CharityCycle

Team Rubio Monocoat UK and Ireland are helping to raise money for local Irish charities! Richard, Stuart, Niall and Olivia will be cycling the Ring of Kerry a 179km bike ride, plus our CEO Wim and CFO Valerie will be joining us from Belgium.

All the money we make will go towards these local Irish charities:

Breakthrough Cancer Research

Comfort for Chemo

CRITICAL – Emergency Medical Response

Kerry Mountain Rescue

Valentia Community Hospital

Ring of Kerry Charity Fund

This is how YOU can get involved. We'd love for you to donate - no matter how big or small! Every penny counts, so thank you!

The first quarter has been very busy with lots of calls and working with our partners to reach as many people as possible I am still pushing for some new partners in Belfast, Donegal and the south east but we have established a new partner in the Cork region with details to follow shortly!

A big emphasis on our Clean & Care range is still ongoing as I find more and more people are going with an oiled finish in both furniture and flooring and it all has to be cared for correctly! We are still available for training sessions in our Armagh showroom so please do get in touch to organise it I will be concentrating on supporting our partners in the next quarter with trade/open days and some good College training days involved too

Over the past few months the northern region has welcomed several new stockists with Davies Timber in Birmingham, Bruach in Edinburgh, Scottish Wood in Dunfermline and Trade Secrets in Aberdeen choosing to partner with Rubio Monocoat and help us expand our ever-growing resale network

Make sure to keep your eyes peeled for details of launch events and trade days at Rubio Monocoat stockists in your area across the next couple of months

Also, we've just added Albion Timber to the Rubio Monocoat family, so be sure to get to them to check out our amazing products!

As Q1 is now behind it is good to sit back and reflect on what a positive start to the year it was The South is proud to host a strong partner network and the support they have shown over this period has been nothing short of amazing With some great projects in the pipeline this will only get stronger

My day to day has been focused on new trade and I have had the pleasure of meeting some very talented people from kitchen manufactures, cabinet makers, joiners and design experts It is always great showing our amazing products to people for the first time and see how blown away they are

In Q2 I look forward to attending and demonstrating at events such as makers central, trade decorator live and you might also see me at Clerkenwell design week