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PRGN........

The SPA Way has been accepted as the UK hub for the PRGN (Public Relations Global Network) a worldwide affiliation of agencies in over 40 countries.  This is great news and means we now have a family of fellow PR professionals all over the world that we can consult with and share business with.  The first meeting I attended in Boston was very welcoming to the agency.  It was a fabulous weekend spent in the company of like-minded people in a great city. 

Once the work was over Sunday was free and I took a cab ride to Harvard which was 20 minutes away.  I saw a hint of the fall with the maples trees just starting to turn vivid red in the shadows of the august halls of academia at the famous university.  The town was dotted with the white clapboard, pointy steepled churches you see on films and when I put my head round the door of one I was greeted with the scene of the annual dog blessing ceremony – Nellie eat your heart out!

WELL DONE, WELL DONE, WELL DONE......!

Team SPA - 4 on the Great North Run and Suzanne in her 10k in Essex all did brilliantly.  The times for the northern team were as follows: Chazzer ("I beat Olympian Chris Akabussi") Pearson - 1 hour 54.48; Charlotte (in training for the 2008 NY Marathon) - 2 hours 01.39; and love birds Henry and Alex were a second apart (go girl-power go!) on 2 hours 07.43 and 2 hours 07.42 respectively.  Pictures to follow.  Total of monies raised also to follow.

GOOD LUCK TEAM SPA – GREAT NORTH RUN

Charlotte, Henry, Alex and his lordship, Charlie Pearson, are all doing the Great North Run on Sunday. I should have been with you but Boston called!  Raising money for the company charity in 2008 – NSPCC and for personal charities, we wish you a great race.  Bring back lots of pictures for the blog.

FABULOUS NEW BUSINESS WIN………………..

We are sooooo thrilled to have won Duchy Originals.  Great people, great concept, great products – what more could we wish for in a client!

WELL DONE CHARLOTTE....

Entirely by her own efforts she has gone out and won her first piece of new business – Greycoat Placements – who provide domestic staff, such as nannies, butlers, housekeepers, etc for private households.  We are going to promote gift vouchers where you can buy a butler for a day, a week, a life – we wish!!  Pretty, bloody brilliant –

Charlotte

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MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING

The chocolate fest that was our effort to support the Macmillan Charity Coffee morning last Friday netted £101.41.  The choice of delicious cakes and cookies ranged from brownies with big chocolate chunks, flapjacks dripping in chocolate, chocolate cake swathed in chocolate icing and cornflake clusters made with mars bars – all wickedly wonderful.  Who would have guessed what Nigellas lurked in our team!!  For a £1 a go we could have quite happily gobbled the lot but instead took what remained around our neighbours and met some very nice people.  Including the landscape architects next door, the architects over the road, the boys who the own the Garrison and Village East, the staff and customers at Daniel Cobb and the lovely team at Kurt Geiger.  Plus, of course, our friends at the garage and especially Pat who paid handsomely for his chunk of chocolate!

THANK YOU EVERYONE.