Future Star Programme

Meet the Posh Cockney Future Star Programme Class of 2021

After months of planning, we can finally share our exciting news with you!

Posh Cockney have created a Future Star Programme to help young people gain on the job, real life work experience in PR and Marketing – an opportunity that the pandemic has hindered for many.

This opportunity will allow them to learn first-hand what it takes to work in the busy world of PR and Marketing – particularly as the hospitality sector begins to reopen, whilst being guided and supported by the Posh Cockney team. The Future Star’s will have a tailored, three-month plan allowing them to study, work on real accounts and ask all the questions they need to in a safe space.

“We decided as a team to give back and support people on a three-month crash course style internship. People can come and work with us for us three days a week and deal with real clients whilst getting great training and one to one mentorship from our team. They can meet people from within the lifestyle and hospitality industries and start building connections.”

“This is the first class of the future star programme and we have brought in nine unique and talented young people who we feel could be future stars within the marketing and PR world. We all know that most people learn best by doing, so as great as university is, there is no replacement for on the job learning.” – Liam Norval, Posh Cockney CEO

This is a great opportunity for anyone that wants to better themselves and an incredible steppingstone into future employment. All work is done remotely and around individual schedules.

After the three months, Posh Cockney will be looking to hire some of the interns, whilst helping others to find employment.

“We are really excited about this scheme as there seems to be a huge gap for young people today. It is often impossible to get experience if you don’t already have experience! We are excited to be able to give people opportunities where they can work hard, learn and gain future work with our guidance.” Liam added.

Want to meet our class of 2021? Click Here.

Sophia Kearney, Future Star

“Having the chance to work so closely with the Posh Cockney team and their clients from the get-go has been amazing. Whilst only in the first week, I have already gained such valuable experience and industry insight. I am very much looking forward to what the next 3 months will bring!”

Katy Townshend, Future Star

"I am so excited to be able to work alongside the Posh Cockney team on real accounts and be given the opportunity to learn and immerse myself into the creative, challenging and dynamic industry of marketing and PR with training from Posh Cockney team managers".

Alice Bugnoni, Future Star

"This opportunity represents the first step towards the work world, and I am honored to start my career from here."


Models on Catwalk

A digital makeover for London Fashion Week

Always wanted a front-row seat at London fashion week? You’re in luck because this year, we are all invited.

After the huge success of last year’s semi-digital London Fashion Week, the event is back. This time, fully digital, with the support of Clearpay.

From Friday 19th February (today!) until Tuesday 23rd February, you can watch Global Designers show off their latest collections from the comfort of your own home.

Models on Catwalk

This year, for the first time ever, both Menswear and Womenswear will be exhibited alongside each other in a gender-neutral show. There will also be a number of Podcasts, Webinars, Designer Showrooms and Collection Presentations available to all.

Josephine Jones, model and the first transgender designer at LFW, told Sky News:

“Clothing, to me, has always been about creativity and never boundaries… except breaking them, that is! Some of the chicest girls I know dress like boys anyway, and vice versa.”

Josephine, like many designers, is excited by the progression in London Fashion Week.

Usually, London Fashion Week would see 5,000 people flock to the capital, excited to take their seats at this world-renowned event. Whilst we can all agree that digital is no replacement for live events, this is a historic move for the fashion industry.

Head to, London Fashion Week’s Website to tune into the Live coverage.


Eat Out to Help Out

Eat out to Help Out 2.0 – a good or bad idea?

Last summer, the Eat Out to Help out scheme was used 100 million times, but should it be brought back?

For many businesses, the scheme was a massive help. But for some, particularly in seaside towns where the summer months are already incredibly busy, it led to staff being hugely over worked. Police presence was required at one venue in Leicester when things got out of hand there.

There is also data to suggest that the Eat Out to Help Out scheme led to an increase in Covid cases and was a cause of the start of the second wave of the pandemic, with Boris Johnson agreeing with this in a press conference in October.

Frederick Szydlowski, Co-founder of Embargo and Hospitality Titan disagrees with this:

“The problem with the general perception of last year’s Eat Out Help Out Scheme comes mainly from the misleading data that the public is fed. Many assume that it has led to a major increase of cases. However, three weeks ago Rishi Sunak said that there is link between the EOHO Scheme to the spike of cases during Q4 2020. Looking at the actual data of where cases have been coming from, hospitality has clearly been one of the safest places to be. I strongly believe another similar scheme should definitely be considered as hospitality needs a significant boost and there is no doubt that venue operators have shown that they take safety measures extremely seriously.”

Deliveroo and hundreds of other restaurants have called for the scheme to be reintroduced, along with a number of other measures to help the hospitality industry to survive. These include an extension of the furlough scheme, a 5% vat reduction on food and prioritising hospitality staff for testing and vaccinations.

Eat Out to Help Out

We spoke to Morris Greenberg, Hospitality Titan and Managing Director at CDG Leisure about this:

“In my view, the government needs to be focused on the process involved in getting the leisure industry reopened, whilst limiting redundancies, as much as possible, that will inevitably have to be made when furlough stops. This includes landlords taking premises back due to back rent owed causing liquidations and a surplus of empty premises coming back to market. So for me I would like to see more focus on policies extending the VAT reduction, extending the business rates holiday for another year and reintroducing the job retention grant. Perhaps some intervention between landlord and tenant negotiations once protection is lifted such as landlords to agree to a percentage of what is owed to be paid over a term. All of this will help the industry to reopen and then once reopened, whilst I am sure the resurgence of people going out will be quick, if it is felt the industry needs help in getting kickstarted policy’s like the Eat Out to Help Out scheme to be reintroduced. Although it will need to be amended in order to take into account the problems that occurred last time.”

What is the Eat Out to Help Out scheme?

Eat Out to Help Out gave diners 50% off their food bill (up to £20 per person) at participating restaurants from Monday – Wednesday. Thousands of restaurants across the country signed up.

Do we need an incentive to get back to pubs, bars and restaurants? Or will we all be eagerly waiting outside on the first day of re-opening, with or without a discount?

 Read more about the first Eat Out to Help Out Scheme here.