AND FINALLY Norbord supports local weaving
company with memorable donation Norbord has plaid a blinder by assisting in the creation of an innovative weavers’ display. The company is supporting Prickly Thistle, a local tartan weaving start-up, by donating locally manufactured wood panelling to assist in the creation of an innovative display housed within a pop-up mill.
The Evanton business currently operates the only tartan-weaving mill in the mainland Highland region of Scotland.
Prickly Thistle has created an upcycled memory box at its pop-up mill to showcase its tartan designs and unique story to visitors from across the world. Following a successful
Kickstarter campaign which will
Elliotts to Cycle Across France for Local Children’s Hospice
see it open its own mill off the North coast on Black Isle, Prickly Thistle made its ‘Black Box’ design feature inside a former oil and gas shipping container that had been repurposed for the site. Everything in the feature is made entirely with natural, locally-sourced, recycled and environmentally-friendly aesthetics, including twenty 9mm boards from Norbord.
DULUX ACADEMY LAUNCHES ULTIMATE
WALLPAPERING CHALLENGE In celebration of International Wallpaper Week (7th-13th October), Dulux Academy is calling on decorators with design flair and a keen eye for detail to create their very own wallpaper before putting their application skills to the test. Running for the third consecutive year, the Dulux Academy Design and Decorate
Challenge gives lucky entrants a chance of seeing their design become a reality with the winner receiving bespoke rolls of their paper created by Graham & Brown - as well as enjoying a personal guided factory and design studio tour at the firm’s headquarters in Lancashire. To take part entrants need to get creative and then post their design, on a one metre length standard 1200 grade lining paper, to Dulux Academy compete with a short description explaining the inspiration behind their idea.
Shortlisted finalists will see their designs shared for public vote on www.
duluxacademy.online which will account for 50%of the design mark.
A team of 11 from Elliotts Builders Merchant, the south’s leading independent supplier of building products for the trade and public, is getting ready to tackle a 640-mile cycle ride across France to raise money for Naomi’s House and Jacksplace. The team are hoping to raise £10,000 for charity, with half of the money raised going to Elliotts staff-nominated Charity of the Year, Naomi’s House and Jacksplace. The other half of this will go to charities nominated by event organisers, Challenge Adventure Charities (Cancer Research UK and The British Heart Foundation).
“The team has done some tough training rides across
Hampshire over the last few months in preparation for the challenge”, says first time rider and Southampton Assistant Branch Manager, Dan Coombes. “But the thought of raising money for a local cause has kept us motivated and now we’re all looking forward to getting over to France!”k
Fil money raising celebration
AN East Yorkshire storage specialist has raised more than £15,000 for good causes to celebrate its 25th year in business.
Fil – formerly known as Filplastic – based near Howden, raised the money over the course of its 25th anniversary year and divided the proceedings between a number of local charities.
The figure outstrips the target the business set of raising £12,000 across the 12 months when it embarked upon the charitable push last year.
It achieved the sum by
empowering staff to do whatever they wanted to raise the money, including individual challenges, hosting events and creating things to sell.
Tobermore joins Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
Paving and walling manufacturer Tobermore have raised £683.68 for people living with cancer by hosting an event as part of Macmillan Cancer Support’s World Biggest Coffee Morning.
The event was held on Friday 27th September at Tobermore Head Office in Tobermore. Staff baked a range of tasty
50
cakes and buns for all to enjoy. Tobermore general manager, Glenn Robinson said, “We are so pleased to have raised such a great amount for Macmillan Cancer Support. Every donation can make such a difference to people living with cancer. I want to thank everyone who came and made it such a success.“
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Paul Taylor, managing director of Fil, said the whole business had risen to the challenge. “Celebrating 25 years in business is significant and I wanted to mark it in a meaningful way. “The staff really took the idea on board and ran with it. There was lots of energy and enthusiasm, we’ve had race nights, coffee mornings, sporting events and all sorts of other activities.”
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