Clearview South February 2014 - Issue 147 | Page 70
BUSINESSNEWS
Right to Buy New Year’s resolution
The government will take further steps to
reinvigorate the Right to Buy in 2014 so
more hard-working tenants can aspire to
buy their home, Communities Secretary
Eric Pickles announced today.
The maximum discount for a house will
increase from 60% to 70% of its value,
and the £75,000 cap will start increasing in
line with the consumer price index rate of
inflation. A £100 million fund will improve
access to mortgage finance, and new Right
to Buy agents will guide people through the
buying process.
‘Allows them to do
up their home, change
their front door,
improve their garden’
Revenue from additional sales will be
ploughed back into delivering new affordable
homes for rent, which will help drive up the
rate of housebuilding across the country.
Mr Pickles said the changes showed the
government’s rock solid support for aspiration,
and would ensure Right to Buy becomes a
realistic New Year’s resolution for thousands of
social tenants across the country.
The Right to Buy gives something back to
families who worked hard, paid their rent and
played by the rules. It allows them to do up
their home, change their front door, improve
their garden - without getting permission from
the council.
SWELL START TO CHRISTMAS FOR JON
Tearing into presents, preparing
a festive feast, rocking around
the Christmas tree - that’s what
Christmas morning means for
most people.
Not so for Hurst Plastics’
customer Jon Dickson of Kings
Lynn based J&K Glass. He braved
the bitterly cold North Sea on a
very blustery Christmas morning
to raise money for the Rudham
Ward at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital in Kings Lynn.
Dressed for the occasion in a
striking (but hardly warm) hula
girl outfit, determined Jon took
on the challenge of the annual
Hunstanton Christmas Swim
in a bid to raise at least £1,000
for the unit, which cared for
his son who was struck down
with viral meningitis at just two
days old. And Hurst Plastics was
only too pleased to sponsor his
heroic effort to the tune of £250.
Further donations have flooded
in since the swim and Jon and his
fellow hula girls have now raised
nearly £2,000.
Mark Atkinson, Sales Director
at Hurst Plastics, said: “We have
worked closely with the team
at J&K Glass throughout the
last year and built up a great
rapport with Jon. We were really
impressed when we heard about
the challenge and were delighted
to support him.”
Tel: 01482 790790,
email: [email protected], Website:
www.hurst-plastics.co.uk
Now No.1 in Agency League
MRA Marketing is now top of
the Construction Marketing
Awards’ Agency League, up
from second place the previous
year.
Compiled by the organisers
of the Awards, the Chartered
Institute of Marketing’s
Construction Industry Group
(CIMCIG), the League ranks 50
marketing agencies specialising
in this sector. The results are
based on their performance at the
Awards over the previous three
years. MRA was shortlisted in
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four categories at the December
Awards and won two, which
pushed the company up to
No.1.
‘An independent,
quantitative
measure’
“The Agency League is an
independent, quantitative
measure so to be ranked first
is fantastic,” comments Lucia
Di Stazio, Director of MRA
Marketing, which has won nine
Construction Marketing Awards,
and been shortlisted 15 times
over the years. “All our campaigns
have been based on our promise
to help companies grow, and
recognition like this just proves
that we really do deliver that.”
To find out more contact Lucia
Di Stazio on 01453 521621
or lucia@mra-marketing.
com, or read MRA’s Marketing
Matters blog and follow @
MRAMarketing.
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