It’s been a happy week at the Workhouse!

What with Grahams wedding, Nicky meeting the Duke of Kent, and the sun shining it’s been a happy week at the Workhouse! It’s been incredibly busy, Campo’s been doing some great work on Stax Trade Centres World Cup promotion which includes scratch cards, a giant spot the ball competition and an online fantasy football game which you can join here…. http://staxfantasyfootball.co.uk/

We’ve been doing a load of work for Lancashire Police Authority and received this nice testimonial from them recently….

I just wanted to say that  I am extremely impressed both with the quality of the work to date and the support, information and sunny dispositions that you have.  Please also pass on my thanks to both Jamie and Graham who have excelled themselves design wise and Graham in being such a good sport about donning the Bond suit!

We also got a good testimonial fom Andrew Graham for the work we’ve been doing on Youth Zone…”

Nicky, the marketing was outstanding”!

Well done to all the guys here who work on the Youth Zone project.

It’s been great to see James Warburton in the building this week as Heidi and Jamie help him with his new venture, and it’s very pleasing to be working on some nice stuff for Crown Paints with Steven and James which we presented yesterday. We’re getting excited about  The Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board Tourism Awards which is happening on Weds… we are sponsoring the Small Visitor attraction of the Year Award. Heidi, Nicky and Steven are going along to the awards to support our client (definitely not for the nice big slap up lunch)

And we’ve been busy on loads of other clients too, and met some potential new clients. Good to catch up with Rob Carder at Mid Pennine Arts, who created the fabulous Panopticons which I blogged about last week.

I go on my summer hols on Wednesday, a cruise round the Med (Nita no longer does aeroplanes!), sailing from Southampton on the new P&O liner Azura which was launched in April. Looking forward to stopping at Venice, Gibraltar, Dubrovnik, Split, Malaga and two places in Greece.

It’s a nice feeling to go off on hols knowing that we have a happy business, a growing business, and a successful business. Just hope it’s like that when I get back!!

Mark

Today Workhouse Marketing meets Royalty! (well, Nicky did)

If you’ve read this blog before you might be aware that Workhouse is helping out with a really important project which will help the young people of Blackburn. It’s called Youth Zone. Today, The Duke of Kent was in Blackburn and the team behind Youth Zone led by Andrew Graham of Graham and Brown met him and explained all about Youth Zone. Our own Youth Zone ‘hero’ Nicky Jepson also met the Duke and here are some pics…

Duke of Kent…and Nicky

Duke of Kent, Andrew Graham….and Nicky peering over shoulder.

Duke of Kent, Andrew Graham….and back of Nicky’s head

Here’s how it was reported in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph….

In a visit to the town HRH the Duke of Kent was given a presentation on the new £5million Youth Zone, which is set to be built in the town centre next year. Graham Burgess, Blackburn with Darwen Council chief executive, said: “We have shown him the fact that regeneration and cohesion is key to our future and we are proud of what is going on here.

“He said that he wants other members of his family to come here and see what is being done.”

Youngsters who are helping develop the new Blackburn Youth Zone spoke to the Duke about the project, which is to be built off Jubilee Street. The scheme, based on the highly successful Bolton Lads and Girls Club, will see a huge new facility created for hundreds of youngsters to get involved in a huge range of activities. There will even be a football pitch built on the roof.

Andrew Graham, the chairman of the scheme, said: “We told the Duke that this project can bring the community together. It could be completely life changing because it would give children somewhere to go and something to do that they really want to do.”

Dec Elliot, 16, of Roe Lee, spoke to the royal. He said: “I cannot wait for it to open. It will make a massive difference to Blackburn. We are all really excited.”