Despite Rishi Sunak’s instructions UK banks have currently approved a miserly 0.65% of the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS). The figures come from CITY AM obtained independently and published earlier today. Rishi Sunak and the Government Treasury are clearly being ignored by UK Banks, and while they continue to do so good businesses are disappearing … [Read more...]
Products and services to help hospitality businesses transform to delivery services
The onset of COVID-19 and its impact on the hospitality industry has been, to use the totally overused term currently, unprecedented. The impact is primarily two fold, firstly on health and secondly on economics, with most hospitality businesses now closed. The reactions across the hospitality industry have largely been heroic, our news pages are filled with examples of … [Read more...]
4,400 mile small plane private charter rescues 10 elderly UK holiday makers
We are delighted to feature this news story, where one travel company went to astonishing lengths to rescue 10 of their customers. The trip was made at the cost of the travel company where the first priority was to simply rescue people in need. On Friday 3rd April, HPB chartered its own small plane to travel from England to Izmir, Turkey where it met 10 stranded travellers … [Read more...]
Tech-Media Caterer sets up COVID-19 delivery to feed the vulnerable
With the rapidly developing situation around CoVID-19, the beginning of March saw a considerable shift in lifestyles for all workers across London. The tech industry quickly adapted to a work from home routine that soon spread across to other sectors, even before it became a government directive. As a caterer to tech-media firms, Fooditude had to quickly respond to this … [Read more...]
Splendid Hospitality providing ‘splendid hospitality’ for London NHS workers
Privately-owned hotel group Splendid Hospitality is providing rooms at one of its London properties for NHS staff. Holiday Inn London–Wembley is working with London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust and is currently providing 50 rooms for staff who are working round the clock or need to avoid returning home to a household they might share with vulnerable … [Read more...]