ABD IS THE LEAD SPONSOR FOR ONE OF THE BIGGEST FAMILY OUTDOOR CELEBRATIONS IN WILTSHIRE!

The Devizes Carnival celebrates its 100th anniversary this year and ABD is proud to be the lead sponsor!

Devizes has a very long tradition of fairs, markets and carnivals...

The Devizes Carnival and International Street Festival is an exciting mix of traditional and contemporary festival styles.  It is the biggest community event in the town's calendar and one of the largest outdoor celebrations in Wiltshire. The festival consists of 2 weeks of events held in late August and early September and includes the Devizes International Street Festival, Picnic in the Park, Confetti Battle and the Carnival Procession together with a host of other supporting events.

Family Fun Events....

Picnic in the Park is a free event which has featured a range of key musicians playing live music to people who have brought along their own picnics to listen to and enjoy.

"Last year we had the biggest crowd ever, with 500 people attending. It's a fun and social event and Hillworth Park is a lovely venue."  Gazette and Herald Newspaper.

The Confetti Battle is a popular local tradition that has been taking place for many years standing, and one in which everyone can take part in. Great fun!

The Devizes Carnival Parade is a spectacular event and promises to be even more spectacular and a very special celebration this year, marking its 100th anniversary.  It starts on the green and goes through the town centre.  A free community costume making workshop has been available to all in the run up to the carnival.

ABD is the lead sponsor this year for these exciting events and is proud to be supporting the community!

Picnic in the Park - 19 August 2012
Comedy Night - 23 August 2012
Street Festival - 26 and 27 August 2012
Carnival Procession - 1 September 2012

For more information -  www.devizescarnival.co.uk

CONGRATULATIONS TO JANE DALE!

ABD PRIZE DRAW WINNER

Many congratulations to Jane Dale who won the ABD prize draw recently.

ABD prize draw takes place every 6 months and randomly selects a questionnaire that a client has completed.

Lucky winner Jane Dale was absolutely delighted to win an M & S gift card, especially as she has just moved house!

"As always, thanks to you and your firm for providing a service of a consistently high standard".  Jane Dale.

The next ABD prize draw will take place in December 2012.

A TOUGH CHALLENGE ACHIEVED..

EVERY PENNY COUNTED!

A CATCHUP WITH CATHERINE AFTER HER RACE

Many congratulations and well done to Catherine Cole (based at ABD’s Calne Office) who proudly handed over a cheque to Claire Kelly, Head of Charity Services for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.  The cheque was for the sum of £632.00.

(Left to right; Claire Kelly, Head of Charity Services for WAA, Steve Riddle, Paramedic for WAA and Catherine Cole, ABD Solicitors.)

As Catherine handed over the cheque, it was a time to briefly reminisce all the hard training she had done in the winter months prior to this race which took place on 27 May 2012 in Edinburgh.  Catherine had fulfilled one of her achievements - running the Edinburgh Marathon…

The Edinburgh Marathon started in May 2003. It is considered to be a “fast and flat” run over the traditional distance of 42.195 kilometres. This course was voted the fastest marathon run in the UK by Runners World Magazine 2008. This year more than 23,000 runners from 100 countries took part!  Organisers provided some 131,085 bottles of water along the 26.2mile route and another 29,000 or so at the finish!

Most of Catherine’s training had been done in the winter months, so it was quite a shock for her to be running in glorious sunshine and near to 25 degrees! She achieved what she had set out to do though, and finished in a fantastic time of 4 hours and 44 minutes with her friend Caroline Catt who had also trained with her. Catherine says that she could not have run it without Caroline’s support and it was a joint achievement.

Catherine and Caroline wanted to raise funds for Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Wiltshire Air Ambulance is a unique charity whose sole aim is to save the lives of people living in Wiltshire…

DID YOU KNOW?

• Air Ambulance helicopter MD EXPLORER is 12 years old.
• The Unit has been in operation for about 22 years. There are 5 paramedics, 4 police observers, and 3 pilots.
• Wiltshire has the only dedicated Air Ambulance service that can fly at night.
• It can reach anywhere in the county within 11 minutes.
• It is NOT government funded.
• It is funded only by community fundraising and donations.
• Due to its specialist equipment it can land ANYWHERE.

The daily cost to keep the Wiltshire Air Ambulance flying and saving lives is £2000.

The annual cost to keep the Wiltshire Air Ambulance flying and saving lives is £700,000

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

In order to help keep this critical life saving service going, they need support. Remember it is NOT government funded.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Click on this link www.wiltshireaireambulance.co.uk  to find out more about fundraising activities and how you could help.

Many congratulations to Catherine and also to Caroline who equally could not have achieved this without Catherine’s support and raised over £300 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Well done to you both – a real team effort!

