Apprenticeships offer amazing opportunities, just ask Nathan Lee
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...
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Time to hear the Lightning roar
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...
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The Princess, the Countess and the Court Liveryman
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...
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The Clipper Race
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...
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Cultivating a Positive Company Culture in a Technology Business
The culture of an organisation is defined by the Chartered Management Institute as its “personality and character” made up of its “shared values, beliefs and assumptions” – I don’t disagree, however, the juxtaposition here in Technology businesses is that...
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Culture Change Award Success for the Astro Team
Astro Communications is delighted to announce it has been shortlisted in Total Telecom’s first ever Culture Change Awards. We are in some prestigious company – see all the finalists here. As a company with culture at our very core,...
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My first experience of Camp Cando
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...
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Astro CEO joins charity leadership team
Astro Technology Group is delighted to announce that Chief Executive Officer, Steve Hodges has joined the management team of the company’s primary chosen charity, Camp Cando, in the role of Vice Chair. Astro has supported this fantastic charity, which takes...
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Children are the Future
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...
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Social Mobility, Digital Inclusion – linked and vitally important
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...
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