Passionate Blog

Football club’s goal to support disabled children

HEDNESFORD Town Football Club has shown great link-up play with shirt sponsors Five Cs Training in an all-out attack to help disabled children.

SNAP, Special Needs Adventure Playground in Cannock, which was set up by executives from 5Cs, has been adopted as an official charity of the club.

Chief executive of 5Cs and chairman of SNAP, Kevin Smith (left) is pictured with Hednesford Town's commercial manager Nick Lunn at the SNAP playground.

Advice for family friendly freelancing at Freelanceadvisor.co.uk

YOU can see a profile of Linda on a new website for freelance contractors here today.

Our first piece is on balancing the needs of earning a living with bringing up a family.

To help get the most out of your work, you have to be realistic about your prospects, how much work you can manage and how it really fits in with the rest of your life.

You can read the full piece here.

Express & Star video: Be Santa for a day to help Compton

GREAT to see this video. It looks like the team at the Star are having real fun with their videos, more fun than anyone in this office ever had on a rainy doorstep in Willenhall, that's for sure.

Hospice service to light up lives this Christmas

COMPTON Hospice is inviting people to ‘Light up a Life’ at an annual service which helps remember loved ones who are no longer with us during the festive season.

Hundreds of people have flocked to the event for the past three years, after the hospice expanded their traditional memorial service to include carols by candlelight and the chance for visitors to make a unique dedication.

The service, which is being sponsored by Birmingham Midshires building society, will be held at the main hospice site on Compton Road West on Sunday, December 7 at 3.30 pm

The free event is open to anyone who has been touched by the hospice’s work and family members or friends can dedicate a light on the hospice’s ‘tree of life’ as a tribute to someone special.

Mistaken Identity leads to 29-year loyalty

Colin Lee Opticians, currently celebrating its 30th birthday, has thanked its longest serving patients – who came across their practice by mistake 29 years ago and have been coming back ever since.

When Eric Dixon first visited Colin Lee in Stone Cross, West Bromwich, in 1979 he had been recommended by his brother – but only realised later that he had meant a different opticians.

But he liked the practice so much – impressed by the ‘feel’ of a family business – that he and his wife Mary have been going ever since.

Accountancy firm awarded for helping businesses prosper

A STAFFORDSHIRE accountancy firm has boosted its bottom line by scooping a national award for its innovation in helping customers prosper.

Accountancy 4 Growth, based in Cannock, has been named 2008 Entrepreneurial Firm of the Year by the prestigious Probiz network, made up of 200 accountancy firms across the UK. The Probiz network is viewed as one of the most respected of its type in the UK.

The award is for being the best in using new ways to help firms across the whole of their business, as well as financial management.

“This is recognition for being the most innovative within a very innovative part of the profession,” said managing director of Accountancy 4 Growth, Ian Beech.

Work in progress

THIS blog is a work in progress and is currently being redesigned.
If you want to know where our work has been featured recently, then we can tell you that we have had pieces in the Guardian online and Take a Break. Clients have featured on Central News twice in the last couple of weeks, as well as on BBC Online, local radio, on the front page of the Express & Star twice, as well as other local papers.
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