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 suggest Cheltenham has greater resilience than many of its counterparts elsewhere in the U.K.

Alex also discusses what could and should be happening to the town's High Street  as the retail sector continues to suffer and also about how cyber innovation will be hugely important to Cheltenham's recovery. 

Listen in for Alex's response to questions from the town's limited company directors who feel government support programmes have passed them by.                         

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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 economic shock. 
 
Since then, he has steered the business through economic downturns every decade or so and now has his own hard and fast rules for ensuring survival. 

Find out what they are on this week's podcast.                                                           

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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 pandemic crisis. It found that, overnight, it had become THE most important contact in their clients' address books.  

Lorrin has made the most of this silver lining by beefing up her internal communications systems and concentrating with new-found enthusiasm on social media  - principally through educational posts.  

She has introduced new working practices during lockdown that have proved so popular with the workforce, that they will be kept on as a permanent feature.  Listen to the edition for more. 

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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.

Catherine and Tim run the Gloucestershire multi-media content production company Evenlode Films and Productions. They have sterling film backgrounds at the BBC and in live event and music production.

Catherine is responsible for some truly creative ideas for spectacular lighting events but the onset of lockdown meant work ceased on their projects.   

Suddenly, she had the time to really study what people were talking about on social media and on this podcast episode. She tells us what happened next as a result.
                                                                       
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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 reinvent themselves as entrepreneurs  following job losses caused by the pandemic. You can buy the book here

If you're seeking to revive your career by working for yourself,  Sarah shares a whole host of practical tips to help you make the best use of available resources, to stay connected and to protect your mental well-being.   There's more about Sarah and her business here. 
                                                                       
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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 this country come as quite a surprise. 

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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 editing regional newspapers. 

He works to support thousands of members who run small businesses or are self-employed and no one could be better placed to know where things are heading. 

Sam reports on how the country's businesspeople are faring in the current climate with parts of the UK teetering on the edge of a new lockdown in October 2020. 

It's not all gloomy - Sam tells us there are definitely silver linings as the true entrepreneurs among us spot opportunities during these otherwise difficult times.  

This is the last episode in the current series but "Business Revival - in Gloucestershire" will be back in November. 

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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 business ballooned and went from two employees to 10 - once a semblance of normality returned.

Laura was in close touch with the mood of the nation during the worst of the lockdown as she handwrote the messages that relatives asked her to place in the boxes.

On this edition of the Business Revival - in Gloucestershire podcast, she tells us how important communication with clients was to the success of the business.

Our business expert, Gill Smith, of The Business Kitchen explores the power of listening to your customers as she examines Laura's survival strategy.

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