“Parking needs to find it’s true nature”.
Gavin Reddin, managing director of our sister company and key client, Parking and Secure Documents, took time out to visit COP 15 in Montreal with a view to better understanding how transport issues contribute to carbon emissions. He reflects on his visit in the article and on what we can do, as a supplier to the transport industry, to support a drive to sustainability.
To find out how his visit went, just follow the link below.
In the run-up to Christmas, Integrity Print once again held a Christmas Jumper Week fundraiser. Staff members were encouraged to wear their most festive attire during the last week before the Christmas break. As with last year’s event, all the money raised will be donated to the mental health charity, Mind.
As a charity, Mind specialises in providing advice and support to those struggling with their mental health. Their campaigns revolve around empowering people, improving available services, raising public awareness, and promoting a deeper understanding of traditionally stigmatised issues. Receiving donations means they can continue to maintain and improve the helplines that offer confidential advice to callers. Mind also helps professionally train certain staff members from companies that can then use their acquired skills to help improve their own workplaces.
The upheavals we have all experienced during the last few years have highlighted how important taking care of our mental health is. The increased cost of living, continuous drastic changes within our government, and the war in Ukraine all have an impact on general mental well-being. The support that Mind continues to give to those that need it, is an inspiration for all of us at Integrity Print. Having the opportunity to raise money for the charity while celebrating in a suitably festive way, was something we were more than happy to do. Boosted by further contributions from Integrity, this year the team was able to raise £382 for Mind!
While also fundraising for an important cause, Integrity’s Christmas Jumper Week has become a competition between staff members. A special prize is awarded to the person who has been deemed to have made the most effort with their festive attire. This time, a luxury Christmas Hamper was awarded to IT Support Admin Jay White, who impressed the team with not one but two jumpers he brought in during the week. Well done Jay!
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Whether it’s charity bike rides, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution to our local community. We will look to continue our efforts this year, and hopefully make an even greater impact in 2023.
Integrity Print is pleased to sponsor Butleigh Village’s cricket club.
The sponsorship will last for 3 years, starting in 2023 and ending in 2025. Counting 60 members of the club, players will wear the Integrity logo on their sleeves as they take part in upcoming fixtures.
Following some excellent results last year, the club was promoted from playing in the Somerset Premier League to now playing in the West of England Premier League’s Somerset Division. This means their future games will be played at an even higher, more competitive level.
Butleigh is a small village, near the towns of Street and Glastonbury. The village is home to many friendly faces that enjoy the sport of cricket, football, and rugby just as they enjoy tending to their farm animals and the great outdoors.
(Source: Butleigh CC Twitter)
Mark Cornford, Integrity’s Chief Executive Officer, comments:
“We have lived in this beautiful village for over 20 years, and I have always admired the many well-run sports clubs and societies that the village has. Integrity has sponsored Butleigh Cricket Club for a number of years now, it is a vibrant, successful and inclusive club that I am keen to encourage to develop and grow.”
(Source: Dorsetcamera)
We at Integrity wish all players the best of luck in their upcoming season matches!
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
Who Is Integrity Connect?
Integrity Connect is the secure communications fulfilment division of the Integrity Group. As a client-led business, it enables organisations to both connect and communicate with their customers and stakeholders efficiently and effectively across a range of channels. The Connect team provide their clients with highly personalised communications that work across multiple outbound platforms.
If you have not come across Integrity Connect before, you can read more about the services on offer below…
By engaging with Integrity Connect, clients can reach their target customers with effective communications, tailored to deliver the right message, at the right time and through the right channel. Connect’s in-house software platform, backed up by operational excellence at scale, allows clients to access multiple service channels, delivering bespoke solutions while driving down the cost of effective engagement.
What Sectors Do They Operate In?
Integrity Connect operates in a variety of sectors, including Finance, Housing, Local Government, Healthcare, and Law.
What Services Do They Offer?
