from you to me have been selected as one of 15 promising young businesses from across the UK shortlisted for the final of the Local Business Accelerators (LBA) Award.One business will go on to be crowned overall winner and claim a prize package which includes mentoring from Dragon Deborah Meaden. Deborah said: "Very many congratulations to all the businesses on...

It’s not every day you get invited for afternoon tea in London. Our invitation arrived this week. Our lovely friends at Spabreaks.com have created the first Women’s Wellness Week with the message #bekindtoyou, to raise awareness and discussions about women’s health and wellbeing, encouraging us all to be a little kinder to ourselves.In the lead up to Women’s Wellness Week...

You may know that we work closely with a UK Gift Trade publication called Gift Focus Magazine where we have regular features on our current and upcoming products and campaigns.One other thing we do is for Neil to write an Answer to the Questions that are posed to the magazine in the area of People related topics ...You can see more about Gift Focus on their...

Dear Son,                                                                              10thJuly 2012Thank you so much for the Dear Dad, from you to me journal that you gave to me for my birthday. I was touched that you were interested in finding out about my life story, particularly as we don’t get the chance to spend much time talking to each other these days. Your life is so...

With Father's Day on Sunday 16th June, I wanted to express what Dads can mean to us.This photo is of my Dad who inspired me to set up the from you to me business and I wish he was still with us so that I could celebrate this Father's Day with him.I am now a Dad myself … and love it...

I am delighted to share that we have just been picked as the runner-up as Small Business of the Year in our local county Wiltshire's Business Awards.The Awards ceremony, organised by Newsquest Wiltshire, was held at Center Parcs’ Longleat Forest holiday venue, near Warminster, with the local business community coming together to celebrate the successes of the last 12 months.According...

Margaret Young at our stockist, The Paperie, is our guest blogger this week. This week being National Stationery Week Margaret tells us how important the Get Britain Writing Campaign is for children.So the Stationery world has been buzzing with excitement for some weeks now – National Stationery Week (22nd-24th April) has linked with the National Literacy Trust – the only...

Editor at Spabreaks.com, the UK's largest spa booking agency, Bonnie Friend tells us how the experience of a spa break can be wonderfully bonding for loved ones.The fact that a spa break is an enjoyable, indulgent way to spend your time is not news to many people, but the quality time, and, dare we say it, bonding time it provides...

This weekend saw the celebration of Cliff Coxon’s life with the annual petanque tournament.  Brothers and Sister alike compete to take home the much coveted “I’m Brilliant" trophy.  The trophy was hand carved, by Mum, Joan Coxon, from a piece of Yew wood from our garden and the boules on the top belonged to Cliff.For those of you who don’t...

I gave my Grampa, Frank Gold, the first copy of Dear Grandad from you to me when it came off the production line in 2008. As a journalist at, and subsequently the chief editor of the Swansea Evening post I knew he had a love of stories. Grampa was born and still lived in Swansea so although I didn’t get...