Innovation Lab 2026 Welcomes Jason Bevan to Ignite Creative Firepower and Redefine What’s Possible
At Innovation Lab 2026, Carlisle Support Services will once again convene the leaders shaping the future of Security, Cleaning, Facilities Management (FM), and other support services, setting the stage for a day defined by ambition, accountability, and forward-thinking leadership. As the lights settle across a room of more than 700 senior leaders at ACC Liverpool […]
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 […]
Inzi Credits Carlisle for His Career Journey, Growth and Progression
At the end of a long twelve-hour shift, when the corridors finally quieten and the adrenaline fades, there are moments when reflection becomes unavoidable. For Inzamam Ullah, known to many as Inzi, those moments came quite early in life. Still barely out of his teens, he found himself questioning not just his job, but his […]
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 […]
Mohsin Khan, SFEs Security Officer of the Year
Security Officer Mohsin Khan, from our Southwark Council and IQ Student Living contracts, was awarded the prestigious Security Officer of the Year award at The Security & Fire Awards for Excellence (SFE) on Monday, 1st December 2025. As the second year that this category has existed, we are overjoyed that Mohsin has carried the torch […]
Dorothy Omovbude: Lifesaver of the Year
On Thursday, 28th November, the 2025 Rail Staff Awards took place for their 18th year. Starting in 2007, the event is an annual awards evening that brings together Rail Industry staff from the frontline, to executives, to celebrate collective achievements. As an opportunity to celebrate anyone from drivers, cleaners, station staff, project organisers and more, […]
Celebrating our Security & Fire Awards for Excellence finalists
It is almost the night of The Security & Fire Awards for Excellence, where we have been nominated across five notable categories. Firstly, as finalists within the Industry Choice Security Guarding Company and Security Guarding Company of the Year over £35m, these notable nominations evidence the work behind the scenes of our support teams to […]
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 […]