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 sometimes seem futile.

Rosie Jefferies is the Managing Director of the Gloucestershire-based National Association of Therapeutic Parenting or NATP which provides advice, help and training to these parents and was herself rescued from a very disturbing family situation. Unsurprisingly, her organisation received a massive injection in terms of membership and income. How did it cope with the reverse of what so many businesses and organisations experienced and what is Rosie doing to capitalise on their growth?

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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 but successfully rolled out its services to a far wider catchment area.  

"Hope For Tomorrow" funds mobile cancer care units which take the treatment to the patient so they don’t have to travel miles to hospitals. It also means the risk of patients' contracting Covid-19 is significantly reduced.

NHS Trusts throughout the UK cottoned on to this innovation during lockdown and the charity’s vehicles were much in demand.

How did Fundraising Manager, Nikki Budding, maintain money-raising momentum?

Our business expert Gill Smith from The Business Kitchen comments on Nikki's impressive achievements and on some of the common themes beginning to appear across this podcast's interviews.

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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 courses in Gloucestershire.

But how do you cope for the future when operations are closed down and your business will be among the last to resume operations because of the nature of the business?

Our business expert Gill Smith from The Business Kitchen has some suggestions.

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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 for Covid-19 and consequently not a single client was lost to the disease.

David now finds Windrush Care is busier than ever and that this position is expected to hold for some time to come.

His main headache though continues to be recruiting the right kind of staff to work in an industry that is notoriously underfunded and held in low esteem. Something has to change.

Our business expert Gill Smith from The Business Kitchen weighs in with some useful ideas.

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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 much more efficient and safer means of transport. But more expensive, surely? Well, not necessarily.

Our business expert Gill Smith from The Business Kitchen offers some useful advice.

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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 her take on how Chris's company, Charlton HR, faced up to the challenge of the corona virus crisis.

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