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02 CSUOPMPMOURNTIINTIGESOUR Foreword from Tony Barnett, inside article) or a paid staff day out planting trees or Managing Director: individual efforts to raise money for local chosen causes such as the Air Ambulance and local Cancer John E Wright was founded on April 1st 1900 by my Care; this all helps to make our communities a better Great Grandfather John Wright. The Blue Print place to live, work and play. machine had just been invented and John Wright We seek to support the young, very old and vulnerable provided copying services to Architectural, members of our society who, for no fault of their own, Engineering & Construction (AEC) companies at a find themselves ill, in difficult circumstances or just time when copies were hand drawn. 122 years later, lonely. the company still provides services to the AEC market The articles within this brochure give a flavour of the but at a vastly quicker and cheaper rate and Head many and varied ways in which our staff contribute to Office retains, to this day, the title Blue Print House. their local communities. The company endeavours to support them with targeted funding/sponsorship and I am now the fourth generation and throughout our paid time off; but it is the kindness and generous history we have maintained the same values, integrity nature of our staff that makes us proud to support and ethics that my great grandfather introduced all them and their communities. that time ago. Being a family business, we don’t have to support shareholders with dividends. Any profits Tony Barnett are either paid to the staff in bonuses or reinvested in Managing Director new technology to ensure that we are always at the cutting edge of the digital print industry. In this way, the company’s balance sheet is strong and able to withstand some of the inevitable crises that have occurred in the past century including two world wars and two world pandemics! This philosophy enables us to develop long-term relationships with customers, suppliers and staff alike. Our average length of service is measured in decades not years. But this also enables us to serve our community as well. Whether this is through corporate sponsorship of events such as the Children of Courage awards (see Do whatever you can do for your community!

ITNRDEEERPBLYASNHTIIRNEG 03 Planting for our future generation As part of our carbon offset policy, John E Wright works with both Premier Paper and the Woodland Trust on a variety of projects. One of the most popular is tree planting and we never have any trouble finding volunteers to spend a day (paid for by the company) in the open air digging and planting for a more hopeful future. One such project was the redevelopment of an Open Cast mining site near Heanor, Derbyshire. The area has an incredible history with links to DH Lawrence, is mentioned in the Domesday Book at the time of the Norman Conquest and dates further back to the Vikings. It is the intention of the Woodland Trust to plant over 250,000 trees to create a New Forest which they are calling the Young People’s Forest in acknowledgement of the effort young people are making to create this forest. In the coming years, as well as the new forest, the site will also feature rich grasslands, wild meadows and a number of beautiful ponds to encourage wildlife. The site is home to a variety of birds including short-eared owls, curlews and skylarks as well as hares, badgers, deer and a variety of rare butterflies and bees. A similar project started 5 years ago in Nottingham at the site of the old Gedling Colliery has transformed a wasteland into a new park, especially popular for dog walkers. The trees planted there are now starting to mature and it is wonderful to see the fruits of all our labours working to improve our environment and support wildlife in our cities. BEFORE: Gedling Colliery 2016 AFTER: Gedling Colliery 2021

04 CLOHRADRIMTYAYBOARL’LS John E Wright & Co Ltd has sponsored the Lord Mayor’s Charity Ball held in May each year at the end of their term to raise funds for the Lord Mayor of Nottingham’s chosen charities. At the event, Councillor Morris chose a 1920’s theme to commemorate 70 years of the New Council House. The graphics, including an 8 meter pop-up stand, transported the 150 strong invitation list back 90 years to the opening of the New Council House in 1927 by Edward, Prince of Wales (soon to become Edward VIII). Other graphics included roll-up The Lord Mayor distributing the funds raised from the Charity Ball banners, seating plans, promotional material for other sponsors and of course the invitations, menus and seating name tags. The event raised over £14,000 for the local Deaf Society and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Managing Director, Tony Barnett and his wife Toni with Lord Mayor of Nottingham Jackie Morris at the 2016 Charity Ball

