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• 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!

On 10^th July 2010 Pat and Rachel from Many Hands Make, your virtual office and Rachel’s 13 year old daughter Samantha  are walking 10 kilometres (yes 10!) in the Race for Life in memory of our dads, Derek Bradley and Ken Duncombe, who we lost last year to cancer and to raise funds for Cancer Research UK to help all those still fighting the disease. We are asking all our friends, clients and favourite people  for sponsorship. We would be so grateful for any amount, no matter how little, and ask that you follow this link to our fundraising page:-

www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/manyhandsmake

Thanks for your support

Pat and Rachel

Many Hands Make – Your Virtual Office is now on Twitter.  Click on the link below to follow us.

Many Hands Make have gained more hands, two to be precise, belonging to Verity our virtual office imp. Verity reveals herself when she gets bored, just to cause a bit of mischief and keep Pat and Rachel on their toes.

This week went along normally – Pat preparing management accounts, Rachel out on Tuesday minuting a meeting then on Wednesday starting a database cleansing project at a client’s premises. Verity thought that was too quiet, so on Thursday when Pat and Rachel went to visit Mike and Paul at MP Accountants she caused the navigator to miss Lamport Manor entirely and they drove to  Old before turning back. Not too much disruption as coffee was still available. Although Many Hands Make….. your virtual office and MP Accountants (clients are people not commodities) have no clients in common they like to keep in touch and share local information and events.

So on Friday, with the prospect of spending all day alone with Pat while Rachel continued her database project, Verity the virtual office imp interfered with the Market Harborough Business Club breakfast meeting. The meeting started promptly in a businesslike fashion but then Verity the virtual office imp interacted with Fergus the MAD Photography fairy and wham bam alakazam it degenerated into laughing, joking, sideswiping FUN! It was so good we all undertook to meet again next Friday.

So another week over in Many Hands Make… your virtual office. Verity has not yet reappeared so no doubt the virtual office imp is plotting something for next week.