A Christmas baby at Workhouse!!

If you read this blog pre Christmas you will have known that our New Business Manager Steven and his partner Sarah were expecting their first baby at any moment. We were all on tenterhooks expecting good news at any minute…..but as we broke up for the holiday, and baby was two weeks overdue, there was still no news….until  3pm on Christmas Day, as we were literally carving the turkey, pouring the champagne and listening to The Queen, I received the following text….

“Hi Mark, Sophie Carlin, 7lb 5oz was born at 8.47am this morning, Sarah and baby Sophie are doing great”

How fantastic is that. A Christmas baby! Everybody at Workhouse is delighted for Steven and Sarah and their brand new baby daughter, surely their best Christmas ever. Congratulations to you both and welcome to baby Sophie!

And as we all crunched through the ice and into work yesterday we had another celebration, as designer James Hogg who pre Christmas went on holiday to Brazil with his girlfriend, announced that he had  come back with a fiancee! Whilst on holiday in sunny Rio, he popped the question to his Brazilian, model, girlfriend Debra who, unfortunately for the rest of the male population, agreed to marry the Liverpool fan from Southport! Congratulations James and Debra.

Pics of baby  here soon… pic of beach babes below!

James and Debra in Brazil

All smiles in Brazil

Champion experts

After sitting as a panel member in a successful series of seminars hosted by Champion Accountants, Maria Moriarty was asked to appear in their Summer Newsletter “Ask the experts” feature.

Champion Accountants ran the series of 5 seminars local to each of their 5 branches in Manchester, Southport, Preston, Chester and Blackpool. The seminars were named “Managing the storm” and were an informal question time style format where the audience were able to ask topical questions and advise of the panel experts.

Maria delivered her marketing expertise at both the Preston and Blackpool seminars and was then asked to write a small piece for the Summer Newsletter on surviving the downturn alongside Sharon Rathmill – Champion’s Group Head of HR, Dave Wood – Director at Champion, and Rosalind Hilton – Insolvency Practitioner for Adcroft Hilton Insolvency Specialists.

The newsletter is distributed to all of Champion’s clients and also features helpful information on managing your business finances, Tax news, and IT advise as well as news about many of the people at Champion.