IMAGINATION LIBRARY 05 Leni Goldblum of the Rotary Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a Club of Nottingham with some book-gifting scheme that was launched of the children who have by Dolly Parton in 1995. The charity helps benefitted from the scheme ignite a love of reading in children by over the past 5 years delivering a free book to their home every month from birth until the age of five. This special charity has been giving books to children in parts of Nottingham for five years, and now over 5,000 children have been registered and almost 100,000 books have been delivered. John E Wright can take little credit for this amazing movement other than to keep sponsoring events that raise thousands of pounds to help fund it. Reading standards in Nottingham in the under 8’s was amongst the lowest in the county 10 years ago. Now through schemes such as this, the trend has been reversed and Nottingham is gradually climbing the literacy table which, given the City’s heritage as a UNESCO City of Literature (D H Lawrence et al), is just as well! NOTTINGHAM HOSPICE Some of you may recognise Sean, one of our Sean helping Rotarian engineers. He and some of our other John E John Robinson distribute Wright employees spend a day each year the Nottinghamshire distributing the fund-raising materials, and Hospice fund raising then another day gathering them all up and collateral returning them to the Nottinghamshire Hospice. Thousands are raised in this way for a cause which we are sure you will agree is totally worthy. The Rotary Club of Nottingham President said: “Whilst we liaise with Nottinghamshire Hospice on the timing and logistics it is John E Wright’s fleet of vans and their drivers that make it all happen so smoothly and effectively. We are very grateful for their continued support and it means that all funds raised go directly to Nottinghamshire Hospice without any marketing or distribution costs”.

06 SANTA’S GROTTO John E Wright has developed a “pop-up” Santa’s Santa getting ready Grotto which can be installed in any large room or for the Bilborough gym and is used to bring some much needed Street Party Christmas cheer to those areas of our community where children are not so lucky. It has a warm log RLAEULGINSENONINND:G fire feel inside and, together with the 8 metre snowy forest banners, has a very cold feel outside. Some of you will know Alison (who, by the way, started with us from the age of 16!) is a keen runner and has Santa arrives and leaves in the Rotary Sleigh to been a member of the Smalley Road Runners Club based great local amusement and then spends an near Heanor in Derbyshire for a number of years. exhausting two hours inside the grotto. Young children love it and together with Rotary Club of She has boundless energy and is great at her job. In her Nottingham, the company adds a touch of spare time she runs... and runs, completing some Christmas magic in some less affluent areas of amazing endurance events, most recently the 6 hour Nottingham. Halloween Hell on the Humber. The Grotto and Santa make regular visits to the She is a regular on the Great North Run and her next Bilborough Christmas Street Festival where it can challenge is the Hardmoors 55 mile run across the North be found at the local library. The event also raises Yorkshire Moors. Along with the other club members, some money which goes back to support youth she raises money for charity most notably Red January sports activities in those local areas, good old every year which helps to fund MIND (Mental Health), fashioned youth clubs and football teams. and supporting a number of other events throughout the year raising thousands of pounds for local community projects.

TSAAHRLMEVYATION 07 On the first Sunday of December every year, there is a Members of a local fantastic Carol Concert hosted by the Salvation Army school, lead the and The Rotary Club of Nottingham which is held at singing at the 2018 the William Booth Memorial Halls on Edwards Street, Carol Concert in central Nottingham. John E Wright provides 350 Orders of Service and all the associated marketing collateral (posters etc) free of charge, enabling all the money raised to go direct to the Salvation Army for Christmas Dinners for the elderly and homeless. 350 people attend the event raising sufficient funds for over 250 meals on Christmas Day. The Rotary membership and some John E Wright employees also give up their time on Christmas Day to “taxi” the elderly, and often lonely, citizens to and from this remarkable event. CHILDREN OF COURAGE:Pictured:LordMayorofNottingham, Michael Wildgust, at a previous event NEW SPONSOR! withtheAwardWinners Following 5 years of support from the law firm the human spirit to overcome mental and physical Cartwright King, John E Wright has been selected to hurdles many of us cannot even imagine and to be the new sponsor of the annual Nottingham present a positive and inclusive opportunity to join Children of Courage Awards. mainstream education and society in general. Some of the stories these young people tell are truly The annual event is next to be held at the Council inspirational and afterwards you can’t help but take House on April 2nd 2020 and, as always, will be a more positive view of life. This ceremony and the hosted by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor awards we present are just a small recognition of the Rosemary Healy. contribution they have all made to their local communities and the love with which they are held Tony Barnett, John E Wright MD said: “these awards by their families and friends”. reflect in just a small way, the amazing strength of

