February 22, 2012

Keep Buying Charity Christmas Cards

An estimated £50 million is generated for hundreds of good causes every year In the UK, the sale of greeting cards is the number one charity fundraiser at Christmas. More funds are raised by the sale of charity cards than by any other individual product. Where the charity publishes and sells the cards, the gains [...]

Judges Support Local Schools With Pen Donation

As part of their our ongoing commitment to support local organisations Judges Postcards Ltd were pleased to be able to supply pens and pencils to the local schools. “With in house production for over printing pens and pencils, we inevitably get a build up of spares and overs”, says Trevor Wolford Sales Director of Judges, ” We [...]

Judges Sales Director – Loses Hair (For Charity)

Trevor Wolford – Sales Director For Judges Helps St Michael’s Hospice raise money. “There are simple ways and hard ways to raise money for St Michael’s Hospice. Running Hastings Half Marathon was one of the hard ways, which unfortunately I will probably not do again. Thoughts of throwing myself out of a perfectly safe aircraft [...]

Judges Postcards Study Group – The Change To Digital Publishing

An excerpt from one of the Judge’s Postcards Study Group newsletters, which looks back on the change to digital publishing and the evolution of tools like Adobe Photoshop to aid the publishing process. Now you see him,… …now you don’t. A picture snow scene at night taken around 1909, had a frame put around it [...]

Postcards – more than just a pretty picture.

Some fun facts about Judges Postcards … • One of the Company’s early achievements was to be awarded the contract by the Post Office for the production of postcards commemorating their Special Issue Stamps. Orders for five to six issues per year, each of which require 1.2 million cards for each issue were printed. During [...]

Lights of Love and Light up a Life.

“Lighting a candle to help hospices is such a simple thing, but it is also symbolic and means others who are facing the end of life will be helped. I will be lighting a candle for my Mother and remembering a happy life with her and my father.” Michael Parkinson “I am giving my support [...]

Creating The Perfect – Own Designed Print Product

Judges can help you with production of calendars, postcards, greetings cards and many other products. Getting your own design on your product adds to the appeal for your organisation. In this short article we will guide you through some of the common pitfalls we see when creating your own designed print products. 1. Product – [...]

Digital Camera To Print

Digital cameras have no doubt made photography, more accessible than any time in its 150 years history, with image retouching, storage and printing. In order to process your supplied digital images into suitable images ready for commercial print, (a different process to your home printer), for example for calendar printing,  postcard printing, or greeting card [...]

How do you make your customers FEEL?

The following is a guest post from our colleague and friend Jonathan Winchester from the UK’s leading Mystery Shopping Company – Shopper Anonymous.  Jonathan first published this post on the Shopper Anonymous blog in 2010. We thought the message was a good one, so with Jonathan’s permission, we have re-posted the content here for our [...]

Bexhill Rowing Club – 2011 – Case Study

Bexhill Rowing Club was established in 1893 and has developed into one of the most successful coastal clubs today. Winning multiple championship titles on both coastal and river waters and dominating its own league continuously over the past decade. The Club is also home to over 20 members, which hold British and World Records. However, [...]