Heineken International Graduate Programme - workshop 2

This week saw the second workshop take place for the Heineken International 2010 intake. 12 international graduates flew to the UK for the three day event at Toojays' dedicated outdoor activity centre, Yellowfoot in Eton.

Toojays facilitators, Lee Martin and Miral Mahrous, were on hand to deliver the workshop, which focused on the competencies of achieving results and decision making. The facilitated discussions included case studies, competency reviews and the utilisation of decision making tools.

The graduates were also put through their paces with a series of outdoor experiential activities, designed to challenge their thought processes and further embed their learning.

Post workshop comments were extremely positive with graduates expressing their enjoyment in taking part, the value of the exercises themselves and eager anticipation of the third workshop!

"Weir Sunk" - winners of Deeping Raft Race 2011!

Toojays would like to congratulate the crew of "Weir Sunk", whom they sponsored in this year's Deeping Raft Race which took place on 7th August 2011. After a 3rd place result in 2009 and 2nd place in 2010, the four man crew were delighted to finally secure the top spot, beating all other rafts to come in with a winning time of 17 minutes 10 seconds. Starting at Black Gate, Deeping St James, the race proceeded upstream towards the locks, with the rafts being taken out of the river up the bank before being relaunched into the water, and finishing under the Market Deeping Town Bridge.

This year's high profile charity race was organised by the Rotary Club of the Deepings and the organising committee selected Anna's Hope as the main receiving charity, dedicated to giving hope to children and young people diagnosed with brain tumors, and inspired by Anna Hughes who died at the age of 3 years old.

Speaking after the race, Shaun Sinnott said, "We are delighted to be this year's winners of the raft race. The hard work and effort spent on building our raft has paid off and we will definitely be back next year to defend our title! Well done to my fellow team members - John Sinnot, Andy Coventon and Spencer Johnson - we did it, boys!"