08 LANIMONTBCTUSSLAAANNIDRCE It is not a necessarily well known fact that the MD Tony Barnett making a Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance donation of cash and banner Service is a totally private funded charity. No public graphics to Heather Rabett, funds are provided at all despite the amazing record of Community Fundraiser these dedicated people. They have carried out over 20,000 life saving missions over the past 25 years. Each mission costs £2,500 and call outs are received from a wide variety of incidents such as traffic accidents, sudden medical conditions (eg heart attacks), agricultural incidents, sporting accidents and falls. The first hour is vital, especially for head injuries, and so the team need upwards of £4 million per year to sustain their excellent work. Indeed the service was called upon in 2010 to help John E Wright ex-Chairman John Barnett (Tony’s father) when he met with an accident with a van whilst out walking on Sunday. The Air Ambulance was there in minutes to help. So, Tony was delighted to have the opportunity to invite Heather to raise awareness of the worthy cause at a Rotary dinner held at the Crowne Plaza in Nottingham in November 2019. As well as a donation from Rotary funds John E Wright doubled that gift and also provided some new roller banner graphics to help Heather in ongoing fund-raising work. Heather messaged the following day: “Just dropping you a quick line to say thank you once again for inviting me to speak at your Rotary Club yesterday, for the preceding meal, and for your kind donations. It was really nice to take part in a full evening with the club. I would also like to say thank you for the roller banners which the team think look amazing! We really appreciate this kind gesture”. HHAOYUWSEOOD Toni Barnett volunteers at Haywood House, based at Nottingham’s City Hospital every Wednesday. With the other volunteers, and the excellent compassionate Haywood House staff, she helps to bring some fun to lives that are drawing to their close. In the picture (lef) she is helping Santa with some Christmas cheer.

NCWIOOTTYNTWDINEINRGLTHAEARNMD 09 John E Wright is proud to be included in the list of more Chamonix than Chamonix itself! People of all ages sponsors of the Nottingham City Winter Wonderland were having a great time and much business was held each year in the Market Square. The event which brought into the City Centre as a result. runs throughout Christmas and New Year is hugely popular with the Nottingham public and attracts visitors John E Wright supplied and installed the incredibly and tourists from many other cities. vibrant graphics for the ice rink area, which featured prominently when the event was covered by BBC News We were sponsors of the ice rink, the biggest feature at 6pm in the week just before Christmas. and by far the busiest part of the attraction! Also busy, were the many concessions, which ranged from vegan Tony Barnett, MD said: “Our lads did a great job working burger bars, Christmas card stalls, a stall selling drinking with the council on a project to make us proud of our City. horns (at least that’s what we think they were?!) and Everyone I was with really enjoyed themselves”. many different bars of course. The Ice Bar was particularly impressive and the whole setup looked

10 YOUTH FOOTBALL Originally founded in 1890 by a group of friends, the Thurmaston Magpies Football Club retains the founding principals that football should be played for fun and cement friendships. The young players learn team skills, sporting manners so often lacking in the modern game and, most of all, have fun. Their coach Danny Wright who is a former fitter for John E Wright says “the kids love it and its a great way for them to run off all that youthful energy”. The weekends are spent taking them out and watching them improve their skills and to generally enjoy themselves. He adds “this club is all about having fun” John E Wright is proud to offer support with some new kit for the team once a year. CDOEFMIBMRUILNLITAYTOARED An AED defibrillator is an important lifesaving because they can be used before emergency resource for any local area. The device offers fully medical service personnel arrive. automated life-saving emergency therapy quickly and can be operated by anyone. At the present time The survival rate can be as high as 90% if used there are over 10,000 in the UK and this number is within the first minute, or up to 74% if used within growing rapidly. The machines are fully automated, the first 5 minutes, showing that having a portable and can analyse the heart for shock defibrillator close by really does make all the rhythms. They are designed to give shocks difference. Hussey & Knights, now part of John E automatically, and the rescuer does not need to Wright Ltd, are proud to be one of a group of local press any buttons. Onsite AEDs save precious businesses that donated towards making this treatment time, and can improve survival odds possible in the local community.

EAAIRSATMABNUGLLAIANNCE 11 Charity Sweets organisation. The sweet tooth of both our customers and Collection Box staff keep the donations flowing whether it be a Jaffa cake with a cuppa or maybe a bag of wine gums for an afternoon treat, the EAAA charity sweet box is a real success”. EAAA was launched in August 2000 and this amazing 24/7 service is funded by private charity donations alone. In 2021 so far, the EAAA have completed 1225 missions, flown 47,452 miles and attended to 1,413 patients. Following an urgent fundraising appeal in May, EAAA is now able to permanently carry packed red blood cells and freeze-dried plasma on every mission. EAAA’s Blood on Board project has involved raising in excess of £90,000. Partnership working between Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), and two volunteer-driven blood biker charities, SERV Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Blood Bikes, ensure a high-quality, daily supply of red blood cells to each of the EAAA operational bases. Customer Service Manager, Lynnette Brooks said “the EAAA are close to my heart because, a few years ago, my nephew was badly hurt in a motorcycle accident and the EAAA were at the scene in minutes to help him.” She added “ Donations of any size are valuable to this kind of CGOARMDMEUNNITY Many of our staff give up their valuable time to give something back. Keith James (centre left, back row) has worked at John E Wright for over 30 years and has just retired. Keith is pictured with his 1st/2nd West Bridgford Scouts planting a community garden at a local warden aided housing complex. We all wish him a long and happy retirement and wish everyone in his scout group all the best for their future.

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