Nick Colyer is joining us for the summer for a work placement, having just finished his HND at Bedford College and a previous working placement at Connexions, Bedfordshire and Luton.

Nick will be with us until at the end of september to further his academic achievements to date and upgrade his HND to an Honours Degree at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Hopefully he’ll be smiling by the end of the placement!

Welcome to Christopher who joins us this week for his work experience from Cardinal Newman School in Luton. Chris is following his current interest in becoming a designer. He had found it quite hard to get a placement at an agency and we were only too happy to help.

This follows a similar placement last year and helps build and re-affirm our Corporate Social Responsibility Policy as a growing agency.

This is a personal thank you from Steve for everyone that donated to Macintyre Care after his girlfriends untimely and unfortunate passing away. In total just under £4000 was raised which is an amazing amount, but an amount that will provide untold enjoyment for those for which Ruth cared for at Macintyre.

The money will be spent on many areas, but with a focus on the music and dance aspects within which Ruth had particular interest. Items such as a Camcorder, Keyboard, Digital Camera, TV, Video, DVD player and the redecoration of the day room, re-carpeting of the craft room, the redecorating of outside facilities/replacement of benches and the painting of playground games onto the courtyard are but a few of the benefits for the users of the service provided at Macintyre Care.

A big hand and thanks to all, from Steve and the families.

Steve would like to extend his thanks to everyone for their patience, consideration and thoughtful messages over the past couple of weeks.

All of you will have noticed the young lady, giving you the short of Bonfire Design, both here at the front of our website, and on our Site Test Mailer sent out in October.

As some of you knew, this was Ruth, Steve’s partner of 4 and a half years. Unfortunately Ruth left us peacefully on 28th November having been diagnosed two weeks earlier with lung cancer. Ruth was full of energy, life, smiles and found her own happiness from helping others.

Donations in Ruth’s memory will be made to her place of work, Macintyre Care, where she found great happiness working with adults with special needs. Steve and Ruth’s family thought it only right that any donations should be used to help them carry on their wonderful work. Any donations are to be made payable to either Stephen Judge or David Binks, her father, and will be sent to Macintyre Care through Bonfire Design.

Steve would also like offer special thanks to Prism Digital Print and Digital Displays for their help with the printing for Ruth\’s service documentation and their kind donations.