Insight: A charity on the frontline in Gloucestershire

“We are worried what we will find when the lights come back on” is what charities told The Raikes Journal in the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. They were right to be concerned.

Dear reader,

Welcome to our first edition of the week.

Today we follow a particularly popular trilogy of unrelated stories which led our three editions last week.

We touched on everything from a £30 million investment to help tackle Gloucetershire’s housing crisis on Monday, the testing of a digital portal which could provide SME’s with access to £550 million of funding on Thursday, and on Friday we launched our Ones to Watch series.

The latter saw us talk to aviation training firm boss Lee Woodward, of Skyborne, about growth, the future of its home - Gloucestershire Airport - and whether the airport’s sale means any investment will happen elsewhere from now on.

Today we thought those who continue to fight the good fight for apprenticeships will be interested to know there are figures showing their popularity could well overtake degrees very soon.

And then there is our article on a simply incredible charity - Young Gloucestershire.

Anyone in the third sector will know the challenges have onl…