Bonfire adds yet more fuel to the fire

As we continue our expansion Bonfire is pleased to welcome Senior Account Manager Ralph Barter to the team. Ralph joins us from the agency Purple Frog in Thame and will be working to grow new accounts and to manage and maintain great relationships with new and existing clients.

When asked what he was looking forward to most about taking up his new position at Bonfire, Ralph explained: “I’m excited to be working with the creative team to produce some impactful and effective results.”

When he is not working or running around after his two young sons, Ralph likes to keep fit and is currently training hard for Tough Mudder, a twelve-mile obstacle course which is apparently the toughest endurance event on the planet. Rather you than us Ralph!

A ‘FINA’ night at the museum

Kensington and Chelsea-20120804-01188FINA, the international governing body of swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming, held an Olympics dinner for its members on Friday night.

Jen from Bonfire and Maria from cremePR were invited to the dinner at the Natural History Museum to ensure guests were taken care of.

The dinner was attended by over 700 people from the aquatics sector and included Olympics judges, as well as Olympic officials and Locog Chair Seb Coe. The night was packed full of entertainment with a seven-piece orchestra, accompanied by opera singers that made the evening really special.

The museum hall looked spectacular with a dinosaur skeleton as the centre piece – truly amazing! The best bit was walking around an empty museum at night; it was like a scene from the Ben Stiller film, ‘Night at the Museum!’

Bonfire’s Director Jason cycles 60 miles for Breakthrough Breast Cancer!

The Start[1]Following on from the success of Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins efforts in ‘le Tour de France’, on Sunday 22nd July, our Director, Jason and his friend Andy, set off to complete the 60 mile London to Cambridge bike ride to help raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The guys had put in “months of training” they assured us and were blessed with the weather, as Sunday was the hottest day of the year up to that point.

Starting at a gentle pace Jason and Andy soon got motoring, up to the point where Andy was unceremoniously dismounted from the saddle at 20mph. But, all in the name of charity, he got back on the pedals so nothing hurt to badly. Once motoring they managed to complete the 60 mile ride in just under 5 hours.

Jason said, “I won’t say it didn’t hurt at times (London to Cambridge is not flat!) but it really was a great day. It was great to ride the route with so many others, all for the one common and worthy cause. Some people were obviously out for a fast time on their road racing bikes, others were happy to complete it at any pace on BMX and shopping bikes, one or two crazy people even did the route on Roller Blades! I owe Andy a large drink for waiting for me as well, I really do need to work on riding up hills! A massive thank you to everyone who sponsored me for the ride. My target was to raise £250 and I managed to smash that target by raising over £600. Between Andy and myself we raise over £1,200 which makes every sore muscle worth it. Here’s to next year!”

Bonfire welcomes Anil to the team!

We are very excited to introduce the newest member of our growing team, Anil Nataly. Anil has a good few years of experience and has worked with clients such as Virgin Media, BBC, Next, Adidas, Puma, Gap, Levis, Ted Baker, M&S, Banana Republic, Top Shop and Nike (to name a few). He has pitched in Amsterdam to Virgin Europe and worked on TV commercials for Stella – remember the Ice Skating Priests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGM73gb1b4.

Anil is also the brand guardian for Durbar the worlds largest Asian Music Charity and now and again is invited along to lecture at DeMontford University. Anil has an excellent versatility to his style of design which exploits both modern and contemporary approaches. You can have a sneak preview of some of his work at: http://www.bigeyebrow.com

We welcome Anil with open arms and believe that he will make a massive contribution to Bonfire by helping us to make yet another important step forward.

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