Category Business
By Will F On July 11th 2008

We were asked to photograph the Thames Barge Race for The Company Watermen and Lightermen last Saturday.

The Thames Barge Race is a race in which teams row the old style barges along the Thames from Greenwich to Westminster Bridge. The race is like taking a trip back in time, as this method of rowing barges, is the way the Watermen would have traditionally worked on the Thames. 

This year the weather was good, possibly a bit too hot, as there was a strong wind and a difficult tide.

The winners completed the race in just under two hours; a pretty good feat, watching the race you realise that rowing a steel barge is seriously hard work.

All in all it was a very interesting day.

Category Social
By Will F On June 27th 2008

On Wednesday, Nick, Heather and I attended the Clay Pigeon shoot at Holland & Holland for the Royal Warrant Holders Association.

We were in a team with David Wilkinson from Wilkinson PLC and Sally Stubbs from Barclays.

There was a team competition and also an individual competition. We didn't win, and more importantly we didn't come last either, which was a relief...

The highest amateur score was 43 out of 48 for individuals, David was the highest in our team with 27.

After shooting, we had a nice hog roast lunch and headed back to Norwich.

Thanks to those at the RWHA for organising another great event and Holland & Holland for hosting it.

Category Charity
By Sarah On June 19th 2008

Nick and I attended the Business in the Community Awards Gala Dinner on Tuesday night. We were asked to enter the Mills & Reeve Pro Bono Company of the Year award, to celebrate our charity work.

Philip Jepson gave a speech at the dinner about Norfolk Venda, which was well received and will hopefully help to further enhance the charity's fund raising potential.

It was an enjoyable evening, made even more enjoyable by the fact we won the award for our charity work with 'The Norfolk Venda Educational Project' and 'The Big C'.

Photos of the event (below) are by Pictures365 and are available to buy here

Category Charity
By Will F On June 9th 2008

After weeks of training, finally our big day came on Saturday; the RWHA 5-A-side Cup held at Kensington Palace. Repping Norwich in the team’s away kit, we started out in a mini league with Owen Brown, Fortnum & Mason and Fairhurst Ward Abbotts.

Our first match was against Fortnum & Mason. It was a tough encounter to say the least but we overcame our nerves to win 1-0 with a tidy finish from Will Pointer. Next up was Owen Brown, a match we dominated but failed to score; the match finished 0-0. Our final game was FWA, a match we wanted to win to finish top of the league. This match was pretty even with both teams having a couple of good chances and Neil Bedford making some vital saves. FWA, however, slotted one home resulting in a loss and us having to go into a play-off against Fortnum & Mason for second place. In the play-off we played well but Fortnum & Mason broke through and scored. From then on we piled on the pressure and got one back through Matt Taylor with an emphatic finish. We continued to push for the winner but ran out of time.... penalties it was. All was even until I stepped up third and hit the post. Fortnum & Mason continued scoring and were a goal up with the final penalties to be taken. Will Pointer bravely stepped up and put the ball wide, putting Fortnum and Mason through into the Prince William Cup and us feeling upbeat about our chances in the Prince Henry knockout.

We were put up against Tiptree in the knockout for a place in the quarters. Tiptree being a team we really wanted to beat having received rallying phone calls prior to the competition. We stepped out feeling hydrated thanks to the copious amounts of Gatorade we had knocked back and took Tiptree apart with a dominant 2-0 win. Goals came from Paul Strowger who saw the goalkeeper off his line and hit a sweet first time effort, then another another followed from Matt Taylor. This put us through and up against Champagne Louis Roederer.

The quarter final was a tough encounter, both teams very much trying to pass it and carve out an opportunity. Champagne scored with an unstoppable long range effort and from then on we pinned them back; Al smashed a great goal home after a maizy run into the opposing half. The game was then marred by a contentious decision (not the official’s first), in which the referee gave Champagne a penalty for a so called back pass by myself to Neil in goal. Anyway, Champagne finished it and although we pushed to equalise, they went through and we went out.

Champagne Louis Roederer went on to win the Prince Henry and DHL (UK) Ltd ran out winner of the overall competition.

A great time was had by all and we will definitely be back next year having pumped some serious iron. We would like to thank Victoria from RWHA and John Shepard from Partridges for organising the event. Thanks also go to our fans who came and cheered us on, Britvic for the Gatorade and Sam at Norwich City for loaning us the kit, at least we looked pro!

Category Business
By Sarah On May 23rd 2008

Yesterday we went to check out the display stands and media we designed for the UEA Conferences team at the B2B Exhibition held at Norwich City Football Club. 

The UEA Conferences stand looked great and we are very pleased with the way everything has turned out.