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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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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Camp Cando Cup
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...
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A problem that is starting to balloon, with a very simple solution!
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...
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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...
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog
This week I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the BT Partner event at the top of the BT Tower in London. Aside from the incredible venue, and superb speaker in Lawrence Dallaglio, I was completely stunned...
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Astro gets busy with a fizzy soda stream
As a qualified Yachtmaster, with a natural affinity with the sea, I have enjoyed sharing my passion with the Astro team and we have undertaken many staff sailing trips over the years. With this is mind, the BBC documentary...
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Camp Cando 2018
Camp Cando 2018 New kids, new leadership, same values, same fantastic outcomes and an important lesson in culture and transformation from an unexpected place Last week I did my, now annual, pilgrimage to the woods in Kent to help...
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Under Attack – The day cybercriminals launched an attack on me
I think I am generally aware of the potential of a cyber-attack at all times. I also believe I know what to do in the event of an attack. However, the moment I realised I was under attack I...
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Lightning – can we really protect against it?
Many of us in the British Isles witnessed a spectacular display of lightning during what meteorologists referred to as the mother of all storms. Headlines reporting up 20,000 lightning strikes with some areas experiencing a month’s rainfall in one...
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