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Editor’s Comments Brackley Soapbox Derby Service With A Smile!

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Team Effort See’s tunning Start To The Season Accounting Software Brackley Come Dine With Me 400 Colourful Year’s and Still Flourishing Summer Photography Gardening In March Events Elliot Sandy in Aerial Action at Halifax BIB Competition WIN £20 Index

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Welcome...

MAY ISSUE 2013

It’s nearly carnival time!

The aim of the monthly Brackley In Business Magazine is to support businesses in order that the local community can flourish. www.brackleyinbusiness.co.uk inbusinessmagazines@gmail.com Office: 0844 6933228 Home: 01386 861478 Mobile: 07899 757473 ADVERTISING Kate Martin FEATURES EDITOR Jen Oakton NEXT ISSUE COPY DATE 15th May 2013 © 2013. All artwork and copy appearing in this publication is copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

All information published is correct according to those who supplied it and no responsibility is taken if it is not. Care is taken to ensure all advertisements are truthful and no liability is accepted for errors or emissions. The right to refuse advertisements is reserved. The use of this publication for canvassing, direct marketing or any other activity apart from sourcing local goods and services is strictly prohibited.

Brackley’s carnival committee is working hard to ensure that this year’s event is a great success, whatever the weather (though the sun has been ordered I’m told!).

This year, Carnival takes place on 8th June and the theme is Carnival of Colour. The procession is always a highlight of Brackley Carnival and the organizers want to make it bigger, better and brighter this year. Anyone can enter - large groups, small groups, community groups, private companies… it’s a fun way to promote your group or business!

The procession starts at 11am and follows a route from Brackley Sawmills to the carnival site at Magdalen School in the High Street.

So get your thinking caps on and your procession registration form submitted. Visit www.brackleycommunitycarnival.org.uk for more information.

Happy Planning!

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BRACKLEY SOAPBOX DERBY Sunday June 16th 2013 Now a firm favourite annual event within the town the 2013 Brackley Soapbox Derby will take place on Sunday June 16th on the High Street. From 2.00pm onwards soapboxes will run on the main road down the hill to the finish line at the Market Square car park. The race is open is open to two classes, juniors under 15 years of age and adults 15 and over. Trophies and prizes will be awarded for the fastest three in each class and a separate

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trophy will be presented to the soapbox judged to be the best turned out cart. To underline the popularity of the event entries have already been received from various parts of the country and enthusiastic local soapbox builders are urged to get their entries in as soon as possible.

This year Brackley Soapbox will be supporting Katherine House Hospice and the opportunity to win a drive in the under 15 category in a soapbox being run by the charity will be raffled with the winner challenging for the top prize. Details on entry will be available from the soapbox website soon.

Brackley Soapbox Derby is a family event and everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy a great afternoon. Snacks, drinks and other attractions will also be accessible in the Market Square during the day. Entries are still available and further information including entry forms can be obtained on the soapbox website www.brackleysoapbox.org or by nfo@brackleysoapbox.org . e mail to in

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Sell your Home!

If you are thinking about a house move, then you’ll need a valuation on your current property. But it’s really important to take some time to present your house well so you can you maximize your home’s value?

Here are some ideas on how to make your home look its best and hopefully achieve the valuation you need.

First of all it helps if you can let go of your emotional connection to your home. This will help you to see it as a product to sell rather than your home. Then begin to remove all the personal items such as family photographs.

Potential buyers need to imagine their own items in the house rather than be distracted by yours.

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bookshelves, unnecessary kitchen equipment, cuddly toys from the kid’s bedrooms, and general nic nacs – just think of this as making a headstart on your packing!

Put labeled boxes in the garage or rent a storage unit.

Clear surfaces so everything is off of kitchen worktops, dressing tables, and sideboards. Then replace some with just one or two carefully chosen items. Don’t just shove things into drawers and cupboards – buyers like to look in those so show that you take good care of your things (as that implies you take care of your home too) by arranging things neatly.

Attend to any minor repairs now, especially things like dripping taps and burned-out light bulbs.

If your rooms are painted bright colours, consider neutralizing them!

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Accounting Software At some point all business owners will have to get to grips with accounting software. From use as a bookkeeping tool to complete Vat returns, creating annual accounts or simply to raise sales invoices. Accounting software now comes in 3 main forms. Basic Excel spreadsheets, ‘off the shelf’ packages and the modern, online ‘cloud’ based systems.

Choosing a solution that is best suited to your needs is essential. Once chosen, it is then a priority to ensure that you are getting the most out of your system using the least amount of time.

