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LATEST NEWS FROM STABLECROFT
Stablecroft Goes Greener
We are still keen to improve our carbon footprint and are hopeful that a site visit from a wind turbine engineer will confirm that our location is suitable for the installation of a turbine to generate most of the electricity we require to run the business in Scotland.
June 2008
Stablecroft Welcomes Customer No 600
We are thrilled to welcome customer Number 600 this month - if only all 600 customers placed orders every month we would be even happier!
June 2008
Vodka Donkey Saved from Slaughter
Vodka donkey arrived in Scotland in March 2008 and joined the Stablecroft Team. Not only was our appeal to save Vodka successful, we managed to raise enough money to bring her gallic friend, Cazaux. Cazaux is now in residence at the Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary, where he is training everyone to speak French.
Both were in an appalling condition on arrival in the UK, totally emaciated, feet over grown, covered in lice and generally very very poor. Vodka was particularly traumatised, very depressed and anxious. She has recovered physically for a large extent, but is still very 'blank' and unresponsive. Cazaux was always more resilient, and while his physical condition has a long way to go, his attitude to life is completely irrepresible - from day one he was shouting for joy and ready to go out with the lads for a night in the pub and a curry.
Cazaux enjoying his new life - he has a future in advertising!
Cazaux in transit from France, a 4 day journey - his face tells it all
Vodka at home - she will one day be a lovely donkey once she forgets her recent past.
May 2008
Stablecroft Charity Appeal - Go Vodka Crazy
Vodka is a four year old donkey who is being fattened in France, in the Loire area, for the Italian meat trade. When she is a bit fatter, she will endure a horrific journey to Italy. This will take many days, probably without food,water or rest, in a large transporter where she will be loose with other horses and ponies. Many will not survive the journey and will break legs, be trampled on, injure their eyes, fights will break out - many of the horses are in foal, or with young foals making this final journey. Vodka is destined to be made into salami, mortadella or sausages.
For £800 we can save Vodka and bring her to Stablecroft Headquarters in Scotland where she can join our team of rescue donkeys. We have to purchase her and transport her - would anyone be able to give up their Vodka shots to help save poor little Vodka - any donations large or small would be appreciated. You can see full details of her - and sadly another little donkey on www.equinesection.com - we have committed to bringing her here - could you share some of the costs? On your next night out, instead of having another round, send the money to save Vodka.
March 2008
Stablecroft Conference Products Go Green
We appreciate that the nature of the conference products business does not lend itself very well to 'going green'. We have reduced our carbon footprint by, wherever possible, having our products manufactured locally, though there are still some items which we do have to import as tjhey are not available from the UK.
We can supply our delegate badge paper inserts in re-cycled paper but it does compromise the brightness of the white paper inserts, which many customers like. There is also a more restricted palette of colours for the coloured badge inserts and again the colours are not as sharp.
So we have concentrated on using 'green fuel' where possible. We have installed a wood pellet boiler which runs our central heating - this is currently supplied by 'bought in' wood pellets but as it can burn other crops, we are investigating growing some willow as a potential fuel. We also have a log burning stove for background heating and this is powered by logs grown on our very doorstep. We are contemplating a small wind turbine as our experiments with solar power have been largely unsuccessful due to the lack of sunshine in winter. We use solar power for some of our outdoor lighting for our warehouse and will continue to experiment with it to see if it is viable in other uses.
December 2007
Christmas Greetings from Stablecroft
The Stablecroft team of donkeys - Ferguson and Aimee - posed very sweetly for the 2007 Christmas card - they are braving the Scottish weather though some days their preference would be to stay in their donkey domaine and not venture out into the frozen wilds.
December 2007
Stablecroft in Lapland In Time for Christmas
We almost couldn't quite believe it when we received our first order for Lapland, in early December 2007. We have despatched Rudolph with his sleigh and our conference name badge carrying cases and hope he has a safe journey.
December 2007
Stablecroft Christmas Offers
Finding Christmas is already getting you down - all those cards to send out - can we help? If you want mailing labels produced just ask - we already provide fully produced badges to a number of customers so can we make your life easier by taking over some of the pre Christmas tasks - get to your parties early
November 2007
Stablecroft Signage
If you are organising in house events for the festive season, will you suddenly find you need signs to direct visitors to the room, bar (essential!), and other facilities. Rather than have your staff running around like crazy delivering guests to their destination, good use of signage can make your life much easier. We can provide a very attractive range of either Table Top or Floorstanding signs, which are modern and professional - just ask for further information.
November 2007
Stablecroft Welcomes Customer No 500
As a small family business, we were delighted to note that in November our customer list passed the magical 500! To all our customers old and new, we would just like to say thank you for your support and much appreciated business. We don't always appreciate the extremely short lead times but we always do our best to pull white rabbits out of hats when required.
November 2007
Stablecroft Badge Trays Find New Uses
While most of our conference badge trays are used at conferences and events, an increasing number of customers are using our metal badge trays to hold visitor passes in reception - the trays offer a very neat and space saving way of displaying passes, ready for use, particularly where it is impractical to wall mount a storage facility.
November 2007
Stablecroft Record October
Our new website has now been found by major search engines (we hope!!) and we would like to welcome the ten new customers, from very diverse industries, who have purchased Stablecroft conference products this month.
October 2007
Stablecroft Launch new Website
Stablecroft are very excited to announce the launch of our new website. We've been working on it for quite some time and today is the day we switch over.
We hope you will take time to explore the website. Since it just went live, we would also like your help and feedback. Just go to the 'Contact us' page and send us an email. Thanks to STORM for building the website and making the process so simple.
August 2007
Stablecroft move Premises
We are very pleased to announce that we have moved into our new premises in Dumfries and Galloway. You can view our contact page for full address details.
June 2007