FOCUS UK 2010 - Q1

In this issue:

• SSA UK News
• News Features
  • Wokingham and Emmbrook youth team show off their new kit
    • Young footballers donned their new kit for the first time after two, seven-a-side youth teams merged
    • E-waste and computer recycling
    • Noddy Holder launches toy appeal
      • For the third year running the Macclesfield Express and sister titles joined forces with BiG Storage to make sure, despite the recession, there were p lenty of gifts for und er-privileged and vulnerable children from nominated local charities in the area.
    • Safestore donation facilitates outdoor learning at charity-run school
      • Craig-y-Parc school in Pentyrch, Cardiff, run by the disability charity, Scope, has benefited to the tune of £2,500 thanks to a fundraising initiative run by Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company.
    • “Gunner” in the boardroom
      • The UK’s largest self storage provider, Safestore, has boosted its boardroom firepower by hir ing Arsenal footba ll club’s former Managing Director, Keith Edelman.
    • Mission accomplished!
      • Despite the atrocious weather, a Smart Storage te am completed the Three Peaks Challenge in early November, 2009.
    • Enterprising advice at Chester Business School from BiG Storage boss
      • Andrew Donaldson, partner at BiG Storage, and a former winner of the High Sheriff’s Award for Enterprise, started his first company with £2,000 from the Prince’s Trust and grew it into a multi-million pound business
    • Slit Gong – c/o Derbyshire Self Storage
      • The photograph opposite shows TV auctioneer, Charles Hanson, thanking Derbyshire Self Storage Manager, Garry Goodman, for the safe storage of a traditional “Slit Gong” from the South Pacific island of Ambrym, while awaiting its auction in Derby
    • Help from your bank – backed by the UK Government
    • New product launch!
      • Steel Storage is proud to announce the launch of its CUBIX Organisation System, the self storage industry’s newest innovation
    • Safebox’s charity car wash
      • On Sunday the 6th of December, 2009 Safebox Self Storage’s and Safebox Document Storage’s staff raised a fantastic amount of money for their nominated charity, Kidney Cancer UK
  • Business News
    • New Managing Director for Cavale UK
  • Legislation update
    • Time to Train
      • The Government anticipates that the right to request time off work to train will be implemented in 2010 and estimates that each year up to 300,000 people will undertake training .
  • Company Features
    • Safestore – branching out into the Midlands
      • Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company, has experienced a successful opening and trading at their new self storage facility in Leicester, since its launch in September, 2009
    • Storage Boost goes business crazy
      • Brothers Nick and Andy W ood of Storage Boo st have been celebrating the success of their Stafford facility, which opened in February, 2008.
    • Vanguard opens third site
    • Attic expands through the recession
  • Insurance Feature
    • What can be done about flooding?
  • Employment Feature
    • Harassment in the workplace