Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride participants are being challenged to ‘go the extra mile’ and use the event as a springboard for the Action 100 Bike Ride in August 2006. Action Medical Research, the charity behind the fundraiser, hopes to embrace the summer spirit which sees roughly 4000 people taking to the streets for Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride, and enrol some of the cyclists for their own challenge.

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READING, UK — Independent systems integrator, PSG Networks, has won and implemented an order from Lovell, the UK’s leading provider of affordable housing, for AlwaysON hosted IP telephony.  The order is for a 30 extension hosted IP telephony system which will serve a construction site at Yallops Yard in Bow, East London.

Using AlwaysON’s Hosted Telephony over the Lovell Cisco based network (LAN), PSG has been able to provide Lovell with improved internal communications, as well as reduced rate calls to suppliers and to its Tamworth headquarters. The overall phone bill for the site has reduced by at least 15%.  The system replaced a PBX which was not flexible enough and was running out of capacity.

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Claire Thompson, MD, Zed PR, will be addressing the next meeting of the North Berkshire Practitioners Group:

Date: Friday June 23, 2006

Time: 19.00 - 21.00

Venue: The Global Cafe (RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading.

For further information, contact Local Group Coordinator, Sonia Webster: northberkshiretherapists(@)yahoo.co.uk  (removing anti-spamming brackets) or t: 07984 407670   

Organisers of the Action 100 Bike Ride are celebrating a record breaking number of applications for this year’s fundraising cycle for Action Medical Research. Riders are signing up at such a rate that the charity has 100 more cyclists than at this stage of its campaign last summer. The organisers are still appealing for 600 more riders to register between now and August in order to meet the Silver Jubilee target they have set themselves.

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It’s “hip hip hooray” for charity ‘handle-bar helpers’ as Action Medical Research holds a riverside party to honour their fund-raising cyclists on Sunday 7th May 2006. The UK charity is thanking last summer’s Action 100 Bike Ride participants and helpers, who completed the annual pedal from Bristol and Bath to London. This year’s newly signed up riders will also be invited to join in for a small fee (£10) to help the Jubilee Year celebrations kick off in style.

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Zed PR has become the first UK PR consultancy to obtain ethical company status.

“We were audited to ensure that we met high standards,” said Claire Thompson, Director, Zed PR. “From our perspective, it is simply a declaration of intent.  We aim, for example, to ensure that all materials issued are of a standard that the media can rely on for accuracy and reliability.  For our clients, it means that we adopt open and honest practises.”

“Our staff and partners are offered very clear guidelines on expected behaviours, which makes life very simple because standards are explicit and designed for everyone’s benefit.”

Businesses offering products and services for small children are being offered the chance to master self-promotion in a special public relations seminar running on May 15th, 2006 in Reading. 

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Intrepid Ormskirk cyclist Grant Crawley loves a sporting challenge. For Grant, pedalling from London to Paris last July for UK charity Action Medical Research was not enough. This year he has signed up to the 100 mile Bristol to London cycle event known as the Action 100 Bike Ride – and it’s not just the challenge of a lifetime, but an investment in his medical future.

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In a quest to make svelte fundraising cyclists out of chocoholics, Easter egg aficionados are being urged to leap off the settee. For those who have piled on the pounds this Bank Holiday, the Action 100 Bike Ride in aid of pioneering charity Action Medical Research, provides the perfect incentive to get fit and raise money.

It takes roughly 15 minutes of cycling to burn 100 calories, or in chocolate units, about three after-dinner mints.

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Liverpool may be the home of the Beatles, but it is Grant Crawley, patient at the Fazakerley based Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, who’s asking for Help! this summer to support his efforts on behalf of UK charity, Action Medical Research. Grant, despite suffering from a rare illness called Multifocal Motor Neuropathy with Conduction Block, is supporting the charity by cycling its Silver Jubilee Action 100 Bike Ride from Bristol to London, and wants others to support him, or qualify for their own ‘tickets to ride’ by undertaking the challenge themselves.

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