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The staff at Sunderland Marine did their best at bringing some Christmas cheer to the office by having a dress up or down day depending how you look at it; whereby members of staff took part by dressing in their Christmas best. The day was organised by Andrew Bell, who himself wore a very fetching Christmas jumper of his own for the occasion. Andrew also managed to raise £130 through staff donations for Help the Hero’s charity, an extremely worthy cause.

Prizes were awarded to those members of staff whose efforts were of particularly note, with Judith Cutter our very own Christmas elf and Janet Cook a very professional looking Mrs Clause deserved of a special mention.

With the day being a great success this will hopefully be the first of many Christmas fancy-dress days and charity fund raising events at Sunderland Marine in years to come.

Following the Directors’ meetings and the Company’s Annual General Meeting held in late June 2011 at the Marine Hotel, North Berwick a visit was arranged for the Directors to the West Coast of Scotland. This was to take the opportunity to meet with members, clients and old friends of the Company in the region around Mallaig and Fort William.

The Directors were fortunate enough to be shown over the lifeboat “Henry Alston Hewat”, a 10 year old Severn class vessel up to Loch Nevis. 

The following day Marine Harvest (Scotland) were kind enough to invite the Directors to visit various sites around the Fort William area. 

The Directors and Sunderland Marine would like to thank all those that they met during the visit and especially:

The crew of the “Henry Alston Hewat”.

Mo Matheson.

Colin Macdougall and colleagues of Denholm’s for arranging the lifeboat excursion.

The management and staff of the West Highland Hotel.Steve Bracken, Business Support Manager, of Marine Harvest (Scotland) Ltd.

All management and staff at the Marine Harvest sites that were visited in particular Allan MacDonald, manager of Lochailort Smolt Unit, Ronnie Hawkins manager of Loch Leven Sea Water Production Unit and Ian McKillip and Alastair Smith of the Blar Mhor Processing Factory.

The Directors find these visits to be extremely useful and informative and they form part of the annual calendar of events for the Board.

Recent visits include:
Cooke Aquaculture, Nova Scotia, Canada

Lunenberg and Sambro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Peterhead, Scotland

Fraserburgh, Scotland

Macduff, Scotland

Silas Taylor has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company on 22nd March 2011. He was a partner in the law firm Andrew Jackson, retiring in 2008 but continues to act on a consultancy basis for them. Pictured with Trevor Hart (Chairman).