Shrewsbury based web design company The Web Orchard is offering a free Blog for new web customers during this summer’s World Cup. Blogs are proven to be a great way to reach out to customers and help form part of the all important social link in any marketing strategy.

For customers who agree to a new website during the world cup we will setup the blogging software WordPress, will theme the blog to look like your website and provide a training session for free!

Managing director Nathan Bensley-Edwards said “We‘re always trying to help local businesses in different ways and the World Cup has given us a great reason to promote the benefits of blogging.”

“One of the keys to a success blog is keeping a consistent look and feel which is why we are offering to theme WordPress to look like your website.”

The Web Orchard manages a number of blogs for companies around the globe and is known as a friendly approachable local business.

Whether you are looking to build on search engine ranking or enhance your brand The Web Orchard can provide a solution to grow your business.

The Web Orchard can be found at www.theweborchard.com or 01743 343411.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Low Carbon Enterprise, built for Marches Energy Agency.

The Web Orchard is pleased to announce the launch of the website for Celsius.

Shropshire businesses who want to learn more about reducing their impact on the environment now have access to a new-look website.

The Business Environmental Support Scheme for Telford (BESST) set up www.telfordbesst.co.uk to help companies shape their environmental policies.

And now, following requests from local businesses, the site has been redesigned to incorporate an interactive members’ forum which is already proving extremely popular.

Amy Regler, Investor Development Co-ordinator for Transforming Telford, said: “Our members wanted an area on the site where they could share ideas and ask questions, and where they could find out about the latest developments on the local environmental agenda.

“The latest version of the site now includes a ‘members only’ forum where companies can post any environmental queries they may have, offer waste matching solutions, and share best practice ideas.”

The aim now is to develop a legal section on the site, which will include practical examples of how businesses can meet the necessary legal requirements.

“We’re working on a local case study section too, featuring the environmental improvements many of our businesses have made, as one of our key aims is to help members share their experiences,” said Amy.

BESST worked with TheWebOrchard.com, from Shrewsbury, to develop the website, and they are one of the first IT companies in the UK to become carbon neutral and therefore an ideal choice.

TheWebOrchard.com have committed to making an annual payment to offset the firm’s carbon footprint and alongside this are based in the pump house which is a showcase high quality, low energy sustainable building design.

The BESST group is a partnership of local and private sector businesses including Transforming Telford, Ricoh, Maxell, Simmonsigns, DENSO, Telford Extrusions, and Lyreco. It offers free advice to all companies focusing on resource efficiency and minimising waste.

To find out more about the BESST group visit www.telfordbesst.co.uk or contact amy.regler@transformingtelford.co.uk, 01952 567567

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Burcote Wind Renewables website. Burcote Wind is an independent developer and operator of small to medium scale wind energy projects in the United Kingdom.

Find out more at: www.burcotewind.co.uk

A new web site has been launched for social entrepreneurs and anyone interested in developing a social enterprise.

Partners for Social Enterprise, the sub-regional social enterprise partnership for Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire, aims for its new website (www.pfse.co.uk) to be a valuable resource for those running a social enterprise and anyone who’s thinking about starting one. Partners can share information on upcoming events, stories or documents. For the Partnership the new site is an important tool in the development of a coordinated and growing social enterprise sector in the three counties.

The new website includes sections on news, events and developing a social enterprise as well as a members area where social enterprises can share documents and hold forum discussions.

The website has been developed by the Web Orchard, based in Shrewsbury. ( www.theweborchard.com )

About Partners for Social Enterprise

Formed in 2004, Partners for Social Enterprise is a cross sector partnership of organisations interested in the development of the social enterprise movement in Herefordshire, Shropshire & Worcestershire. Partners come from the social enterprise sector itself, local authorities, business support providers and the private sector. The Partnership encourages social enterprise to thrive by bringing together social enterpreneurs, coordinating the support available to them and linking activity in the three counties with wider regional and national initiatives.

There are around 1,500 social enterprises in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire, working to support all sections of the community. Across the West Midlands as a whole, social enterprise generates around £5.5m os business and supports a workforce of around 150,000.

Visit www.pfse.co,uk

The Web Orchard are pleased to launch the new website for Staffordshire Unison:

http://www.staffordshireunison.org.uk/

The Web Orchard are today pleased to launch the new website for Telford BESST.

http://www.telfordbesst.co.uk

Telford BESST are funded by Transforming Telford.

The Web Orchard are happy to announce the launch of the website for Youth Organisations Wolverhampton

http://www.yow.org.uk

The Web Orchard are pleased to launch a new Website for YMCA Wolverhampton:

http://www.ymca-wolverhampton.co.uk/