14-01-10 BBC One
- So You Think You Can Dance featuring Malvern bench

Our Malvern teak bench was shown in 'So You Think You Can Dance' on BBC1 in Januray 2010. Our teak benches are robust and strong enough to withstand whatever you or mother nature can dish out.
click to see So You Think You Can Dance featuring our Malvern bench

24-11-09 free pin up calendar

"would you sponsor me £100 for me to take my clothes off for a calendar?", now thats a question i don't get asked every day. I happened to be at a drinks party hosted in a Stratford upon Avon art gallery, the lady i question was young, pretty and confident, naturally i couldn't refuse the offer. We exchanged business cards and Hannah told me about her plan for a WI lite Calendar Girls style Calendar for 2010, i would be sponsoring one month, with the proceeds going to The Stratford Hostice. Now the Calendar has been printed, i am thinking of ways to help sell as many of these Calendars as possible to raise money for this good cause. £1 from each purchase goes to the Shakespeare Hospice. I have bought so far 20 calendars and I am giving them away with every bench order.

14-09-09 warwick round table - thunderball

It has been an honour to serve as President of the Warwick and District Round Table this year, we organized a ball themed on James Bond, to raise funds for the "make a wish" childrens charity. Everyone from work attended with their partners, which was great. We had a number of fundraising events during the night, "bond or baddy" elimination game, sale of meal vouchers and charity auction. Thank you all for your support in raising £2800 for "make-a-wish". I would like to thank my local the boot inn for donating a meal for two with wine for the meal vouchers. We donated a Fatboy beanbag to the raffle which raised £105, thank you to my daughter Hannah who modelled it and succeeded in pushing up the price

17-02-09 extreme memorial benches

We have combined a delivery to the lake district with a few days holiday with the family. We walked up to Blea tarn above the village of Boot in Eskdale. Walking up and down the fells an idea formed in my mind, it may come to nothing, but i would like to share it with you. Would customers be interested in memorial bench installations at some extreme locations in the UK? We could combine a weekends walking with the installation of a bench in memory of a friend or family member, perhaps at the location which you enjoyed together. These last few days we have seem some benches in the valleys but none at higher altitude, the benches have also been made of softwood and appear to be in a poor standard of repair. If you would like to discuss this possibility with me, email me at john@4memorialbench.co.uk

15-02-09 buy now, beat the price increase

We have seen the steep decline in the value of the UK pound in the last quarter of 2008 and this has continued this year.
The benches from 4memorialbench.co.uk are imported from Thailand and Vietnam and are paid for in US Dollars. This means that as the pound falls against the dollar, the higher the price to import the goods into the UK. For example a $300 bench purchased last year at a rate of 1.9 dollars to the pound would have cost us £157.89, the same bench at the current exchange rate of 1.45 dollars to the pound will cost us £206.89. This means that exchange rate price inflation for us is 32% for our imported benches.
If the exchange rate stays at this level for the next month our prices will have to increase.
We are holding 2008 prices for now because we still have stock left from 2008, when this runs out and new stock has to be paid for, our prices will have to increase.
Our opinion of government statements that they expect inflation to stay low is incorrect. We have a balance of payments deficit, we import more that we export, imports are paid for by buying dollar and euro currencies and the pound is trading at low levels against both of these currencies.
Lasted government ideas of "printing money" will only make this situation worse.
In our opinion there is no better time to buy a teak bench, we look forward to talking to you soon.

08-02-09 naked wines offer

4memorialbench.co.uk will issue you with a voucher code and password on the receipt
page when you place an order for one of our memorial benches through this site.
Full terms and conditions available through www.nakedwines.com
£25 to spend NOW on Any of our wines worth £64.99 or more
NEXT DAY delivery as standard

04-02-09 the big freeze !

We are sorry that some of our deliveries were cancelled this week, however we were all in work as normal.
My daughters were at home due to schools being closed, its not often we have enough snow in warwickshire to build a snowman.

20-12-08 christmas celebrations

we challenged the staff of Kingdom Teak to a karting race, we won both the individual and team trophies after drafting in our own "stig", who can be revealed as Paul Brown from Placement UK.

26-11-08 vietnam business trip

my first trip to vietnam to source new suppliers and products, 4 hr drive from saigon to see factory in the Mykong delta the roads can be a bit hairy at times, Apocalypse Now nightclub is famous in Saigon, The Caravelle Hotel buffet at lunchtime was recommended to me by an american vietnam war veteran i met, he was not wrong. I remember the Singapore spicy crab followed by strawberries with cream.

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14-01-10 BBC One - So You Think You Can Dance featuring Malvern bench