Direct Mail: Direct mail is an extremely effective, highly targeted, and easily measurable marketing technique. From postcards to flyers, effectively designed direct mail can create lasting connections with prospective customers.
Clarity Mail: A simple and accessible solution to outsourcing desktop mail, increasing efficiency and reducing cost through Connect’s Clarity Mail service. Whatever volume is required, clients can access postal discounting and a same day mailing service.
Web-To-Print: Managing and updating products online, web-to-print technology enables effective inventory management, automated proofing and product ordering, and access to a full audit trail of transactions.
SMS: Deliver accessible SMS communications, which are easily configured with Connect’s SMS outbound services. Built around the Quadient document composition software, clients are able to easily reach a wide audience and link through to additional content.
E-Mail: A content-rich, highly personalised digital mailing solution, Connect can help clients reach segmented groups to achieve optimum success. Through consistent automated messaging, Connect can help improve consumer loyalty and drive business acquisition.
App Development: Built by Connect’s in-house team, clients can extend their reach, boost engagement and drive traffic to their business with powerful, personalised apps designed with their business outcomes in mind.
Connect work with clients to build automated platforms that create documents in a timely, accurate, and compliant environment. By reducing manual intervention into complex data, critical communications can be delivered with reduced risk while freeing up staff time.
Scoped, designed and tested by Connect’s in-house development team, bespoke software solutions enable clients to adapt to the ever changing business landscape, and support digital transformation projects. Solutions are developed to support a variety of requirements such as digital post rooms, payroll archives, automated appointment confirmation systems, or secure voting portals.
How Could I Reach Integrity Connect?
If your business needs support or advice on creating and delivering brilliant communications then the Team at Connect would love to talk with you. Contact them to learn more about their work through their website, which can be found here.
Stay tuned to Integrity Print’s News page to keep up with all the latest updates!
Integrity Print is pleased to sponsor Westfield FC’s first custom-designed training kit, which will be used across all three of their adult section teams. The kit will be worn twice a week at training sessions and worn before each match. The sponsored period will run for 2 years, 2022/23 & 2023/24.
Established in 1976, Westfield has grown considerably, with the introduction of Junior football in 2001, and Senior football in 2008. Today, the club stands strong with twelve teams in total. The sponsored men’s teams play their matches on Saturdays, in part of the Somerset County League and mid-Somerset and Bath & District Leagues. Westfield FC now has ten youth teams, and three men’s teams, giving 230 players the chance to partake in the exciting, and enjoyable environment of football.
Being able to support local teams in Midsomer Norton, in which we are based, is something Integrity has always been enthusiastic about. We believe we can perform better as a team when Integrity’s people – colleagues, friends, and family – can all have the chance to enjoy themselves when going out on to the field and playing competitive sport. The club is a community-based one, and knowing that we assist in keeping the club open for all aspiring players is something we take pride in.
The UK is currently going through trying times as well. With the fallout of Covid still with us, alongside increased pressures of the rising cost of living, it comes as no surprise that members of our community may be struggling with their mental health. With this sponsorship that helps contribute to making these games possible, we hope to see people improve their well-being by being able to play and watch football with their loved ones.
To all Westfield players taking part, we wish you the best of luck this season!
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
Alliance Labels, a division of the Integrity Group, has recently rebranded both its logo and website.
Alliance Labels is a dedicated team of label printers based in the heart of Cardiff. They specialise in the fast turnaround of short to medium-run labels for their customers. From complicated to colourful, the business has broad experience across all forms of print which enables them to deliver a multitude of print and packaging solutions.
Alliance Labels has given the reason for this rebranding as it forms part of their plan to further improve their services to customers.
“We are still the Alliance Labels that you know and (hopefully) love, however, we wanted to become more modern, more efficient, and even more reliable”.
