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September 1st, 2010 - Student Loans MD talks about Lingfield Point, Darlington and Marchday.John recently met with Derek Ross, Managing Director of Student Loans Company to ask why SLC chose Lingfield Point as the home for its HQ in England, what his experience of the region has been and how the reality compares to his expectations.
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August 14th, 2010 - No.1 of Marchday’s Magnificent 7.We’ve had a lot of fun making 7 short films about how we try to deliver a better service to our customers at Lingfield Point in Darlington. We’ve called them the Magnificent Seven. Here’s the first one. We hope you enjoy it!
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August 7th, 2010 - Languedoc-Roussillon comes to W1!
On 17th September Cavendish Sq, London will be transformed into an outpost of Sud de France with sumptious food and wine on offer from producers of the region throughout the day. This is a great example of how we think the square could be used in the future with summer concerts and specialist food events adding to peoples’ enjoyment of the square.
We are talking to Westminster about how we can improve the square together but in the meantime we think these wonderful events will continue to bring the square back to life and give people another reason to visit the West End of London. For full details go to http://www.festival-suddefrance.com/Program.14.0.html.
August 2nd, 2010 - Grow Your Own!
The Grow Zone
The community allotments at Lingfield Point, Darlington are really starting to look good. As there’s a shortage of good allotments in the town we’ve worked in partnership with Friends of the Earth to find budding gardeners who want to grow their own and provided the land for them to do it.
Everybody is interested in where their food is produced and growing your own fruit and veg is the ultimate feel good experience. We’re creating a sustainable mixed community at Lingfield Point and permanent allotments will be just one of the life enhancing features on offer. One allotment keeper recently summed it up nicely;
‘Keeping allotments used to be the preserve of old men but over the last few years it’s become incredibly popular with young women. It’s becoming quite trendy with ageing sheds being replaced with pretty painted beach huts. I love being able to go to the allotment and collect vegetables for dinner straight off the plant; there’s nothing better.’
The allotments are available to all so now there’s no excuse for serving up second rate veg!
July 2nd, 2010 - The Marchday Peloton.
Sophie climbs.
Is it just us or is cycling everywhere you look these days? With the Tour de France kicking off tomorrow (and England out of the World Cup) it seems that pedal power is on everybody’s minds.
The Marchday teams at Lingfield Point, Darlington and New Lodge, Windsor have recently taken advantage of the Government’s ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme and have really caught the cycling bug in the process. So far Marchday have bought 8 bikes through the scheme with more in the pipeline. At Lingfield Point the Marchday Peloton can feature up to 7 riders on their regular Tuesday night rides out into Teesdale and Weardale and new ‘rouleurs’ are always welcome.
New Lodge manager Paul Buckley began riding in March and has already taken part in some grueling sportifs including the recent Chilterns 100, a hilly 100 mile course which he completed in 6:26 only four weeks after breaking his wrist in a cycling spill. He’s hard! Speaking of which, the Marchday cycling guru at Lingfield Point is (Hard) Colin who has inspired the boys and Sophie to amazing feats of endurance. Of course Sophie was a professional mountain bike rider so this is all a bit too easy for her.
So, do we cycle to work? Well…. sometimes…. but we all cycle lots, are enjoying every minute of it and feeling (and maybe even looking) better as a result – and that must be the result the Government is after – isn’t it?
