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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...

The Clipper Race

By Steve Hodges
on 4th November 2019

Yesterday I spent the day in Gosport at The Clipper Race head office receiving a talk about the detail of the race and then having an interview for a place on the 2021/2022 Round the World Race. For...

My first experience of Camp Cando

By Gemma Vowles
on 24th September 2019

Last week, I tried something different compared to my usual PA role. I decided that I would take part in something that Astro participates in every year – Camp Cando. Camp Cando is a voluntary organisation that gives a...

Children are the Future

By Steve Hodges
on 7th August 2019

Championing young people has always been important part of Astro’s culture, and our long-running apprenticeship scheme has seen many youngsters join us and stay with us for many years, moving up through the business and becoming key members of...

Camp Cando Cup

By Kris Ruffell
on 5th June 2019

The concept of raising money for charity first caught my attention as a young child. Each year, my mum would put the London Marathon on TV and I recall her explaining how the competitors were subjecting themselves to a...

A problem that is starting to balloon, with a very simple solution!

By Steve Hodges
on 30th May 2019

This weekend was another mile-builder along my way to becoming a Commercially Endorsed Offshore Yachtmaster. I am currently a qualified Coastal Yachtmaster and I still have 500 sea miles to build before my next assessment in October. This trip...

By Steve Hodges
on 19th March 2019

Astro Communications MD, Steve Hodges, was interviewed recently by Lloyd Vassell of Mergermarket Ltd you can read the whole interview here. Astro Communications could acquire on road to becoming GBP 10m- sales business – MD Astro Communications, a UK-based telecoms...