2010 – annual report

Contents

The Board

Finance

Research and development

Travel

Sport

Recreation and leisure

Ethics and sustainability

Meet the board...

We’re a family firm.

Managing director - Ian

And the Managing Director’s PA

Creative Director (Media) - Jane

Fangirl!

Director of Recreation and Leisure - Neil

Head of HR - Dark Star

Doing what all HR professionals do – as little as possible. Never answers telephone or emails.

Pest control officer - Ruddles

Please nobody mention the guinea pig.

Finance

• The world of work

• Property portfolio

• New acquisitions

In the library world

The daily routineSpeaking about it at the CILIP RDA Briefing in March

Other income was generated by:

Ian working the doorsteps for IpsosMoriJane bun-slinging in Simmons the Bakers (and volunteering in the Oxfam bookshop)Neil occasionally refereeing

The property portfolio

Bank End A crash in our own front garden

Be afraid

Be very afraid – Neil is learning to drive. This is the new (old) car for him to learn to drive in

Research and development

The proud Author

With the book wot Shakespeare would have wrote if he had got out more – edited highlights from 250 issues of the CUFC-LB fanzine

A summer of exam successes

• 3 A2 passes for Jane (media, English and drama)

• 3 AS passes for Neil (media, drama and politics)

• 1 GCSE for Heather, after several years of evening classes (Spanish)

Jane’s yearbook entry...

Jane leaves school

This is her Prom frock – eeh, she scrubs up well! (Though Ruddles doesn’t look very impressed)

Travel at home

• A few days for Heather and Ian in Teignmouth

• The round of university open days: Worcester, Chester, Chatham, Winchester, Bournemouth, Northampton

• (and Jane is off for a girls’ weekend in Bath immediately after Christmas)

Teignmouth

Travel abroad

Barcelona - February

Malaga (and the World Cup) - July

Jane in Corfu

This was the post-exam thrash (with octopus)

Florence - October

Sport

Ian continued to follow Carlisle United

Neil keeps fit in his own way

And played football

Neil’s Sunday team, 2009-2010

What a splendid bunch of athletes - and their manager

Neil at Presentation evening

Player of the Season!

Look at the state of those shoes...

Recreation and leisure

Meeting the famous

Jane and Neil with Stan Bowles

Round and about

At the theatre At the races

Ethics and sustainability

Grandma’s productive garden

...while ours grew fungi

And that was about it for us in 2010

We hope you had a good year too and wish you