What Is Your Business App Of The Month?

Chineham Park is sponsoring a new regular feature called business app of the month in the digital edition of The Business Magazine, a publication for directors and senior business executives in the Thames Valley and Solent and South Central areas.

In the December issue Chineham Park takes the reader through the functions of the new MEPC app, but it is looking for a different business app to review every month throughout 2011 that assists businesses and is available via iPhone, BlackBerry or smartphone.

If you have a business app of the month, please email parklife@chinehampark.co.uk with your suggestion.

Learn To Cook For Christmas

Newlyns Cookery School, situated above Newlyns Farm Shop in North Warnborough in Hampshire, provides cookery courses for anyone wanting to learn the basics through to preparing impressive specialist menus making it the ideal gift this Christmas.

Perfect as an individual present for someone special or as a corporate reward, Newlyns offers hands on courses for up to 12 people or demonstration courses for up to 20 people.

Newlyns Cookery School holds a wide range of cookery courses. From Butcher It, Cook It, Carve It, Fantastic Fish and Express Dinner Parties to Beginners, Five Day Culinary Life Skills and Four Week Evening Courses, Newlyns has something for all tastes.

Newlyns also offers cookery courses for young chefs aged between eight and 12 years old and 13 plus where budding chefs are guaranteed to be educated, inspired and occupied during the festive holidays.

If you would like to treat a friend, colleague or family member this Christmas, please visit: www.newlyns-farmshop.co.uk for more information.

Free Coach Text Alerts

If you have subscribed to the free courtesy coach text alerts you will have already received a welcome text introducing you to the service.

Courtesy coach users who subscribe to the alert service instantly receive a text message informing them of any problem with the coaches, traffic delays or weather related issues, allowing them to make a quick decision and factor this into their journey to work, also reducing the stress of their commute.

If you are a courtesy coach user and would like to subscribe, please email Wendy Scott at wscott@mepc.com

Town Buses Benefit From New Chineham Park Fuel Point

MEPC Chineham Park, Basingstoke's leading business location, has invested in a fuel filling point where the town's Park and Ride buses and its own courtesy coaches can refuel.

Rupert Batho, managing director for MEPC Chineham Park, said: “Our new courtesy coaches run on used cooking oil (UCO) which is more environmentally friendly, but the nearest refueling depot meant that the coaches would have to travel approximately 30 miles every day. We decided the most sensible option was to create a fuel filling point at Chineham Park for our coaches and the local council’s Park and Ride buses, which also run on UCO.”

Borough cabinet member for the environment and climate change, Cllr Elaine Still, said: “The refueling service at Chineham Park is very convenient and also helps to enhance the service we offer to the local community. Having such a facility on our doorstep minimises the town transport fuel consumption and maximises Basingstoke’s offering.”