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MANY HANDS MAKE

www.manyhandsmake.co.uk

01858 465376

The Many Hands Make charity coffee morning featuring chocolate fondue fountain (as snapped below) was well attended and boosted our fundraising for the Race for Life. We have passed our target of £1000 and the total is still rising - excellent- see our Cancer Research UK page for the latest total and to sponsor us – or complete one of our sponsorship forms here at Barking House on the green mile (Farndon Road) or at the Swimgym on the Riverside Industrial Estate - Market Harborough

This week has been quiet in one way but eventful in others. A drunk driver crashed into Rachel’s husband’s parked car on Sunday evening probably writing it off so not a good week for the Jarvis family.

Many Hands Make have spent the week keeping their heads down and dealing with client’s VAT returns, payrolls and book-keeping on the accounting side; researching venues for conference and dinner, despatching goods and preparing for an AGM on the admin side of the business.

Choose Many Hands Make – your virtual office based in Market Harborough for bookkeeping on Sage or spreadsheets, payroll, order fulfilment, typing and word processing or any other admin requirements

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• Friend of Many Hands Make the famous Brian Davies of Mad Photography was on the radio station Heart Northants. We didn’t get the opportunity to listen to it, and details are sketchy but reading their breakfast prog blog reveals that Brian is a Speedo wearer and it was all about fashion! Brian offers the full range of photographic services and studio facilities at MAD Photography, home of the Speedo.
• Case of the missing crumpet – Many Hands Make eat breakfast here at Barking House – Pat swims first thing in the morning at Swimgym and Rachel sorts out the rest of the Jarvis household. This week we went to the cupboard but one of our crumpets was missing. HELP! Good job Mannix Security are in the building…. or is it? Watch this space as investigations continue by Tracey from our neighbours Acousticar. Just goes to show Steve was right – no crumpet in Barking House.
• Many Hands Make are still in training so we’re trying to go for a walk every day before lunch – so if you call us please leave a message because that’s what voicemail is for. Walks this week have taken in East Farndon where we saw some gorgeous calves and Lubenham Hill where we saw a strange man lying on a grass verge.
• Got to mention it again - Many Hands Make’s fundraising for the Race for Life has passed our target of £1000 and still rising - excellent- see our Cancer Research UK page for the latest total and to sponsor us – or complete one of our sponsorship forms here at Barking House on the green mile (Farndon Road) or at the Swimgym on the Riverside Industrial Estate - Market Harborough
• You may have heard that England won a match yesterday! I remember the 1966 World Cup and our brand new colour TV from Radio Rentals that broke the day before the final. Dad stayed on the phone till they replaced it (no hold muzak in those days, colour TV’s were new and no-one owned a TV they were all rented)
• The chocolate fondue fountain allegedly sourced for the Many Hands Make charity coffee morning TOMORROW 25^th June has been fully tested and we hope someone will turn up and help Rachel use it!

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One of Many Hands Make’s clients asked if we knew a good photographer and we had no hesitation in putting forward Mad Photography who cover Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas to do a shoot at Pitsford. Brian, the main MAD man, is a true professional and, with studio facilities as well, MAD Photography offer the full range of photographic services.

Following Pat’s presentation (she bored them with admin) Market Harborough Business Club are looking for guest presenters for their Friday breakfast meetings – any willing volunteers contact pat@manyhandsmake.co.uk or steve@mckenzie-thorpe.com

Pat had a day out in KL – no not Kuala Lumpur but King’s Lynn! Nice change, beautiful English countryside.

Rachel attended a meeting with clients at the Angel Hotel, Market Harborough, took minutes, and had further discussion regarding an exhibition she is planning

Tracey from our neighbours Acousticar specialists in the supply and fitting of a wide range of products and services for all vehicles including audio, alarms, immobilizers, hands free car kits, trackers, reversing /parking aids, window tinting, navigation systems and much more became a great aunt!!

Magic Bullet fuel treatment for motorcycles launched a new range of merchandise http://www.magicbulletstore.co.uk/

Many Hands Make’s fundraising for the Race for Life has passed our target of £1000 and still rising - excellent- see our Cancer Research UK page for the latest total and to sponsor us – or complete one of our sponsorship forms here at Barking House on the green mile (Farndon Road) or at the Swimgym on the Riverside Industrial Estate - Market Harborough

Many Hands Make are still in training so we’re trying to go for a walk every day before lunch – so if you call us please leave a message because that’s what voicemail is for. Mobiles will be answered possibly with huffing and puffing!

The chocolate fondue fountain allegedly sourced for the Many Hands Make charity coffee morning on 25^th June will be on test at a secret location this weekend.

Choose Many Hands Make – your virtual office based in Market Harborough for bookkeeping on Sage or spreadsheets, payroll, order fulfilment, typing and word processing or any other admin requirements

Many Hands Make – for virtually all your admin requirements.

