SmithMartin Partnership LLP Welcome to SmithMartin Resources for your project, setting, school or community business idea.   -Working in partnership with you to turn ideas into reality..  You can find details of our partnership services through the link below. A brief service prospectus (.pdf/365Kb) You can send us a message from our feedback page changethinking - our partnership blog for news, ideas, resources or just things we want to say. Our current featured document... A Communication Toolkit for Children's Centres (.pdf download/448Kb) A set of ideas, guidance and resources for Children's Centres to get the best from their communicatons with parents, carers and children. This guide from the DCSF contains very good general guidance on how to communicate with your community of interest. The document also helps you to decide on a format for your Centre press releases, as well as providing a template for an image release form, for example. It is a great place to start if you are thinking of developing a communication strategy as a Centre and need ideas on what to do to help execute your new plans as a result. The tool-kit can help you think of fresh ways to reach your audience, keep them informed and, importantly, help them communicate with you in return. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Below on this page you can find a range of services and resources that SmithMartin LLP can provide to support this delivery for you. Whether you would like new graphic designs for a consistent image, our professional team can create original designs for you - helping to make the ideas and vision of your team a reality. A web site and email to keep your information online - whether publishing your curriculum and activities, features on parent and carer activity or publishing your recruitment and visitor statistics online in fresh, innovative ways - we can help. An in-house TV station to constantly broadcast your good news and parent/carer updates - or your centre newsletter and posters converted to web pages, audio visual slides on a CD or DVD. We can create a whole new community library or a simple, high quality book corner in reception to stimulate imaginations and promote your local partnership literacy agenda? We can help, whatever the vision, ambition or needs of your centre. You can use the links below, or visit www.dolphinbookbox.co.uk to see all our services and resources in one place. You can send us a brief contact message here. We would be delighted to help you communicate your success and to feature the learning and progress of the children in your care. This DCSF resource is downloadable from our archive page here.(.pdf 448kb) You may find this and many other useful documents for communities, schools, children's centres and social enterprise on our archive page. What else our partnership delivers... Strategic development Operational planning Funding advice Governance support Charity or community business growth Social enterprise creation or change In partnership with our selected suppliers we also deliver services and resources - all designed to help you grow and develop your children's centre, school project or programme, charity, community business or social enterprise. You can see details of our ethical, social business trading styles below on this page. We are members of Ethical Junction, Social Enterprise London,  4Children, DayCare Trust, Learning through Landscapes,  Better Payment Practice, Learning through Landscapes and the School Library Association Our business services brochure is also available on our archive page  - please take a copy with our compliments. Recent site updates ... We have recently updated both our Thirdsectorweb and Dolphinbookbox pages to better illustrate how our services are interwined into a useful mix of project and communication solutions. We are happy to work with clients in the preparation of projects - recognising that complex decisions to spend or facilitate necessarily take time. Read more on our news page here Updated: Our list of partner suppliers - we recommend them Organisations who can supply resources complimentary to your project or setting.  SmithMartin is happy to work in conjunction with our partners to deliver projects. Promoting knowledge and information - our bookshops offer an always fresh range of titles to compliment our services Social Business books  and books for children  SmithMartin supports open knowledge sharing and literacy development. Send friends, family or colleagues a new book - courtesy of Amazon.co.uk You can see SmithMartin ethical trading styles below... Thirdsectorweb.co.uk Community web design, hosting and email. From a simple and elegant static site to interactive surveys, online newsletters, staff and parent bulletin boards or file share spaces...we can create  secure bespoke solutions for your on-line community. Providing an accessible, clear and affordable web presence for your sector. Read more... City Stories Our project to bring authors, storytellers and illustrators into communities. We bring events, people and books.   We work with you to make the occasion free at the point of delivery for families and children. We give away books as part of our project to make starting your first library easy. We build a community web site to support the event and help to start a community children's book group - to keep the reading effect going and growing.  Read more... Dolphinbooksellers.co.uk Our children's books and literacy support retail web service. Discounts and up to date children's book news and features always available. Your purchases are always safely delivered by Amazon. We are always adding new titles to our lists - helping us bring a broad range of books for children's centres, schools and community groups. Read more... Dolphinbookbox.co.uk Resource procurement of goods, services and print/graphic design. Whether you are sourcing MultiScreen display equipment, children's books, a library re-design, signage, shelters to make the most of your inside/outside strategies, art for your reception area or print marketing... Read more.... Offering schools, children centres, childcare settings and community groups a one-stop shop for services that help promote and deliver your projects...and great children's books too as always. Read more... Pausing to reflect... ''Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. Matthew Arnold, - poet, cultural critic and school inspector. (1822 - 1888) See his Wikipedia entry here .