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Astro…always learning…always growing…always helping

By Sarah Smith
on 9th March 2021

Our clients know Sarah Smith as the safest pair of hands you can find as our Head of Service Management, but alongside her full-time, senior management team role with Astro, Sarah has been doing something incredible to help us...

Lightning XR724 – The story continues, kind of

By Dean Bruce
on 19th November 2020

So much for quarterly updates on the progress made on XR724! Like very much the rest of the world, our ambitions and plans for the renovation ground to a halt back in March. For an elderly aircraft who lives...

Life at the Lottie

By Steve Holmes
on 29th June 2020

Steve Holmes (Sherlock) is one of our most technical credible and capable members of staff. As team leader of our systems team they manage, maintain and develop some extremely complex environments for our customers. On top of this he...

The Simple Things

By Steve Smith
on 23rd June 2020

What did you do in lockdown? I wish I had a pound for every time someone asked me “how have you been affected by COVID-19” or even “have you been affected by COVID-19?” I am not an avid news...

Work Hard, Play Harder… Lockdown Style

By Sarah Smith
on 9th June 2020

Day 77 – 11 weeks in and the new ‘normal’ has started to evolve. Roads are busier, non-essential shops are starting to open and some schools are welcoming back children on limited timetables in smaller class sizes. Over the...

Apprenticeships offer amazing opportunities, just ask Nathan Lee

By Steve Smith
on 3rd February 2020

National Apprenticeship Week 2020 – Nathan Lee Today sees the start of National Apprenticeship Week and there are almost 400 events celebrating apprenticeships around England. These include: open days, award presentations and engagements with schools and colleges. I started...

Time to hear the Lightning roar

By Dean Bruce
on 30th January 2020

I am one of life’s fortunate few, by that I mean I got to do the thing I always wanted to do and for me that was to work on fast jets. Once it was pointed out to me...

Social Mobility, Digital Inclusion – linked and vitally important

By Steve Smith
on 20th January 2020

Social Mobility has featured very highly for many years in the pro-bono work I am involved with through my Livery Company – the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ (WCIT). I have had the privilege of meeting people who have...

The Princess, the Countess and the Court Liveryman

By Steve Smith
on 11th November 2019

October 10 was a very special day for me. I became a Court Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists – WCIT. I feel very privileged to have been given the responsibility that goes with this, especially as...