Can you help make my daughter's Christmas??

So you may have noticed I forgot to send this on Friday, I'd taken the day off to have a day at Becky Falls with my daughter for half term and it completely slipped my mind!!?We had a great time though, climbing over the rocks over the waterfall, feeding the meerkats and pumpkin carving, although mummy-fail we left it behind when we went home!?

We also had some exciting news last week as we were announced as Finalists for the Devon Women In Business Awards in the Small Business category - wish us luck for the finals at the end of November.

In my world

Now that the October half term is out of the way, thoughts turn to Christmas, someone reminded me that it's less than 2 months away!?Having no idea what Bethan wants for Christmas, over dinner last night we asked her to make a list.??

Here's three things from her list.

Now, I know the power of networking so can anyone help me with these?

• A live Pegasus
• To live at The Thirsty Farmer (pub we like!)
• To learn to be a builder

If you need help sorting gifts, sending cards, creating a Christmas newsletter or anything else Christmas related, then now's the time to get in touch and have a chat with us as this is something we often help our clients with - time is running short!

On the blog - Starting out: Beginning an internship

Last week we welcomed Daniela as our new Marketing and Business Support Intern. In this blog, she tells us a little bit about herself and her expectations for the role.

TOP TIP FOR THE WEEK

Did you know that there is a setting in LinkedIn that's set to 'off' which helps protect you from harmful messages landing in your inbox.?Strangely the default is 'OFF'.?Click this link to take you to the page to turn it ON.

(credit goes to Lea Turner on LinkedIn for this tip!)

Testimonials: Nova Fundraising

"We were struggling under a mountain of admin tasks and were feeling quite stressed about it all. We started working with Natasha who has helped with diary management, newsletter organising, data entry, PowerPoint creation, invoicing and social media writing.?This has freed up a lot of time that we can now spend focusing on growing the business, and meetings have become a lot more efficient!

Virtual Assistants?can become an integral part of your team!"

A few weeks back you may recall that I mentioned that while I had been?doing some research for a client I came across this brilliant site called Pirkx, a business that provides company benefits for freelancers!

• 40+ benefits and services such as 24/7 private GP
• Discounted gym membership
• Use Pirkx portal for cashback on your weekly shop
• Channel into their 5 pillars of wellbeing, providing you and your household with crucial benefits, so that you can live life to the full
• Mental health resilience coaching, counselling, virtual gym classes, physiotherapy, nutrition and health tips, budgeting, debt advice and more

I wanted to share this with you, so you too can benefit from all of this!

If you'd like me to send you an invitation to the JMVA Pirkx site let me know, and I'll pop that over to you so you can have a look around and see what you think!

You might want to let other people you know know about it too, as I think it could come in very handy!!

I hope you've found this week's content useful, thank you for giving me a little of your time to share my tips with you.

Where I'll Be!

You can find me at the following events, do come and say hello, or if you'd like to find out about these events, reply to this email.

* NatWest Boost, Exeter 1 November?

* Devon Women in Business Awards 26 November