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The purpose of this paper is to compare a group of service users with mental health problems with a community comparison group of gym attenders.

Cross-sectional questionnaire surveys were conducted at a large gym (n = 181) and two community mental health facilities (n = 127) in the Greater Manchester area using a convenience sample approach. All participants completed the PERMA Scale, a measure of flourishing.

Gym attenders scored significantly higher on the five elements of PERMA. Their physical health ratings were almost double. They also had significantly lower levels of negative emotions and loneliness and higher levels of overall happiness.

This study only considered levels of flourishing. Previous studies of quality of life have shown similar disparities between people with mental health problems and others.

Professor Seligman has claimed that improving levels of flourishing is the main aim of positive psychology. The present study suggests this may be especially challenging for people with mental health problems.

The concept of flourishing could provide a more positive non-medical focus for mental health services, in the development of what some have called positive psychiatry. This complements the current recovery model.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to compare flourishing levels between individuals with mental health problems and a community comparison group using the PERMA Scale.

This chapter will explore the impact virtual learning had on students and their social and emotional development as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors’ guiding question(s) for this chapter will be: How has social and emotional growth been considered as part of the missing piece to virtual learning? How are social and emotional learning opportunities addressed to achieve maximum student success and development as future leaders in a global society? What lessons have been learned during the pandemic regarding virtual teaching that can help develop more robust curriculum/learning choices for supporting students’ social and emotional well-being? Using research on digital learning and student and teacher interviews, the authors will gather data to report on the positives and opportunities for growth from the impact of the pandemic and virtual learning. The authors discuss implications of this work.

Additional to the existing programme of Cox Mixers a new range of economic paste mixing machines has been developed with the following features:—

KEK Ltd., Hurdsfield Industrial Estate, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2ND, announce an extension to their cryogenic grinding facility with the installation of a 2000 litre nitrogen tank (approximately 3 times the size of the previous facility).

Ateliers Sussmeyer has introduced a continuous solvent recovery unit which is reliable and economic in operation.

Most chemical pumps on the market today were designed 20 to 30 years ago, in the days of shaft sealing by gland packing. Their characteristics include small diameter shafts, with the packing acting as a third bearing to support the overhang; high pressure in the seal chamber; and excessive shaft end‐play.

Jenag Equipment Ltd., 17 Aston Road, Waterlooville, Hants PO7 7XG, specialists in the design and manufacture of automatic backwashing liquid strainer systems for the process industries, has concluded an agreement with Rio Beer Maschinefabrik AG of Niederwil, Switzerland, to market its complete range of industrial washing plant exclusively throughout the UK.

Of direct interest to readers of this journal, is a vibrational processing unit for laboratories which lends itself to scaling‐up. Basically, the unit is centred on the Megapact vibrational ball mill, which consists of two tubular, stainless steel chambers, oscillated at 2,800 cycles/min. Product to be processed is pumped through the oscillating chambers, to be subjected to hundreds of thousands of impacts, taken into a receiving tank and re‐circulated until such time as required to achieve the end‐product quality.

Six months prior to its closure, Tyne and Wear Development Corporation, a government agency, appointed a records management professional to assist in the disposal of its records. This article documents the challenges the project presented and the procedures which were implemented to ensure appropriate actions were taken. It concludes with a summary of the issues which arose during the project and their implications.