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Highly Decorated Work! Decorators talk about life on new Dulux Academy Podcast The Dulux Academy Podcast: Life as a decorator features the voices of the nation’s professional painters and decorators. Each half-hour episode will allow professionals to share best practice, business tips and personal stories, on subjects as diverse as mental health, the new normal and how they are building up their businesses again. Episode one features Darren Whitfield, Morley Lane and Les Copestake, all of whom own their own decorating businesses working mostly in the domestic sector. The guys discuss lockdown, how their businesses survived and have evolved, along with the practicalities of managing their own health and completing the painting jobs at home. Above all they share how each of them is facing up to the new ways of working that the pandemic has brought to everyone.
Hosted by Tony Pearson-Young from the Dulux Academy, who has put down his brush and picked up a mic with ease, the idea for the series was borne out of the lockdown. Vickie Mather, Dulux Academy Lead, adds: “Like everyone in the industry, we have had to innovate to keep on doing what we do best. In our case, it’s helping decorators learn new skills, and helping them grow their businesses, so by sharing best practice from across the country via the podcasts we can keep decorators connected at this time.” Since opening, the Dulux Academy has trained more than 8,500 decorators with more than 50 different courses now available to professionals in the industry. In June, Dulux Academy Live was launched to provide workshops online for the first time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON DULUX ACADEMY LIVE VISIT WWW.RDR.LINK/BV084 THE DULUX ACADEMY PODCAST: LIFE AS A DECORATOR IS AVAILABLE ON ITUNES AND SPOTIFY VISIT WWW.RDR.LINK/BV085