MANY employers are experiencing difficulties with staffing levels due to self-isolation absences. This can frequently be seen daily in reduced bus and train services, or in problems with postal services. And whilst these are examples of large national employers it can affect businesses of all sizes.

For many of us, it isn’t our day job that makes us tick. Instead, we have something on the side, something which sparks joy in us – the reason we get up in the morning, the labour of love, or the hobby we struggle to pull away from.