These videos have helped me reach a whole new audience and to raise the awareness of counselling generally. At the end of 2019 he decided to liquidate the company, laying off 25 staff and declaring himself bankrupt. You have been signposted to these short videos because you have been referred to, and are waiting to attend, the Survive and Thrive course or because your clinician, therapist or worker thinks you may find them helpful. Changing tastes and trends are also spurring demand for new crop varieties from farmers seeking to improve their livelihoods, whether it’s by growing quinoa or by cultivating pigeon peas.

Thankfully, the worry and fear I had about how my business would survive were completely unfounded - it has thrived through this period. Being in the centre of a community can also expose staff to crime, racism and aggressive behaviour. I spoke to Ravi, 29, who is working in Manchester Mini Market on Oldham Street. The shop is a classic British newsagents that has become a local attraction because of its huge selection of cold drinks, with every obscure flavour of fizzy juice imaginable, from watermelon Tango to mojito-flavoured 7up. Local publication The Manc described it as “like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, but for pop”. Ravi says that almost every day there is an incident with theft: just yesterday, a man loudly screamed at him and continued abusing shop staff outside once he was physically removed from the premises. This was the second incident in a week. As the song goes, I did what I had to do and I did it my way,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, live and let live. I don’t let things bother me these days.”Leaving a high-flying corporate job to set up a chain of cupcake shops in Sheffield was initially a dream come true for trained pastry chef Amanda Perry. For all the progress Britain has made, this cannot be said for those caught up in the Windrush scandal in 2018 when thousands of legal UK residents were mistakenly labelled as immigration offenders. People are still struggling to receive documentation and compensation, five years after the government first apologised.

He adds: “You feel like they are your little babies, it just makes you feel really good. People wanted to love their homes, there was a refreshed value on where you live. Just having things that are a nice vibe or feature to have in your home has become more and more important.” They didn’t know what lay ahead, and yet they prevailed. They rented rooms, worked hard and saved cash. My uncle, a contractor – a bit of a wheeler-dealer – helped guys find rooms, bought some houses, rented out more rooms. My dad, who arrived in 1953, stayed in one of them: part of the Caribbean-to-UK underground railroad, until he moved into his own place, and thanks to carpentry jobs, bought his own. Some of the fresh produce at McCall’s Organics, Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

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The process is OK,” he says. “The hardest part is the period of grief you feel afterwards. It was a really tough self-acceptance process as I have always been seen as this big business guy. Now I feel like I have failed, but what I have realised is it is not the end of the world – after 12 months my life will return.”

Basing my messages on the latest Government advice, I prepared my clients for the changes that might happen and how we would navigate this to continue to work together.

Having an online and social media presence seemed to be increasingly important for any business. Online sessions have made it possible to work with people nationwide and social media is a great platform to reach more potential clients.

As the only binding international agreement dedicated to safeguarding, conserving and exchanging the genetic diversity of the plants that we farm and eat around the world, the International Treaty has an increasingly important role in our interdependent and changing world. I was immediately pro-active with my clients. Keeping my clients informed about their counselling sessions through these changing times was important.They came to do a job and they were happy to do it. It wasn’t like in the days of slavery when they were forced to go to a place to do a job. They wanted to come and they wanted to help the mother country in their hour of need,” said Howard. With the climate crisis affecting global precipitation patterns and temperatures, certain varieties of crops are no longer growing well in places where they once thrived. For example, just a few years ago, perhaps not many people would have predicted that maize would become difficult to grow in some parts of Africa. Yet, farmers in these areas are now searching for other crops, like millets, that are more suitable to the reduced rainfall.