This weekend marked the official opening of a flagship development from client, David Wilson Homes, and a huge sigh of relief from the PR team that our latest project came off exactly as planned.

The Sales Centre at De Vessey Village, in Greylees near Sleaford, was officially declared open with the unveiling of an exciting project that Unsworth Sugden had the pleasure of taking on.

The request from the client was for seven information boards, which would detail the history of the site this new development stands on with interesting wording and striking images.

With a basic brief and some useful resources supplied by the client, we sifted through a mountain of information to pick out what we thought visitors to De Vessey Village would find most interesting.

However, with just three weeks to bring everything together, including writing and gaining approval for the copy, sourcing images, designing the layout and ensuring the boards were produced and installed on time, we certainly had a challenge on our hands.

Cool, collected and ever the professionals, we made the project our priority and liaised with the client every step of the way to transform their simple sketched idea into a unique project with wow factor – and the feedback we’ve received from the client has proved we succeeded all of their expectations.

De Vessey Village is a historic site with a wealth of stories to tell, which is why David Wilson Homes was so keen to celebrate its past.

In fact, the site of the new development covers 110 years and with just seven information boards to produce, narrowing down over a century’s worth of stories was always going to be tough, but it’s one we’ve thoroughly enjoyed tackling.

We’re delighted to see the finished project proudly on display for all to see, but turning our clients’ dreams into a reality is really all in a day’s work here at Unsworth Sugden.

Our client, David Wilson Homes, is sponsoring a Labrador puppy whilst he completes his guide dog training.

We are kept up to date with Wilson’s progress, as he completes his first year of training with his Puppy Walker, with report cards. It is a little like being at puppy school; Wilson is marked on his health, his skills, and his socialisation experience and we are pleased to announce that he has passed his second progress report with flying colours! Although, with all youngsters, he still has things to improve on and learn.

Wilson scored the highest mark (excellent) in all five tests of his health which included having all of his adult teeth and a good appetite. He is also excellent at being handled and responding to commands such as ‘sit’ and ‘stay’. However, Wilson needs some work on his toileting routine as he is expected to stay clean on walks and respond to ‘busy’ command when toileting. Overall though, his report card is very good with just some room to improve in situations like travelling on trains and being left alone for up to 3 hours during the day.

Wilson recently visited the Mercia office in Meriden as part of his training where our photographer, Steve Baker, was able to catch up with him and his Puppy Walkers. He showed everyone at the Mercia office the training skills he had been learning. At 8 months old, we and David Wilson Homes believe he is a star!

Client, David Wilson East Midlands, has got into the team spirit in time for the new season by sponsoring a rugby club local to its The Chestnuts development in Syston. A pitch-side advertising banner promoting the development now has pride of place on the sidelines at Syston Rugby Club in view of all spectators for the entire season.

Last month I was lucky enough to join client David Wilson East Midlands and around 300 homebuyers to celebrate the launch of Newton Park, a new homes development located on the former site of RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire. David Wilson and it’s development partner Bellway, paid homage to the history of the site by hosting an aviation themed event and invited local residents to come along and celebrate the unveiling of four brand new showhomes.

The PR team worked hard to arrange the day’s events, ensuring the day was a success. The event started with a ribbon cutting ceremony when Group Captain CB ‘Sid’ Adcock BA RAF (Retd), who was the last station commander to serve at RAF Newton, officially marked the new showhomes as open. Subsequent highlights throughout the day included an RAF Newton heritage display by local author Tim O’Brien, music from Nottingham Jazz and the complimentary hog roast. And no aviation themed launch event would be complete without a fly over and air display by an actual RAF Chipmonk.

Captain Sid Adcock opening the showhome with Sales Adviser Carol

Pupils from St Botolph’s Church of England Primary School in Shepshed took part in a literacy competition supported by client, Newby Castleman this month. Pupils from Years 4 and 5 entered a contest to help stimulate creative thinking and writing, based on a fictional scenario where a character finds a large seed sitting in a jar labelled “This seed should never be planted”. Pupils were then encouraged to explain what happened when the character planted the seed. The three top entrants received book vouchers and Newby Castleman also donated tickets for the class to see the stage adaptation of the children’s book Mr Stink, written by David Walliams, that was recently held at Leicester’s Curve Theatre.

Annalise Lovett Partner at Newby Castleman with the winners

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(l-r) Alex Coltman, Ian Bentley, Gary Tebbatt, David Dearden, Henry Patecki, Peter Seditas, Ben Derbyshire

Site managers working for client David Wilson East Midlands, have been commended in a national campaign to find the best-run building sites in Britain. A record seven site managers have been named as recipients of the prestigious NHBC (National House-Building Council) Pride in the Job Quality Award.The Pride in the Job Quality Awards are the most coveted in the housebuilding industry. All seven site managers will now go forward to the final round of the competition which will select the best site manager in Britain. Site managers working for Barratt Group have won the highest number of Pride in the Job Quality Awards for an unprecedented seventh consecutive year.

The children of Barrow-upon-Soar had something to keep them entertained over the Easter holidays after client David Wilson East Midlands opened a brand new playground in the village.

The Mayor of Charnwood, Councillor Jill Vincent, visited the site which is located at David Wilsons Meadow Grange development, to test the equipment for herself and give it the civic seal of approval.

The playground was given a big thumbs up by both the children, who were the first to try out the state of the art equipment and the Mayor. Crowds of eager youngsters witnessed the official launch as the Mayor and David Wilson Sales Director Philip Lacey, cut a ribbon to officially mark the play area as open.

The unveiling was also attended by representatives from Charnwood Borough Council and Barrow-upon-Soar parish council who have worked in close conjunction with the housebuilder to develop a scheme that would not only enhance the community of Meadow Grange, but the surrounding village too.

Don’t forget, The Lyng - a major regeneration project by client Barratt West Midlands - will officially kick off this weekend (Saturday 16th April), with the help of West Bromwich Albion legends Tony Bomber Brown and Brendon Batson.  For details contact 0121 585 5605 or visit www.thelyngalive.co.uk.

I’m Charlie Thacker, I’m 15 and I have done my two weeks work experience here at Unsworth Sugden and it has been great. I have learnt a lot and I will take this experience with me and make the most of it.

Over the two weeks most of my time has been spent in the studio with Matt and Steve. I’d like to thank them for all their help and I’m sure that they really enjoyed having their picture taken for my newsletter. For my newsletter I had to go round and interview most people about their area of expertise so I got to know some really nice people along the way. For one day I helped out downstairs in recruitment advertising and I really enjoyed that too.

The last two weeks have been a fantastic experience and I’d like to say thank you to everyone at Unsworth Sugden for giving me this opportunity.

Thank you.

Charlie hard at work on the newsletter