In addition to the rebranding, they are implementing a new MIS system, which involves moving away from individual spreadsheets and embracing a game-changing, centralised cloud system. Along with an expanded product offering, such as thermal and digital print, the Alliance team will have more time to focus on customer engagement and delivery of service.
We at Integrity are delighted to support this exciting period of growth for Alliance and are looking forward to all the new opportunities the changes will bring!
If you have not checked it out already, or wish to contact the Alliance team, you can view their new website here.
Keep up to date with the latest news and events from Integrity Print via our news section, or find Integrity Print on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Integrity Print is proud to sponsor Swansea University’s cricket matches once again. This time, we will be sponsoring both the men and women’s teams taking part in this season of British University and College Sport (BUCS) cricket games.
Integrity Cymru, a division of the Integrity Group, will have its logo on the team kit, and its banner presented with competing team members during these exciting match days.
Prys Jenkins, Integrity Cymru’s MD, describes the newest division:
“Integrity Cymru is the group’s newest division for Welsh operations. It supports its partners to communicate in the most effective and targeted way to its customer base. Our goal is to help organisations elevate and deliver real and tangible value, through communications, as a strategic part of their decision making.”
The sponsored kit will be printed on the white kits for Swansea’s women’s 1st team, as well as both the men’s 1st and 2nd teams. Each team will wear this kit throughout the approximate 18 matches starting in April 2023. The kit will also be worn in their upcoming league matches. Additionally, the Integrity logo will feature on the white kit for the Men’s Development Team, who partake in friendly, non-competitive matches. It will also be shown on Swansea’s green training tops, worn during training in between season fixtures.
Integrity is happy to be able to contribute to the upcoming success, excitement, and competitive spirit of the BUCS games.
Integrity Print’s Chief Executive Officer, Mark Cornford, comments:
“We at Integrity support and encourage health and well-being, team sports, endeavour, a celebration of success, and lessons learned in life and sport. I wanted to give a bit back to my old Uni, show my support to the teams, and at the same time use the sponsorship in some small way to raise the profile of Integrity Cymru.”
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
Integrity Group is delighted to announce our ambition to achieve carbon neutrality and has appointed Auditel, a leading UK Cost, Procurement & Carbon Solutions Company, to support us on our journey towards Net Zero.
Mark Cornford, CEO, Integrity Print Group comments. “At Integrity, we are targeting how we can achieve net-zero carbon by 2035. We have placed great emphasis on developing sustainable business operations and we are committed to supporting our customer’s ambitions and the UK Government’s targets. I want to make a significant impact to benefit our future generations and it is at our operations where we can see real gains to reduce the carbon footprint”
Prys Jenkins, Managing Director, Integrity Cymru division & CSR Lead comments. “All our sites are already contributing to our sustainability ambitions. We are excited about the next stages of working with Auditel to develop a program that allows us to measure, monitor, and report against our combined targets. Integrity is committed to utilising the information to make the most impactful changes moving forward.”
Auditel’s Carbon Specialist, Paul Foster comments. “It’s a privilege to be working with the Integrity Group, as they are a great company with a fantastic heritage and an excellent reputation for quality print products and services. My career started in this sector, and I’ve always had huge admiration for the company, as they have always been at the leading edge and continue to innovate and maintain their leadership in the printing industry. It’s great to be working together to extend their environmental credentials further in “Developing a Roadmap to Verified Carbon Neutrality and Net Zero“
Auditel is a leading Cost, Procurement & Carbon Solutions Company. They help organisations reduce their carbon emissions whilst also reducing their costs. In the current challenging economic climate, organisations are battling with the desire to drive growth and profitability, whilst investing in low carbon emitting technologies to reduce their carbon footprint and speed up their journey to achieving Net Zero.
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity Group has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
Labels Plus, a division of the Integrity Group, is pleased to be making a donation to The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA). Tom Crellin, husband of Labels Plus sales manager Emmie Barton, is undertaking the National Three Peaks Challenge on 10th September to raise funds for the charity.
