Diary
January 2010
Claire was invited to become a Fellow, and member, of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) "In recognition of your unique and innovative approach towards towards ensuring that the graphic design industry can help promote and protect the environment.' For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress. Their approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action. To find out more please visit www.thersa.org
July 2008
Green Passion Creative and their design and print management of The Wildlife Trust Annual Review 2006/07 was shortlisted for the Quality in Print Media Awards 2008 in the category of Environmental Corporate and Public Sector Award. 'We faced stiff competition and were up against the Royal Mail (the winner), Alliance and Leicester, Department for Transport, Stralfors Plc and The James McNaughton Group. As a small agency we're delighted to be ranked worthy of being short listed amongst such prominent companies.'
FirstCity Media: 'The QIP Awards are unique in recognizing excellence, innovation and outstanding creative output throughout the print media supply chain. These awards are therefore a celebration not only of the well-deserving award winners and the stiff competition they faced but also of the print media industry as a whole - a hotbed of creativity, professionalism and cutting edge technology we believe in.'
March 2008
Claire was invited to speak about 'Environmental and Ethical marketing' practices at a Chartered Institute of Marketing seminar held at Perkins Innovation Centre.
The seminar looked at how to 'green' your business, how to make sure your marketing mix is sustainable, and how to shout about your environmental achievements. The event was well received and a PDF of the presentation is available to clients of Green Passion upon request. Claire advises on this and other 'green' communication strategies with organizations who are looking to implement these practices.
Green Passion completed the first phase of an ongoing project with the Youth Offending Service. Lisa Gordon, a Youth Justice Officer commented: 'Green Passion Creative worked with a client of mine for a period of six weeks engaging him in a photography and digital design project of the local Peterborough area. My client really enjoyed the sessions and the work he produced was outstanding. He is very proud of the images and they are a great display of the skills he developed through his work with them.'
For more information and to view the work please request our portfolio from the form to the right.
January 2008
Green Passion Creative are now Business Partners to the Wildlife Trust following a design project called 'million Mobiles' - a leaflet to instigate the recycling of mobile phones through the Trust and raise funds to support it's actions.
Wildlife Trust clients Linda Marshall, Fundraising Officer and Jonathan Leadley, Fundraising Manager both commented:
'Green Passion Creative has provided an excellent service. The communication, delivery and follow through were efficient and effective. The end product is professional and high quality; ideal for promoting our project. I would thoroughly recommend their work and positive approach.'
December 2007
Green Passion Creative attended an awards ceremony in Newmarket arranged by EEDA and EXDRA (Essex Development & Regeneration Agency) to celebrate the best use of the Towards 2010 business funding.
We received an award for 'Best use of a Training Grant Award for Business Skills Performance in the Environmental Goods and Services area'. We are the only design agency to win this and we're delighted all our hard work to offer a truly 'green' design and print service is being recognized. We would like to thank Bianca Forte from The Centre for Sustainable Engineering and PECT for their support with the grant program.
November 2007
We were sent this link by friends and colleagues.
It's the most inspiring and touching speech made by a young adult (12 years old) on environmental issues...
Though it's from 1992 - you'll hear not much has changed...we hope you enjoy this and pass on to as many people as you can to help continue to raise awareness.
October 2007
We're happy to have become a business partner to The Wildlife Trust and have just completed a project to encourage mobile phone recycling in order to support the charities activities. To find out how to recycle through the trust visit: www.wildlifebcnp.org/supportus- recycle.htm
Claire Simsek is pleased to have been invited by Peterborough City Council Youth Offending Team to offer mentoring and creative skills development to it's group of prolific and serious young offenders in the 'Intense Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP)'. Claire feels it is a great way for Green Passion to demonstrate it's commitment to social responsibility and working 'sustainably' by supporting initiatives such as this in our city. To find out more visit: www.yjb.gov.uk/en-gb/
August 2007
We're delighted to have completed work for a new client - the Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng) who promote 'technologies for a better world'. The CSEng are concerned with the development of environmentally sound, sustainable technologies.
To find out more about CSEng visit www.cseng.org.uk.
To find out more about the work we've done with them please see our portfolio page or contact us on the form to your right.
July 2007
From the 2nd - 6th July we joined in on a week-long event of short movies and animations organized by 'The Space 4' gallery in Peterborough. It was held at the refurbished Key Theatre and formed part of the Peterborough Festival program of events. If you didn't make it this time around it's worth a visit next year and a great way to spend your evenings. To find out more visit http://www.thespace4.org/default.html.
June 2007
On the 25th June, Green Passion Creative was invited by the Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng) and the WEETU organization to give a presentation of the business benefits gained from the Towards 2010 project.
WEETU is a voluntary organization that supports business women and those starting up in businesses. The CSEng are part of the Towards 2010 project which funds training for SMEs in the East of England in order to promote economic growth.
The training formed an integral part of Green Passion's strategic business growth and the experience gained provided a sound example for the CSEng to promote the funding at the WEETU meeting. We received a warm welcome at the WEETU event in Norwich and found meeting the other business women and WEETU staff an inspiration – we're delighted to have been invited back in August for another event.
To find out more about Towards 2010 funding look on http://www.eeda.org.uk/192_44.asp and for WEETU look on http://www.weetu.org/. To enquire how the funding helped us please select 'contact and information' from the navigation menu or call us on the number at the bottom of this screen.