Rupert Douglas

As we enter 2021 and a difficult year came to a close The Leaders Council looked back at the top 5 most read news stories from 2020.

Norman Wallis of Universal Attractions, which operates Southport Pleasureland will be supporting Alder Hey Children’s Charity for 2021. The charity supports Alder Hey Childrens Hospital and raises money for a variety of causes from specialist medical equipment to ensuring the children have on ward entertainment and healthy food from a specialist chef programme.

For most of the country the festive season has been one of tier 3 or tier 4 restrictions and nowhere has this been felt any more than across the hospitality industry. With the busiest time of the year having been missed in the run up to Christmas and New Years eve as one of the biggest single take nights of the year being missed out on 2020 has been bleak.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens.

Former prime minister Herbert Asquith once said of the Chequers Estate that it “is what the holder chooses and is able to make of it”. This statement was never truer than under the premiership of David Cameron, spanning 2010 to 2016.

During Margaret Thatcher’s 11-year term as prime minister of the United Kingdom, spanning 1979 to 1990, she described the Chequers Estate as one of “the twin centres” of her “personal and professional life”, alongside Number 10.

Labour politician James Callaghan served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from April 1976 to May 1979. It is a known fact that he would spend his Christmas celebrations at the prime ministerial estate of Chequers, but it is the last of his holiday seasons at the country retreat which was by far the most politically significant.

With the Second World War in Europe having finally drawn to a close in May of 1945, the Christmas of that year was one of hope, despite rationing remaining in force.

December 25 approaches. Thoughts turn toward opening presents on Christmas morning, tucking into a traditional Turkey dinner, eating chocolate and sipping sherry, with eyes and ears nationwide ready to tune in to the Queen’s address to the nation. However, after the advent period of 2020 was dominated by questions over whether families can come together in spite of coronavirus restrictions across the country, it begs the question: what does the prime minister actually do at Christmas?

In a year dominated by restrictions across the globe as a result of the covid-19 outbreak, Red Rock Entertainment have been certified Carbon Neutral Plus, won Film Finance company of the year by the Innovation and Excellence Awards Guide 2020 and all of this following on from 2019 when Gary Collins was awarded top CEO of the year for London.

IncomeMax will receive £125,000 to scale up a new digital solution to help people recover financially post Covid. Nesta’s £3 million challenge is supported by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Money and Pensions Service and JPMorgan Chase.

In this leadership round-up we hear that the Yogscast have now raised over £1.5million since starting their annual Christmas charity drive, that Jo Chidley of Beauty Kitchens commits to lowering the impact of packaging on the environment and climate change could see a snow free England by 2040.

As we look to the end of a challenging 2020 organisations MENTA, SIONIC and TuVida are helping leaders prepare for the new year. This year has changed the face of leadership and learning those lessons will be integral to the economic recovery of the UK.

With the government announcement yesterday, of which areas of the UK are to be placed in which of the 3 tiers. Today we hear from two hospitality organisations facing the Tier 2 & Tier 3 restrictions in the run up to the festive period.

In today's leadership round-up we see the launch of two campaigns, the first to treat young people in care with more dignity and the second to promote best practise in ventilation across offices, schools & hospitals.