Last day of November today! If you’ve read this blog before you may well know, or have guessed, that I’m pretty new to this blogging lark. However, I’ve been doing it now for the whole month, so I though I’d check out the stats and have a look at which posts have been the most read. Insight into marketing? Incisive comment, acerbic wit, pinpoint analysis? Not a bit of it. All the posts featuring the Ribchester Calendar Girls are top of the list!.
To cut a long story short, last Feb, two residents of Ribcheter, Janis Whitlock and Billy Sharples, came in to Workhouse Marketing, to see if we’d help them with an idea. They’d both lost close family to cancer and wanted to do something to help raise money for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation, which helps care for patients with cancer.
Aware that we’d just opened a brand new photography studio, they wanted to know if we’d help them do a ‘Calendar Girls’. They’d already got CPL Design and Print to print it, so it was pretty much a ‘no brainer’ for us. My mum died of cancer and a few years ago a popular member of our staff, Julia Procter, also died of cancer so we were very keen to support the Ribchester girls.
In July we did the photography at Workhouse Studios. Over a weekend, Andrew Woodhouse, Workhouse Studios in house photographer, took the pictures and Debbie Fish, the excellent stylist from Live Ribble Valley, gave up their time and took an amazing set of photos. The girls (or ladies of a certain age!) were magnificent. Really nervous but with a glass of wine or two really got into the swing of it. The result is an excellent, tasteful and stylish calendar fit to grace any family home.
We printed 1000 copies and as we go into December, I think we only have 250 left. Now every Christmas we all have people who we have to spend about £7 or £8 on a present for Christmas, and we probably struggle with what to buy them. In the end we might plump for a box of chocolates, or a bottle of something, or some kind of novelty item that raises a laugh for about 5 minutes then just clutters up your house. This year don’t waste your money on stuff that nobody wants, why not buy a Ribchester Calendar Girls 2010 calendar for just £7.50 and do a bit of good. You can purchase them on eBay via Paypal on the following link…
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260501056431#ht_500wt_1182
Or you can just send a cheque to me, Mark Jones, at Workhouse Marketing, Blackburn Road, Ribchester, Preston PR3 3ZQ. To whet your appetite here’s some pics of the girls during the shooting of the calendar…
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- Miss October with Miss Februarys balloons.
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- Miss November, Debbie Fish and flag, Andrew Woodhouse up ladder.
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- Miss November being (barely) covered with poppies
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- Six months worth of lovelies waiting for their turn!
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- Miss March with umbrella
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- Andrew likes ladders.
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