Carlisle Support Services Launches Free Martyn’s Law Self-Assessment Tool to Strengthen Readiness and Compliance
Carlisle Support Services has launched a vital new interactive self-assessment tool to support organisations across the UK in meeting the requirements of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, commonly known as Martyn’s Law. The free Martyn’s Law Scorecard is designed to help businesses and public venues assess whether they are in-scope and their level […]
400,000 Fans, Three Days, Zero Chaos! Carlisle Support Services Anchors Merseyrail’s Network with Utmost Precision and Care
When Everton FC’s new Hill Dickinson Stadium proudly opened for the 2025/2026 Premiership season, Sandhills Station instantly transformed into a high-pressure gateway. Over 400,000 fans have already surged through the doors, testing the network’s limits. Protecting these massive crowds while maintaining seamless transit, Carlisle Support Services ensure absolute care and meticulous operational precision at every […]
Standing Tall with In-House Integrity and the New Benchmark Unfolded at the Home of Jump Racing
The ground vibrates as a physical manifestation of 65,000 heartbeats synchronising with the thundering hooves of forty thoroughbreds charging toward the first flight at Cheltenham racecourse in March 2026. At the center of these voices stood over 150 security officers on ground, an army of care deployed to guard the very soul of the Cheltenham […]
Innovation Lab 2026 Highlights the Power of Innovation in Modern FM and Security
More than 700 senior leaders from across the UK’s security, facilities management, and other support services sectors gathered on 5 March in Liverpool for Carlisle Support Services’ Innovation Lab 2026, a leading industry forum designed to spark new thinking around service delivery, safety and operational excellence. Hosted at ACC Liverpool, the event brought together over […]
Rethinking Innovation: Why Carlisle’s Innovation Lab Begins on the Frontline
At 3:00 AM, innovation looks quite different: It showcases some practical realities of innovation in security and FM spaces. Our industry does not lack ideas; what it lacks are the conditions for ideas to survive. Across the UK support services sector, innovation too often fails not because the technology implemented is wrong, but because the […]
Carlisle donates £15,000 Apprenticeship Levy to Homeless Link to Support the Fight Against Homelessness
Across the UK, homelessness continues to rise at a worrying pace. According to the Office for National Statistics, around 140,000 households were living in temporary accommodation across Great Britain as of March 2024, which is the highest level recorded. In England alone, 117,400 households were placed in temporary accommodation, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%, with […]
Adrian White’s Leadership Setting High Standards for Modern Resilience and Human Depth Behind High Performing Teams at Carlisle
Adrian White grew up between two very different worlds. He remembers being the academically driven child living in the posher end of town, part of a comfortable family that seemed pretty set for life. Then life cracked open; his parents separated, his father suffered a life changing accident, and the family home was lost. One […]
Re-Shaping Hard FM Standards Across the UK Rail Network
When most people think of Carlisle, they picture excellence in cleaning – teams working with care, precision and pride across stations, platforms, and carriages. Yet behind the scenes, another story has been quietly taking shape – one that is now reshaping Carlisle’s capabilities and future direction.It is the story of our move into Hard Facilities […]
Carlisle Celebrates White Ribbon Day as a Pledge to Build Safer Workplaces and Communities
There is a quiet stir across Carlisle, a subtle shift that cannot be measured by buildings, uniforms, or schedules, but lives in the people who inhabit them. It is in the glance of a colleague who notices when a joke lands too sharply, the pause of a manager choosing honesty over convenience, the small, deliberate […]
Three Hundred Staff Members, One Leader and a Stadium That Feels More Like a Home Than a Workplace
For over three decades, Luigi Simeone – also known as Lui – has built a career grounded in care, trust, and people-first leadership as Operations Manager at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with Carlisle. Known affectionately as the ‘uncle’ or ‘dad’ of the stadium staff, Luigi is regarded by his colleagues as irreplaceable – a steady hand […]