisis has left numerous industries fighting an uphill battle, few have been left more stricken by the pandemic than the culture, leisure and hospitality sectors which have been blighted by the longest periods of intermittent closure.

As we enter the thick of the festive season, New Year’s resolutions are once more beginning to come into the forefront of people’s minds and after a testing 2020, many are looking to ensure that the year 2021 will be a year that is lived out to the full.

Former prime minister Herbert Asquith once said of the Chequers Estate that it “is what the holder chooses and is able to make of it”. This statement was never truer than under the premiership of David Cameron, spanning 2010 to 2016.

During Margaret Thatcher’s 11-year term as prime minister of the United Kingdom, spanning 1979 to 1990, she described the Chequers Estate as one of “the twin centres” of her “personal and professional life”, alongside Number 10.