May 15
Worktop Express have long taken an interest in Gloucestershire talent and when we learned that the time had come for the Sally Prout School of Dancing’s bi-annual show, we were delighted to lend a hand!
Established in 1985, the school has gone from strength to strength and is now a leading local institution, with many pupils going on to continue their studies at the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet. This year we were treated to a production of Sleeping Beauty, a wonderful show which involved jazz, ballet and tap performers from pre-primary right up to senior school.
Performances ran for a week at the Bacon Theatre in Cheltenham and parents, teachers and friends mucked in throughout rehearsals and behind the scenes to ensure that things ran smoothly. Worktop Express donated vehicles and 2Man personnel for transportation of set and props, plus a few keen members of staff to help backstage.
In the end, Sleeping Beauty played to great audiences and raised £3,000 for charity: congratulations to everyone involved!
The popularity of our 2Man delivery service continues to grow; news which delights the whole Worktop Express team and inspires us to continue improving the 2Man operation. As such – in order to maintain a premium service nationwide – we’ve recently expanded our fleet to include two new vans. We can now accommodate even more delivery requests while providing the superior quality our customers have come to expect.
The word ‘move’ might strike fear into the heart of many employers: the organisation, the timing, the coordination of technical support…. there are endless details to consider.
Worktop Express continued to prioritise customer service with an enhancement of delivery options. Indeed, the implementation of our own in-house 2Man delivery service was perhaps the biggest and proudest step Worktop Express took in 2011: beginning with just one van in January 2011, we worked hard to eliminate any kinks by trialling the service thoroughly before expanding to southern and central England in March. The huge success of this trial period allowed us to expand rapidly, covering the whole of the UK by summer – making us the only solid wood worktop specialists in the country to offer an in-house, next-day, two-man delivery service nationwide! Our subsequent partnership with an external two-man courier also proved valuable, adding real flexibility to our burgeoning service. As a result of these changes we ended the year with a fantastic first-delivery success rate of 99%. 
