This article first appeared on International Women’s Day 2025 published by PLMR – https://plmr.co.uk/2025/03/everyone-can-accelerate-action/ Sarah Windrum is the Head of Cluster Development at MIRA Tech Park in north Warwickshire and chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce’s North Warwickshire Local Business Forum. In this blog, the former chair of Coventry and Warwickshire Local […]
The 27th December 2022 saw us rise before 5am to ensure we left by the hour of six. We had at least a seven hour journey ahead of us from Warwick to Glencoe and JD wanted to be sure we made it in good time. I had not felt great since the week before Christmas […]
The Isle of Lewis is a 3.5 hour ferry journey from Ullapool on the mainland. Ullapool is at least a five hour drive from Gretna Green so we stayed there to break up our ten hour plus journey from Warwick. Ullapool itself is a stop on Scotland’s popular North Coast 500 route and a town […]
2022 is not a year I fancy repeating. We were forced to leave our new home in December 2021 and lived in temporary accommodation until August 2022 when I moved house and met my MSc dissertation deadline in the same week! I also spent the summer working through the practical application of a significant Government […]
We had to head for the beautiful Highlands for our first EV road trip! Be sure to watch my daughter’s video too
I was honoured to be asked to be a guest on BBC CWR with Lorna Bailey this week to review the daily newspapers. The first story I chose was from the Financial Times on quantum computing. As many of you will know, technology is something I am hugely passionate about and the story was predicting […]
It was great to be back at BBC CWR reviewing the newspapers with Phil Upton. As I begin my term as Chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership for Coventry and Warwickshire, I am keen to see it return to its former glory after the pandemic. ‘Boris on the Buses’ was my first story from the […]
In this assignment I am tasked with discussing how I propose to lead strategic change. The obvious role for me to use as context for this is the company I founded, but I hope to be able to understand how to apply the same learning to organisations where I do not hold an official leadership […]