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    UK SIGN MAKER RUNS THE LONDON MARATHON

    Posted by Robert Lambie on 3 March 2004 at 01:56

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    UK SIGN MAKER RUNS THE LONDON MARATHON
    Resident sign maker Danny Smalldridge will run the forthcoming Flora London Marathon on the 18th of April 2004 for charity. The charity Danny will be running for is the Neonatal Intensive Care Ubit Appeal. In which he hopes to raise £2004 for this deserving charity. uksignboards.com would like to ask “any” visitors to the site to dig deep & donate some money to help achieve Danny’s goal.

    For more info on the charity you can find them on http://www.royallondonchildren.org

    Any sponsors/donations can be sent to:-

    Danny Smalldridge
    Signworks South East
    203 oxlow Lane
    Dagenham
    Essex
    RM10 7YA

    All cheques should be made out to ‘The Children’s Fund’

    I would like to add that Danny has offered to run the marathon
    In a uksignboards.com t-shirt, of which he will have his picture taken crossing the finish line completely knackered of course & sporting his t-shirt.. What a picture!
    I am sure we will all love to see it.. I know I would. 😉 😆 😆

    With this in mind I would like to add a bit more to this and keep the momentum
    Of this post going by starting a small, fun competition to run with it. (Pardon the pun)
    I would like anyone on the site to design the t-shirt Danny will run in.
    The t-shirt will be white in colour and must have uksignboards.com on the front and rear, easily read. Full details of this will follow by Thursday evening.

    In the mean time I would like to ask any sign makers on the site that can make a “one off” t-shirt for this event, to contact me by email or PM.
    If you think you would be interested in making one for Danny please contact me with an idea of a price & turnaround. The t-shirt must be of fair quality and be printed in whatever design the boards come up with. (Within reason of course)
    I would be interested also in guidelines to submit for folk wishing to take part in designing.

    Suppliers please read!
    If you are a supplier & think that you could raise some money via this site by auctioning one or more of your products for Danny’s charity, (the site in return will give you full publicity throughout. please contact me by email. I am all ears..

    Anyone else got any ideas.. Please get in touch!

    .

    signworks.se replied 21 years, 7 months ago 7 Members · 30 Replies
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  • Kevin.Beck

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 07:55

    I`ve got something I don`t use that could be auctioned off.

    “Font Detective” software. You scan in the font you want to find, click on a couple of the letters, press go and the sofware goes through your system and finds the font or the closest fonts available.

    it cost £50 ish from signmaster. comes with all the instructions etc.

    any bids?

    all for charity folks. 😛

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 10:22

    brilliant becky.. sounds great mate, thank you (hot)

    i will sort something out better regarding bids and order.. so anyone wanting to place a bid in the meantime pm/email becky or myself.
    its just a pity the new auction forum hasnt been completed yet or this would have been perfect launch for it.. oh well.. 🙄

    i will announce/get things in orer by thursday if all goes well..

    keep any ideas coming 😉

  • signworks.se

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 10:24

    Cheers Becky,
    Great start, many thanks

    All the best
    Danny 😀

  • Brian Hays

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 12:10

    You can have a copy of our Vehicle Library, Graphics2go & Safety Signs cd’s for auction. Good luck Danny!

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 12:30

    brian… bloody brill mate.. 😉

  • signworks.se

    Member
    3 March 2004 at 13:33

    Brian,
    Thats very generous mate, many thanks.

    Cheers
    Danny 😀

  • Dazzel

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 09:30

    I will supply 100 Bsau145d acrylic adhesive faced and 50 white – 50 yellow bsau145d reflectives – Oblong size – To make number plates. Including delivery anywhere in uk.

    Go danny, wish i had the energy.

    Paul 😛

  • signworks.se

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 09:43

    cheers Paul! 😀

    any joy on those white decals?

    Danny

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 17:55

    excellent paul.. brill mate.. thank you for joining in.
    😉 (hot)

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 19:08

    Robert
    I have sent PM regarding shirt, my place is across the road from Danny so will talk to him to decide on best type of shirt etc. I use easycut which cannot overlap colour onto colour which is probably the only real restriction & that it is a vector file suitable for Flexi.
    Best of luck Dan speak to you soon

    Kev

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 19:48

    sounds great mate.. can it be printed.. i mean can there be say a blend/digital print. not saying the design will be.. just so we know how restricted the design will/wont be.

    thanks mate 😉

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 19:56

    Robert
    if i use easycut then no blend is possible, easycut is basically just a textile vinyl so if you can do it with vinyl’ then i should beable to produce with easycut. Second option is to do a inkjet print onto the shirt the feel isn’t so good but allows anything that you can do with your normal desktop printer. One point to bear in mind is if Danny has to wear a number needs to be considered if the uksignboards is to be seen

    Kevin

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 20:02

    yep not a problem mate.. what about multiple olours next to each other?