• Chairman of Market Harborough Business Club and friend of Many Hands Make, Steve Castledine, was interviewed on Harborough FM. We tried to record his promotion of MHBC but guess what – BT Business Broadband dropped out half way though the interview - aaaahhhh. The funniest thing was me trying to tune the radio to Harborough FM in a scramble. Harborough FM have kindly promised a recording.
• I foolishly made an appointment to order new varifocal sunglasses – heralding the advent of driving rain. Sorry everyone.
• Otherwise in the virtual world of Many Hands Make we’ve had some new enquiries – an encouraging sign! We continue to try and make good use of social media.
• Rachel has almost finished entering data to build a customer database for a client which will hopefully win repeat and new business for them
• Pat has run weekly payrolls and will be advising all payroll customers of payments due to HMRC this month
• Management accounts for May for various customers are in progress
• Many Hands Make are in training so we’re trying to go for a walk every day before lunch – so if you call us please leave a message because that’s what voicemail is for. Mobiles will be answered possibly with huffing and puffing!
• Many Hands Make’s fundraising for the Race for Life has topped £900 - see our Cancer Research UK page for the latest total and to sponsor us – or complete one of our sponsorship forms here at Barking House on the green mile (Farndon Road) or at the Swimgym on the Riverside Industrial Estate - Market Harborough

Choose Many Hands Make – your virtual office based in Market Harborough for bookkeeping on Sage or spreadsheets, payroll, order fulfilment, typing and word processing or any other admin requirements

Many Hands Make – for virtually all your admin requirements.

Headline news – Rachel has gained a Chocolate Fondue Fountain and the riot predicted may take place at the Many Hands Make coffee morning on 25^th June, proceeds going to Cancer Research UK.

Otherwise in the virtual world of Many Hands Make it’s been an odd couple of weeks.

• Rachel and family hit Kefalonia for a week avoiding plague, pestilence, strikes and volcanic ash thereby reducing the Many Hands available in our virtual office
• The manufacturer of a product despatched by Many Hands Make on behalf of a client decided to change the name, pack size and quantity of the product without warning (they’re German hopefully we’ll get our revenge). This lead to a mailshot containing product information and luckily Many Hands Make – your virtual office promote mailshots as one of their services.
• Pat and Rachel have both attended local networking events here in Market Harborough, made new contacts, had a good laugh, and hopefully gained another payroll client
• Rachel has started entering data to build a customer database for a client which will hopefully win repeat and new business for them
• Pat has run fifteen payrolls, some monthly, some weekly and a couple of four-weekly
• Google Analytics show that Many Hands Make – your virtual office use of social networks has increased hits on our website
• The cinema project in Market Harborough has been successful – well done guys
• Many Hands Make’s fundraising for the Race for Life continues - see our Cancer Research UK page for the latest total – or complete one of our sponsorship forms here at Barking House on the green mile (Farndon Road) or at the Swimgym on the Riverside Industrial Estate - Market Harborough

Choose Many Hands Make – your virtual office based in Market Harborough for book-keeping on Sage or spreadsheets, payroll, order fulfilment, typing and word processing or any other admin requirements

Many Hands Make – for virtually all your admin requirements.

Many Hands Make is 4 years old

Many Hands Make – your Virtual Office based in Market Harborough is 4 years old this month.

There is an English Proverb which says ‘great oaks from little acorns grow’ and that is certainly true in our case.  From a very basic idea after a conversation with someone that needed holiday cover for their business, Many Hands Make was born.

We would like to thank all our clients, past and present, for helping us to make Many Hands Make – your Virtual Office a success.

As a bit of fun, we have also looked at other important events that happened in May 2006:-

• 07 May 2006 – Snow Patrol were number one in the album charts with “Eyes Open”
• 12 May 2006 – Harborough Mail headline – ‘Quacking End to Drain Drama’ about eight one day old ducklings that were reunited with their mother after falling down a drain
• 13 May 2006 — Liverpool win the 125th FA Cup final beating West Ham 3-1 on penalties following a thrilling 3-3 draw after extra time.
• 19 May 2006 – Harborough Mail headline – ‘Where the Dinosaurs Roam’ about a family of dinosaurs that descended on Harborough as part of the Jurassic Leicestershire event.
• 20 May 2006 - Finnish monster rock band Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
• 28 May 2006 — Cheltenham Town win promotion to the League One by defeating Grimsby Town 1-0 in the League Two play-off final.
• 30 May 2006 – Harborough Mail headline – ‘Gear up for Noisy Assault on Traffic Hell’ about traffic congestion in Market Harborough (no change there then)
• Gnarls Barkley had the number one spot in the singles chart throughout May 2006 with “Crazy”

Don’t forget, if you require any help with book-keeping, secretarial services, payroll or any other admin, Many Hands Make – your Virtual Office is here to help. Contact Pat or Rachel via our website or Twitter (@manyhandsmake), call 01858 465376 or email enquiry@manyhandsmake.co.uk

As we all know word processing software is not a cheap purchase for any small business consequently Many Hands Make – Your Virtual Office would like to make you aware of Google Docs as a free alternative www.docs.google.com.  All you need is a Google account.

• You can also create spreadsheets and presentations as well as word processing documents
• The format and toolbars of the Google documents are very familiar
• When documents are saved they can be sorted into folders and accessed again by just logging into your account
• Documents can be saved to your computer or desktop
• Using the ‘download as’ option you can save as a HTML, OpenOffice, PDF, RTF, Text or Word documents
• Share documents by giving users a link to follow or attaching the document to an email

As a Virtual Office, Many Hands Make are always on the look out for user friendly, preferably FREE resources to help clients and Google Docs is definitely one of those.

Have a look and see what you think!

Many Hands Make – Your Virtual Office has dealings with a wide variety of businesses across the Leicestershire area and beyond.  One such business is Blakie Database Programming.  If you are considering as to whether to invest in a new database or combining a new database with an existing one, then Many Hands Make – Your Virtual Office would definitely recommend that you get in touch.   Blakie Database Programming is able to tailor each database to their clients own specific requirements and some example Case Studies can be found by following the link.

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