What is Catherine’s next challenge? We will have to wait and see!

GOLF CUP CHALLENGE!

AWDRY, DOUGLAS AND EVERETT v STRAKERS 

It was that annual time of year again, when grey blustery showers of rain set in (english summer!) and the Golf Cup Challenge commenced......

The venue was Castle Combe Golf Club, and the hosts were Strakers Estate Agents!

Bacon butties and coffee were the first challenge of the day.  The rains then lifted albeit weather still grey, and the game began!

There were 4 x 4 balls, with Awdry, Douglas and Everett winning 3 games to 1. The "longest drive" competition was won by Ben Fitzgibbon (Strakers) and the "nearest pin" competition was won by Jo Phelan (ABD). A good days worth of golf which everybody thoroughly enjoyed.

As day turned into night everybody tucked into their delicious evening fare in the dining room of Castle Combe Clubhouse ending with prize giving and carriages home at around 9.30pm.

Strakers won the cup last year, Awdry, Douglas and Everett won it back this year, the question is - who will win it next year??!

We will have to wait and see....

ABD HITS THE SPOT WITH MARLBOROUGH

 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ WEEKEND

Marlborough International Jazz was founded in 1986 and takes place annually in many venues across the town of Marlborough. The festival took place from Friday 13th – Sunday 15th inclusive with a fantastic line-up of jazz music extravaganza!

“100 performances in 20 venues over 3 days”

Bands from 18 countries performed in 20 different locations from noon until after midnight in different venues around Marlborough over the exciting 3 day event.

As a Main Sponsor, ABD have been supporting this festival for 5 years and are proud to be sponsors of this popular event which has attracted people from all over the country to attend. Despite the rainy weather, f igures look to show that this year’s international event looks like being the biggest and the best!  In an interview with Marlborough News on line, ABD Partner Andrew Douglas said “The festival’s gone from strength to strength and they say this may be the best! All things being well, we shall be back here next time for the sixth year.”

ABD PRIORY MARQUEE – A FULL HOUSE!

ABD Priory Marquee based in Priory Park was once again jam packed with a FULL HOUSE audience!  By Saturday night 1,500 people had attended the marquee to hear live performances. It was a sell out!!

GRAND FINALE – “FEELING GOOD”

The ABD Priory Marquee where Clare Teal gave a grand finale rapturous performance on Sunday afternoon demanded two encores after Clare backed by her fantastic trio, came to the end of her “Feeling Good” show to a full house audience!

Clare Teal with fantastic trio, drummer- Steve Rushton, double bassist - Simon Little and pianist- Grant Windsor.

FANASTIC!

To read more about the interview with ABD Partner Andrew Douglas and Marlborough Jazz www.marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk 

ABDCARE AND BREWIN DOLPHIN

LAUNCH LONGTERM CARE SEMINARS

A POPULAR CHOICE!

abdcare (a division of ABD Solicitors) in association with Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s largest “Private Client Investment Managers” have launched a succession of seminars for the year 2012.  These seminars address the issues surrounding later life planning and how you or your loved ones may be affected should long term care be needed.  This has proved to be an extremely popular choice, with a high attendance level of people taking on board this current affairs issue.

For more information go to www.abdcare.co.uk

THE TEAM

Left to right; Tony Awdry (ABD) Myles Palmer Brewin Dolphin), Alex Minoudis (Brewin Dolphin), Andrew Douglas (ABD), Simon Lofthouse (ABD) and Matt Guilaume (Brewin Dolphin).

NEXT SEMINAR - Monday 16 July 2012 at Urchfont Manor, Urchfont, near Devizes.

TO BOOK A FREE SPACE – www.abdcare.co.uk OR telephone 01380 722311

ABD IS PROUD TO BE A KEY SPONSOR OF DEVIZES FESTIVAL AND TO HOST THE LEAD EVENT …

“AN EVENING WITH JOHN HUMPHRYS”

As Key Sponsors of Devizes Festival 2012 generally, ABD were delighted to be sponsoring this event in particular, and with invited guests enjoyed drinks and canapés in the The Bear Hotel, Devizes beforehand. “An evening with John Humphreys” took place in The Corn Exchange and was enjoyed by many people. It was virtually a “full house”!

John Humphrys – author, journalist, broadcaster and presenter of radio and television – in particular BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, also he is currently the host of BBC 2’S television quiz show “Mastermind” gave a wide ranging talk last night about his life in the news, his books, politics and much much more! He even answered questions from the audience!

“A great evening enjoyed by all!”


 

Left to right; ABD Partners - Roger Chadwick, Alex David and Andrew Douglas with John Humphreys (centre),  Alistair Everett (ABD Partner) and Tim Hotchkiss, Commercial Property Lawyer in The Corn Exchange, Devizes 16 June 2012.