NACOA is a Bristol-based charity founded in 1990, that addresses the needs of children growing up in families where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism or a similar addictive problem. They work to support children that are more likely to experience family violence, neglect, and other problems in their homes due to alcohol.
For many years Tom had worked in the licence trade and has seen first-hand how alcohol has affected families. It is also something that Tom has experienced first-hand in his family. This being something close to his heart, Tom wanted to take on this challenge to help support the charity.
The National Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks of Scotland, England, and Wales, which are all completed within 24 hours. Through walking up Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Snowden, Tom will be undertaking a huge trek that will challenge him to achieve 23 miles (37km) of total walking distance and a total ascent of 3,064 metres (10,052 ft)!
Paul Wilson, Managing Director for Labels Plus, comments:
“We would like to donate to Tom & his chosen charity as we feel it is a worthy cause often overlooked. During the lockdown, NACOA has suffered funding cuts, despite receiving an extra 3,000 calls a year from children affected by alcohol issues. We feel strongly about supporting every child to have the right to a happy childhood and to live a creative and meaningful life. Supporting one of our manager’s loved ones in this admirable challenge was something we were more than happy to help with.”
Labels Plus is a recognised and well-respected self-adhesive label supplier. With offices based in Bath, Suffolk, and the High Peak, the brand is now synonymous with industry-leading quality and outstanding customer service. Operating for 25 years, Labels Plus is proud to continue supplying high-quality custom labels for clients in over thirty countries worldwide.
Labels Plus and the rest of the Integrity Group wish Tom the best of luck in taking on the National Three Peaks Challenge and achieving his donation target!
If you would like to help Tom reach his donation goal, you can do so via his JustGiving link here.
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity Group has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
Integrity Print is proud to be sponsoring this year’s Outfield Festival in Midsomer Norton in August.
Outfield Festival is a family-friendly, one-day music festival. It is held to raise financial support for Midsomer Norton Cricket Club as well as bring together the community for a celebration of music and family fun. The event is held with multiple activities fit for all ages, including under 16’s silent disco, glitter and face painting, balloon modelling, crafts, and Under 5’s soft play areas.
The day’s music performances are filled with plenty of great acts to enjoy. This year’s headline act will be Scouting for Girls, supported by Gabriel Templar, Mesh, Irie Fire, and more special guests.
Keith Anderson, a key committee member for Outfield, and one of the festival’s organisers, comments:
“We’re now nearing our second festival after the first sell-out festival in 2019. Despite COVID delaying it 2 years running, we’re gaining momentum and have a bigger and better festival lined up for 2022. As part of the growth of the festival, we’re delighted to have RUH X (formerly Forever Friends) partnering with Outfield Festival and Integrity Print sponsoring the festival.
As the biggest local employer, it’s great to work with Integrity in providing a good quality original music festival putting money back into the local community in Midsomer Norton.”
Over the past two years, the events industry has been particularly hard-hit by the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, leaving venues empty, artists struggling, and fans unable to celebrate the things they love the most. Integrity is delighted to play a part in the revival of this summer’s festivals and help bring our local community together once more. As part of the sponsorship, Integrity will be providing a donation to help support Midsomer Norton Cricket Club, as well as some promotional materials.
Outfield Festival will take place on the Sunday 28th of August during the bank holiday weekend in August. You can buy tickets through the website.
Highlights from the 2019 Festival
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Being able to support local events in Midsomer Norton, in which we are based, is something Integrity has always been passionate about. We believe we can perform better as a team when Integrity’s people – colleagues, friends, and family – can all have the chance to enjoy themselves in fun gatherings such as Outfield. We will continue to further promote our message of positive community relationships through contributions such as this one.
Whether it is taking part in charity walks, sponsoring local sports teams, planting trees, fundraising for the NHS, or launching environmental initiatives, Integrity has always looked to make a valuable and positive contribution both locally and nationally. Stay tuned for more updates!
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