agenda Going for green


Avery Office Products is celebrating success at the prestigious Green Business Awards, the UK’s most comprehensive awards scheme for environmental business performance. Avery won the Green Champions


(customers) category for its innovative Green Office Week initiative, which encourages office workers across the UK to take practical steps to help the environment. Green Office Week, which has run


annually since 2009, offers realistic guidance on the small things we can all do to make a difference at work. Mark Williams, general manager,


Avery Office Products UK said: “Green Office Week is now well established on the calendar. It has proved successful because customers can easily replicate the various ideas in their own workplaces.” The next Green Office Week will take place between 9th and 13th May 2011. www.greenofficeweek.eu.


Clear Sailing


A guiding light


Perfect if your job means that you have to travel, or even if you just enjoy a city break now and again, these dinky little notebooks from Rose & Grey are small enough to pop in your handbag. With a combination of page layouts for


recording travel arrangements and hotel contact details, they’re the ideal place to note down your boss’s favourite Parisian restaurant so that you have all the information to hand for the next business meeting on the continent. With a choice of London, New York or Paris, the jotters even contain tube maps and rail details, although if your boss is anything like ours it might be worth noting down some local taxi numbers too!


www.roseandgrey.co.uk


Solo offshore racing sailor, Alex Thomson, is encouraging teams to get involved in a charity sailing challenge next year for West Sussex-based children’s health charity Action Medical Research. The challenge provides an ideal team-building exercise and companies are being urged to enter teams for the event to try and win the prizes on offer and raise some cash for a good cause.


In one long weekend, teams of would-be sailors, from complete landlubbers to more experienced crew mates will be trained by professionals to race 40-foot yachts round the Solent at the Isle of Wight.


The event takes place between 13th and 16th May 2011 and the money raised will help fund vital research into medical condition, which affect babies and children. Places are limited so, if you fancy some team building with a difference, make sure you register soon. For more information and to register visit www.action.org.uk/ sailing


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