Helping traders - Chris Woodman (right) and investor Frank Nash show off the app A PITSEA wedding photographer has created a new app to help small businesses who are on the verge of going bust due to the pandemic. Coronavirus has resulted in countless weddings being cancelled across south Essex, meaning snapper Chris Woodman has been left with no form of income. But Mr Woodman has put his time to good use and created a digital application which will allow firms and market stall holders without websites to sell their goods despite being unable to meet with customers during lockdown.
Business Owners Grapple with an Industry Battered by Restrictions
Fitness
For a year and a half after F45 Training Hampshire Meadows opened in Hadley, owner Danny Deane knew what members wanted to get fit, sure, but also to cultivate a sense of family and community with their fellow goal-setters.
“We were sharing equipment, people were shoulder to shoulder, giving sweaty high fives,” he said, noting that none of that has been possible since the pandemic began.
Danny and Jessye Deane, owners of two local F45 Training franchises.
In fact, the fitness center, like all others in this industry, closed its doors for almost four months, a casualty of Gov. Charlie Baker’s sweeping lockdowns in March, following by a slow, gradual, phased approach to reopening during which time F45 launched online programs and later ran outdoor boot camps before getting the all-clear to invite members back inside.