Every year we produce tee shirts which we give away at networking events, to clients and friends. It is a great way to market the company, particularly if the shirt is something more than a big business card. We try to give ours a little style and desirability to it. This year we have gone for what one of the designers called “Techno-surf”.

Anyway, we like designing tee shirts. It demonstrates our graphic skills and allows us a little freedom in terms of design, what we do and why we do it. It also generates a bit of work in the form of tee shirt designs for clients.

It has to be said that every year we get people asking us if they can have one. Last year we had to stop because it was costing us a fortune. This year if you like the tee shirt then let us know. If you are a client have one or more with our compliments. If you are a friend then you can probably have one if you pester us enough. If you are a relative, wait until Birthday, Christmas, Passover, Ramadan, etc. If you are anyone else we can sell one to you at about £15.

All tee shirts have been made by our wonderful clients and friends Squat Orange If you don’t want one of our tee shirts, you will want one of theirs!

Another year and the best time to put new plans into place. Certainly the amount of free money available through government grants seems to be in plentiful supply. Of course, being in the middle of the flood zone, and as one of very few Business Link accredited web and graphics design firms in the county, we have been able to open up these funding streams for local firms to get them going again after the summer deluge.

Creative Thing are an accredited supplier of graphic and web design services through Business Link. While this is an independent endorsement of our skills, value for money and effectiveness, it also allows us to introduce government funding of up to 50% for many client projects. We have secured funding for web projects, marketing and graphic design based activity in the past. Right now any firm affected by the recent flooding can claim an award of £2500 for projects to help regain their  momentum and all other matched funds remain unaffected.

For further information, contact: David Yates on 0845 388 0338

Seasons Greetings, we hope you have a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. While we are at it, we want to share a website with you that helps feed the world’s hungry. A free daily click at www.TheHungerSite.com funds food paid for by site advertisers.

So instead of a Christmas card, we thought we would ask all our clients, friends and contacts to visit The Hunger Site and click on the big orange button entitled Click Here to Give - It’s FREE!

You might think about bookmarking the site and clicking on the link every day over the next year. This would provide the world’s hungry with over 400 cups of rice by this time next year, because each click automatically provides 1.1 cups of food to the hungry in the third world. This will not cost you anything, it is all done through the support of advertisers on The Hunger Site.

Many thanks and Happy Christmas,

Creative Thing