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.

Training Printers to use the Unibind Machine

Today we printed 12 copies of a tractor user manual. The customer then telephoned us to ask if we could bind each copy together without putting holes in them. This sounded like an ideal job for the unibind machine. Janet and Peter had not used the machine before so Mel showed them how to operate it. The end result looked great. The customer was very pleased, he said "They look splendid".  

We have a new Ringbinder

Our old ringbinder was getting difficult to use and as we were having more customers wanting ringbinding we have bought a new machine. Although the new one looks very similar it is far easier to use, as the cutting mechanism is electric which makes it more Printer friendly. Today Chris and Elliott are ringbinding 85 prospectuses for Burwell Village College.

Waitrose Cheque Presentation

Yesterday Janet, Alex, Vaughan and Mel went to Cambridge. The visit had two purposes.

Firstly, as a result of Sarah Bevan nominating Burwell Print we were one of the organisations that Waitrose in Fitzroy Street collected for. We met with the store manager who presented us with a cheque for £125.00. A big thank you Waitrose and their customers.

We then went to Rowan's private view of their Photography Exhibition. Several of  Rowan's students have been doing a photography course and the exhibition was the result of weeks of learning and experimenting with photography. We printed the photographs at the Print Centre so it was great to see them on the wall in the Rowan gallery. Janet thought the exhibition was "very good and great to look around Rowan's studios".