For many small businesses, using a combination of Excel and Word to run the business works well.

This is a perfectly fine approach and if set up right, Excel can certainly rival a lot of accounting software packages, whilst automatically creating a cumulative total of spend/income allowing for Vat calculations to be carried out at relative ease.

For the slightly larger businesses an accounts package is preferable. Good accounts software will allow you to easily raise and keep track of sales invoices for each customer, enabling searches by business and days outstanding. It is of course also possible to log all expenditure and associated Vat to be able to create Vat returns and also view profit and loss accounts for specific date ranges. Bank statements can also be imported to ensure that all income and expenditure is captured.

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Many accountants are now promoting this new solution to clients, allowing them to work remotely whilst the client continues to use the software for day to day activities. This allows real time information on profitability and cash flow to be available to the client, helping them to better understand and grow their business.

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Who will become our Brackley Come Dine with Me champion?!

Earlier this year, local residents James Butler, Claire Cutting and Emma Cadden teamed up to find a way to raise money for local charity Brackley Food Bank and The Katie Piper Foundation. Together, and with a little advice from the Channel 4 television show team, they came up with ‘Brackley Come Dine with Me’.

If you are interested in taking part in the Brackley-based charity version Come Dine with Me sees amateur chefs competing against each other by hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each participant awards a score to that night’s host and the person with the highest score after all the meals have taken place is awarded a cash prize.

If you are interested in taking part in this charity version (untelevised!), you need firstly to find a partner (husband/wife, friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, parent, child (over the age of 16) etc).

At least one of you must be over the age of 21. Each couple will be matched with two other pairs and then the fun begins! Each pair hosts an evening, deciding on the venue, menu, budget and entertainment themselves.

Themed nights are permitted (even encouraged!). You could go glam or sophisticated, student style or over-the-top – the choice is yours!

required to give a score out of 5 for each of the following categories - Hospitality, Quality of Food, Entertainment, Overall atmosphere/effort, giving a total score out of 20. There will be prizes for the top three teams.

This promises to be an event to remember! If you’d like to take part, visit www.brackleywines.co.uk or call 01280 706658 for an application form.

Be quick – registration is open NOW and all meals should take place during May and June.

Following the evening, individual guests will be

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The season starts on 1st May with dancing the sun up at 5.30am on Brackley Market Place, followed by breakfast and beer in the Red Lion! Why not go and see them? Better still, why not go and join them?

400 colourful years and still flourishing.

For further details of their activities, visit their website www.thebrackleymorrismen.org. uk or call Stephen on 07764 799947

The Brackley Morris Men have a history in the town extending back through four centuries.

They were associated with the presentation of a silver communion plate to the Parish Church in 1623.

In 1766 the Oxford Journal wrote of how their leader ‘having been somewhat insolent as well as troublesome in playing the fool, had the misfortune to get himself committed to Brideswell as a vagrant’.

In 1866 the Banbury Guardian reported how the fool ‘was very active with his javelin, a cow’s tail and bladder’ and how he ‘displayed much witless buffoonery’.

They’re still as popular as ever today, with more invitations to dance at fetes and celebrations than they’re able to support. New dancers and musicians are always welcomed as an essential way of ensuring that this fine local tradition continues to thrive.

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Spring has been so reluctant to show her face, but I imagine the warm weather has well and truly kicked in by now. It’s time to get those jobs done but of course lets also get some well-earned relaxation!

Looking Good Of the countless plants about to bloom, here are a couple of worthy performers: Geranium psilostemmon has dainty purplish cranesbill flowers in early summer. They will grow to a height of around 90cm, and will add colour and movement to a border, in sun or light shade.

Campanula poscharskyana has striking blue flowers above small green leaves. This useful evergreen will cover the ground and is fully hardy Kitchen Garden Numerous extra jobs this month. Remove runners from strawberries. Put straw or mats down to protect the new fruit. Congested raspberry canes can be thinned out to allow better air circulation and healthier plants. Net brassicas to protect from birds, but check regularly that no animals are caught up.

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A run of four away games brought consecutive goal-less draws followed by back-toback wins to see Brackley well placed for the final run-in to a long hard season. The visit to Workington was one of the longest round trips in the whole league and falling on a Tuesday evening was a trial of endurance with the coach arriving back in Brackley shortly after 4am! With just a handful of matches to play Saints are odds on for a top five finish – a remarkable achievement in the club’s first ever season at this level. This would qualify Saints to contest the play-offs for an unlikely place in the Football Conference!

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