Easter Bunny visits Stevenage

Another fantastic day on the Easter tour! Today we visited the Lister Hospital in Stevenage where we met with the head matron and had a lovely tour of the children’s ward.  We met some real characters and had great fun helping the Easter bunny give out his Easter treats.

  

A lot of the teenagers on the ward wanted chocolate so we managed to give out a large number of choccie eggs!

 

We were also joined by the lovely Louise Yexley from The Best Of Hitchin, Kerry Ahmani-Ferdi, Access Regional Manager and Lisa-Marie Penrose, Access CSA and the hero team all made the front news of the Stevenage Advertiser as well as The Comet Series out next week! Who said the Easter Bunny wasn’t headline news?!”

Easter Bunny visits Portsmouth and Southampton

What a fantastic day we had on Friday! The sun was shining and after zooming down the motorway to Access Self Storage in Portsmouth, we arrived at the store to stock up on donated gifts before visiting the Willows Nursery where the children flocked around the Easter Bunny asking him questions and playing with his shades. Even the Easter bunny needs to chill out in the sun!

From Willows Nursery to Portsmouth Hospital where Portsmouth Live TV and The Portsmouth Journal were waiting for the hero team to turn up.

Armed with cuddly bunnies and a giant bear, the Easter Bunny took to the ward spreading his Easter sprit to all the poorly children. Even our very own Access Marketing Manager, Kevin Pratt was interviewed for TV!!

On to Southampton where we visited the Community Toy Library before we went to see the children on the ward at Southampton Hospital!

The smiles on all the children’s faces said it all....


Watch this space for our journey to Stevenage!

Easter Appeal starts off at Access Self Storage in Reading

On the first day of the Easter tour, the hero team hooked up with the Easter bunny on the M4 and set off to Access Self Storage in Reading!

The team turned up to discover that the public had outdone themselves and there were boxes and boxes of amazing presents donated to Reading Family Aid! Brand new cuddly toys, games, colouring books and clothes had been kindly given by the residents of Reading and we can’t thank them enough!

The Best of Reading and Reading Chronicle were there to document the visit and just because he likes to boast, the Easter bunny showed off his overly hair legs to the camera men! The store manager was interviewed and staff photographed. What a fantastic day!

Watch this space for the follow up piece in the Reading Chronicle and join us on the next leg of our journey on Friday 8th April when we’ll be visiting Portsmouth and Southampton. Pray for sunshine!!

Access Self Storage Easter Charity Activity update

“After a few members of the “hero team” went undercover yesterday at the King’s Cross store, we are delighted to announce that the PR machine is churning away nicely and after a pre-appeal piece in the Islington and Camden Gazette last week, hundreds and hundreds of toys have been donated! So much so that the store have had to move the drop off point to a large unit!

Larissa Clark from Islington (featured above) says “What a fantastic charity appeal. The Royal Free Hospital is close to my heart and I am so happy to be able to donate these toys to the children on the ward”

After a successful PR week with pre-appeal features in the Reading Chronicle, Southern Daily Echo, Hammersmith and Fulham Chronicle, Islington and Camden Gazette, The Best Of Richmond and The Portsmouth News, let’s hope that the Easter Bunny will be collecting hundreds of toys from each of the ten locations!”

Access Self Storage Easter Charity Activity

This Easter, Access Self Storage are opening their hearts once more and travelling the UK with the Easter bunny!


Over five days, the Access hero team and bunny will be visiting over ten charities and hospitals with Easter baskets full of donated toys and gifts!

Throughout March, special drop off points have been allocated in ten stores including Reading, Manchester, Twickenham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Fulham, Hammersmith, Stevenage, King’s Cross and Mitcham and the local papers and even TV (wow!) have been helping us let the public know where they can donate their unopened or unused gifts.


The Easter tour starts 5th April so follow us on our journey here on the blog!

Access Self Storage Sponsors 10th Annual Ball Ring Event

On Saturday February 12 Access Self Storage in Selly Oak, sponsored the 10th Annual Ball Ring Event at the University of Birmingham. The event was organised by the Purple Mermaid Circus Society and was attended by a large crowd of students.


It was an exciting day with Juggling, Unicycling, Stilt-walking, Poi, Balloon-modelling, magic, Diablo, Devil-stick and Fire-stuff. All the Access team joined in with the days antics, Jason Jones (sales manager) picked up the juggling balls and impressed everyone with his skills. Terri Anne (Store Supervisor) tried to master the fine art of Poi (she still has the bruises!).

We had a small stand, t-shirts were given away and over 200 Access canvas bags were taken by attendees to hold their juggling equipment (and our marketing literature!)





Terri Anne says "this was a great event which helped raise the brand profile of Access Self Storage amongst the local student population in Birmingham. Many enquires were received for Access stores in Birmingham, Manchester and Northampton. A fun time was had by all and we all learnt and new trick or two".

Purple Mermaid Circus society

On Saturday the 12th of February Access Self Storage in Selly Oak, Birmingham is sponsoring the Universities annual Ballring Event.


The Ballring takes place at the University Of Birmingham Guild Of Students between 10.30am and 8.30pm, and has been organised by the Purple Mermaid Circus Society.

The Ballring is an annual circus convention and is aimed at everyone from Professional performer types to "I've never touched a juggling ball before!

During the day there will be workshops where you can try something new or improve an existing skill. There is also a session of circus games in the late afternoon.

After a break, there is the renegade show, where anyone can show off a new skill for prizes, followed by raffle prizes and a professional show.

You're welcome to join us, we'd love to see you there!