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 20:11

    Robert,
    Colours next to each other yes, within reason due to easycut being on solid application sheet registration can become problem. However another thought subject to colours may do in Flock which allows colours to be overlapped and due to application film being transparent no real registration problems. Out of the different options i am sure we can find away to accomadate any design.

    Kevin

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    4 March 2004 at 23:50

    Ok folks..
    Currently we have a fair amount of goods to auction off to help raise funds for danny’s charity. It is as follows…

    Font Detective, software

    from becky @ cottage promotions ltd

    Vehicle Library software
    Graphics 2go software
    Safety Signs software
    Including delivery anywhere in uk.

    From brian at impact graphic solutions
    http://www.impactgs.co.uk/

    100 Bsau145d acrylic adhesive faced
    50 white – 50 yellow bsau145d reflectives – Oblong size

    To make number plates
    Including delivery anywhere in uk.

    From paul @ Dazzel Limited
    http://www.uknumberplates.com

    if anyone else has anything else sign related that may auction well then please submit it. its going to a good cause!

    Again, if you want to submit some money then please do.. again. Anything at all is more than welcome.. dig deep.. go on go on go on!

    All going well, I will make a post on Sunday.. and thank you

  • signworks.se

    Member
    5 March 2004 at 08:40

    A big thankyou to all who have contributed so far.

    Any one fancy joining me in a RUN NEXT YEAR? 😀 😮 😉

    Cheers
    Danny

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 17:38

    Rob
    have we had any t-shirt designs yet, how is the judging going to be done etc

    Kev

  • Kevin.Beck

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 18:14

    I`ve always wanted to run a marathon,

    but – it`s my knee, snipper bullet, can`t talk about it too much, brings back bad memorys.

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 18:30

    hi danny.. i know its a long way off and you want take me serious just now. buuuut! if you are doing it next year, can you let me know details in plety time before it .. i would seriously consider it. 😮 😉

    t-shirt design, nop sorry. i will make a post thursday evening asking for designs to be submitted with rules etc.

    judging? well does anyone have any ideas? im all ears. its not very fair for me to judge.. any ideas on how to pick judges to join me?
    😕

  • Brian Hays

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 18:43

    Do you not have to apply years in advance? I thought they had many times the number of applications than they had places every year.

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 19:52

    Rob
    What about the judges being a group of suppliers who have put forward the auction items

    Kev

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 19:59

    thats a good idea kev..
    what do you think brian, kev & paul? does this mean i have to sit on the fence 😳 😆 😆

    you guys decide. but that sounds pretty fair to me. 😉

    veiws anyone? 😀

  • Brian Hays

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 21:38

    I am up for being a judge, if I can be trusted with a vote 😆 😆

  • Nicola McIntosh

    Member
    10 March 2004 at 21:43

    thumbs up from me!!

    Nik

  • Dazzel

    Member
    11 March 2004 at 07:30

    That’s fine with me. Makes a change from being in the other box 😛
    speeding thats all !!

    Paul

  • signworks.se

    Member
    11 March 2004 at 09:47

    Rob I can guarentee you a place for next year now if fancy it!.
    I always get a place as a ‘gold bond’ runner which means you are guarenteed a place in return for raising a certain amount of money, hence my figure 0f £2004.

    If you do want to give it a go let me know and i’ll sort it, i’ll even give you a training schedule.

    Cheers
    Danny

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    11 March 2004 at 10:41

    im nervous now danny 😮 , but yeh im upfor it. can you send me some stuff on it or do you know a website i can read up on whats involved etc?
    sounds good fun.. well maybe 😕 .. many miles is it? im thinking 2? 😆
    mah im kidding but how many?

    well if becky is up for it then you guys are the judges 😉
    does that mean i can design too 😳 😳 😉

    well ill make a proper post tonight and we can take it from there.
    anyone else with ideas, suggestions feel free 😉

  • signworks.se

    Member
    11 March 2004 at 12:58

    No problem rob, i;ll get some info together for you.

    As regards to mileage, the marathon itself is 26.2 miles and the training schedule should have you covering 300+ miles in the 6 months before race day! (<(

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    11 March 2004 at 18:50

    cheers danny.. 😉

    quote :

    26.2 miles

    sooo… you up for a pint after it mate.. 😉 i bet we will be thirsty 😮

  • signworks.se

    Member
    12 March 2004 at 12:12

    definately!!!, mind you, thats if we can make the walk to the bar 😀

    Cheers
    Danny

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