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Covid-19 Help For Hospitality Podcast

Episode 3

To listen to this special Covid-19 Help For Hospitality episode of our Birmingham based food podcast with Alan & Mark from NCASS. Press play on the player above, alternatively you can listen on your favourite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

In this episode, Liam speaks to Alan & Mark from the Nationwide Caterers Association (NCASS). They talk about NCASS & what they do, how the COVID crisis has affected their members, what NCASS is doing to support members in the crisis, and share some of the great things their members are doing during lockdown

What Services Do NCASS Provide?

As well as advice with your business ideas, getting started, legal documentation & insurance. They offer practical help & support. Their website has a variety of online training courses on Health & Safety, Starting a street food business and sustainability. As well as this they will help you find work opportunities and even offer a number of discounts with suppliers.

Episode 1

Corporate Lawyer Michael Buckworth

To listen to this special Covid-19 Help For Hospitality episode of our Birmingham based food podcast Breaking Bread with corporate lawyer Michael Buckworth. Press play on the player above, alternatively you can listen on your favourite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Michael Buckworth Buckworths Law covid 19 help for hospitality podcast

Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Breaking Bread, after doing this podcast for the last 16 months we have developed friendships with a lot of the food & drink businesses in the area. We have decided to try and use our podcast to help those people in the industry by recording some special interviews.

We have decided to try and use our podcast to help those people in the industry

This is episode 1 of covid-19 help for hospitality and is with corporate lawyer Michael Buckworth. Michael, the managing director of Buckworths, has a huge breadth of experience advising startups and high growth companies in a range of sectors including technology, fin-tech, digital and hospitality. Named as “Corporate Lawyer of the Year” for the past four years, he spends much of his time advising clients on corporate and commercial strategy as well as dealing with other issues facing their businesses.

Michael Buckworth from Buckworths law firm Covid 19 help for Hospitality Podcast

Michael read law at Merton College, Oxford University from where he graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree. He qualified and worked at the London offices of two top US law firms before setting up Buckworths in 2011.

Buckworths is the only firm in the market working exclusively with startups and high growth businesses. Its sister company, Buckworths Compliance provides tailored advice to startups and high growth businesses on compliance with GDPR and the wider data protection regime.

I speak to Michael about the help and grants being offered to businesses by the government and how to apply for them, and how best from a legal point of view do businesses deal with the current crisis. If you have found this episode useful & would like to contact Buckworths for more support or advice call +44 020 7952 1723