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With Children In Need just around the corner, we're planning our usual bake sale, all-you-can-eat buffet and raffle to raise money for disadvantaged and poorly children. Christmas is only a few weeks away too, so we're holding collections of food, toiletries, toys and gifts on behalf of regional appeals. Finally, we held another group blood donation session last week and our very own Steven Shaw (photographed here) has recently pledged his 25th blood donation over a 9-year period.

We've launched a new employee award scheme called the Peter Dye Memorial Shield, named after our long-serving director who sadly passed away earlier this year. Peter’s unwavering resilience, perseverance and dedication to his working life at Quill are the attributes sought in the winner of the Memorial Shield. The inaugural winner is Maria Ashurst, our helpdesk support technician. Read more.

Having sadly lost our long-serving director, Peter Dye, to blood cancer recently, this year's main annual fundraiser was in aid of Anthony Nolan, a charity that uses its register to match potential stem cell donors to blood cancer and blood disorder patients in need of stem cell transplants. A team of 12 members of staff and a wider group of family and friends took part in the Salford Dragon Boat Race, held on 20th May at Salford Quays, an event chosen because Peter was a sailing enthusiast. Today we presented £3,021 to Anthony Nolan in an attempt to make a difference to people like Peter in the future. Read more.

An exciting job opportunity has arisen for a Senior Payroll Officer to join our outsourced payroll bureau based in Liverpool. The successful applicant should possess a minimum of 2 years’ previous payroll experience. As part of the role, you’ll be allocated various client sites, and be responsible for the full range of payroll duties for each of these. Read full job specification and apply to join Quill.

In our latest case study, Imran Khawaja, Managing Partner at Armstrong & Co Solicitors in London, explains how the practice first began using our outsourced payroll service in 2013. To support company growth, the practice recently recruited an in-house cashier and started doing its own payroll for a short period before reverting back to Quill when things didn't work out. Imran states: "We're living proof of how outsourcing's best to operate the payroll function. We recommend Quill for the job!" 

We're excited to announce that this year's main charity fundraising event is the Salford Dragon Boat Race, taking place on Sunday 20th May at Salford Quays. Our teams of 16 paddlers will participate in three qualifying races over the 180 metres of Ontario Dock and (hopefully) battle it out int he grand final. Our charity is Anthony Nolan, a trust set up in 1974 to match blood stem and bone marrow donors to people with blood cancer or blood disorders who desperately need lifesaving transplants. Having lost our long-serving director, Peter Dye, to blood cancer earlier this year, we're supporting the charity that gives aid to people with the illness which tragically took Peter's life. We're also doing something that was Peter's passion in life - sailing.

This Easter, employees in our four regional offices - Manchester, Liverpool, Redcar and Brighton - have donated gifts or money (to buy gifts) for patients on the children's ward at Manchester Royal Infirmary and homeless children supported by Liverpool Homeless Football Club as well as children in care at Butterwick Hospice Care and Rockinghorse Children's Charity. Happy Easter everyone!

We celebrated our 40th birthday in January. Reaching our ruby anniversary was cause for celebration of our 90 staff, 4 offices, legal software and outsourced service solutions, all of which have earned us a whole raft of awards and accolades along the way. We’re extremely proud of every achievement, not least the fact that, even after all these years, we remain financially stable and privately owned. To mark the special occasion, we hosted a party for our employees.

Our new outsourced typing service, launched today, has been devised to drastically shorten documentation production times and save money for our clients while also delivering improvements to accuracy and security. As a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week service, Type allows you to receive your dictated work back as typed documents quickly and at all times of the day, to suit your workflow needs. Type replaces the requirement to hire additional temporary or permanent staff, which obviously increases overheads, giving you the chance to instead save up to 60% compared to current in-house costs. Read more benefits.