Category Other
By Nick On July 29th 2009

There is now an IoD Norfolk blog that is updated by the Norfolk branch itself.  On the blog you can find photos and a write up of past events, details of upcoming events and other relevant and interesting information.

Farrows put together the blog for the IoD.

To check it out, go to www.iodnorfolk.com

Category Charity
By Sarah On July 7th 2009

We visited this years Royal Norfolk Show to check out the trailer and banners graphics that we designed for the Big C Cancer Charity. They were at the show to promote awareness of the charity and to raise money for all areas of support and care for cancer sufferers and their families.

The Big C's new graphics looked great and we were very pleased with the final result. For more information about Big C please visit www.thebigcappeal.co.uk

Category Social
By Will F On July 7th 2009

We recently attended the Royal Warrant Holders Association Shoot at Holland & Holland.  The day can get quite competitive and often we see ourselves desperately close to being the losers...

This year however we did alright and were quite comfortably above the losers.  As part of the day, the flurries at the end included a remote controlled plane known as a 'Gnat' which you had several opportunities to hit and try and to take down. Many tried and a couple succeeded, one of which was us!  Something we were pretty proud of!

Overall a great day...next up Brimslade!

Category Social
By Will F On July 1st 2009

We entered a team into the Royal Warrant Holder Football Tournament again this year hoping for slightly more success than our last year's efforts.  Feeling a bit more prepared and aware of the standard we headed bright and early to London for the morning league section. 

We were keen to finish in the top two of the league and started off well with a good win against Louis Roederer.

Following on from that we had two further games against E V Bullen and Fairhurst Ward Abbots both of which we should have won but ended in 0-0 draws.  Scoring was looking like being our problem yet again like the past year.  Anyway 5 points was enough to get us through to the 2nd Round in second place.

Our 2nd Round Knock Out game was against Shepherd Neame who had won their league.  It was quite a tough game and again one we probably should have won, however 0-0 it was again but this time penalties would decide it... Penalties were tense but we got a break through thanks to some great goal keeping and good finishing.

We then faced a quarter final clash with last years tournament winners, DHL.  We battled well but ended up being beaten to a team who looked to be heading for the final... However Cranegates had different ideas and beat DHL in the semis to set up a final with Mayfair Cleaning Company.  A heated final ended with Mayfair getting a well deserved win and the trophy.

Hopefully we will further ourselves again next year....