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CONTENTS ISSUE 47 APRIL/MAY 2020

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3 From The Top
BOSS CEO Amy Hutchinson
offers her thoughts 6 BOSS Lobbying Efforts 11 New Members 16 How To Access
How BOSS is lobbying An introduction and welcome Government Funding
3 Support For Those Directly government to safeguard to new BOSS members BCD BOSS can supply the very
Affected By COVID-19 our industry Supplies and Renz latest guidance from the
The BOSS Charity unveils Government relating to
a new initiative for these 7 BOSS Business Impact 12 Special Report: Home Alone? claims for reclaiming wage
difficult times Survey Findings BOSS Today discovers that costs through the new
Results highlighting the the boom in home working Coronavirus Job Retention
4 BOSS Reporting impact of COVID-19 on our caused by the Coronavirus Scheme
HP and partners mobilise 3D industry crisis is very much part of an
printing solutions to battle ongoing trend 17 CORONAVIRUS BUSINESS
COVID-19; Deflecto develops 8 Industry Voices INTERRUPTION LOAN SCHEME
new products; NJM produce BOSS Today speaks to two DOWN TO BUSINESS Who it might apply to and
free visors; Prime Group key industry players to gain how to access it
pivot for PPE insight into the challenges 15 Working from Home –
they anticipate for their Cyber Protection 18 Disaster Recovery Planning
5 Keeping Britain Clean, Safe businesses and any advice As more of us are now It is important for all
and Working: How We Can Help they can offer working from home we businesses to have a Disaster
BOSS lobby government for thought it may be useful Recovery Plan, and BOSS
additional business support to look at how a few can supply a document to
and highlight our industry’s simple steps can reduce members which can be used
role in the fight against homeworkers’ exposure to to prepare one
COVID-19 cyber threats

BOSS Board of Directors: Philip Beer, Geoffrey Betts, Simon Drakeford (Chairman), Steve Haworth, Charles Jarrold,
Rob Jenkins, Emily Jones, David Langdown, Stuart Login, Adam Noble, Sean Starkey, Frances Stephen
Regional Directors: Marcus Clifford – East & South East, Dawn Reid – Midlands & South West, Darren Shepherd – North
BOSS Federation Chief Executive Officer: Amy Hutchinson
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