Burwell's Best Kept Secret

 Tina's Window - Once again we are using Tina’s shop window to promote and display our products and services and to tell people about one of Burwell’s best kept secrets – US!

Recent fundraising – thank you Chris, Geoff, Julie and Keith for shaking buckets at the last Fordham Car Boot  Sale of 2011 and raising nearly £120.

 

Thinking of Jim

Jim Wilcox June 1949 to April 2010

On Saturday we had a get together of family, friends and work colleagues of Jim Wilcox, one of our Support Workers who sadly died last year.  We wanted to have something in the Print Centre to remind us of him so we commissioned Rowan Humberstone, another Social Training Enterprise, to produce this beautiful plaque – now on the wall in our entranceway. The plaque weaves together the fact that he was a family man, that he offered a helping hand when he could, his love and vast knowledge of music, his (competitive) passion for fishing and the fact that he worked with us at the Print Centre and that he was previously a fireman. 

2 sides to the Open day

On Wednesday the 14th of September we had our Open day at the Print Centre. The day was a mixture of fun things and serious business! On the fun side we had a great BBQ and a raffle which raised £56 for the Printers' account. Then we had the serious business of presentations of the Printers' certificates for all their hard work. David Martin, one of our Trustees, then let everybody know what had happened throughout the year and presented our Annual Report.

Booty from the Booters

 The car boot sale held in Fordham invites charities to come and collect at the entrance of the sale.
Last Sunday a group of volunteers and staff from Burwell Print got up at the crack of dawn to collect at the car boot sale. People were very generous and we collected the grand total of £565.74. We wore our Burwell Print t-shirts to promote what we do and several people stopped to chat to us about printing. Definitely worth missing a Sunday lie-in!

Thinking outside of the Tapas Box!

A longstanding customer of the Print Centre asked us if we could produce some display boxes for his Tapas Mussels that he was launching in the UK. While it isn't a job we have ever done before, we like to always have a "can do" attitude and after a little bit of planning and design we set about producing 100 display boxes.

The customer is extremely happy with the end result and we feel we have learnt something new along the way.

Chris O'Neill

Burwell Carnival 2011

We entered a float in this years carnival, this years theme was wonders of the universe. The float was decorated with a picture of earth painted on each side, we all wore hats with stars on and t-shirts with planets on them, and Steven dressed up as a spaceman.


We all enjoyed the ride around the village waving at the people who lined the route.

We were really pleased when we were awarded the trophy for the best adult float in the parade.

After the parade ended we helped out on a stall selling raffle tickets.

Work experience students welcomed at Burwell Print

This year we are once again welcoming and supporting students from local schools to gain some work experience with us.

For the next couple of weeks we have Ben from Soham Village College and Matt from the Kings School, Ely.