November Blues

Well done to all members of the blue team who were the winning team for November. Tokens are awarded for when a Printer does something beyond what is expected or something out of the ordinary.

Children in Need

On Friday some of us came to work in our pyjamas to raise money for Children in Need.We looked like our alarm clocks had not gone off and we had rolled straight out of bed and into work!

We raised £47.87.

Celebrate Social Enterprise Day 17th November

Celebrate Social Enterprise Day 17^th November

(all year long!!)

There are many Social Training Enterprises in Cambridgeshire providing quality supported work experience and training placements for people with disabilities in a real work environment.

At the Print Centre we have a broad range of customers who buy our services and products. I would like to say thank you for your continued support and for all the ‘informal’ marketing you do for us - with your help  our customer base continues to grow.

Please tell a friend about the other similar organisations in Cambridgeshire to celebrate Social Enterprise Day.

There is a STEnG (Social Training Enterprise Group) website

www.steng.org.uk.

Also, Gill Riley, the Development Officer can be contacted on 07903192102.

Stuffing for Christmas

At the end of last week we had "all hands to the pumps" to complete an order with a tight deadline for a Cambridge based charity. We creased, folded and rolled 1,550 greetings cards then put the individual cards with envelopes into in plastic display wallets.

This morning Adelè has been going through our new price list with a group of Printers. we had a quiz to see who knew how much different types of printing cost and everyone enjoyed trying to find individual items in the price list.

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.