CHRISTIAN BOOKSELLERS, DISTRIBUTORS, PUBLISHERS, SUPPLIERS AND WRITERS — in short, anyone and everyone involved with the Christian trade — are being called upon to stand together in prayer today, Thursday 7th April. The call has gone out via Together magazine: Steve Briars, the magazine’s publisher and managing editor, explains: Thursday 7 April 2016 has been … Continue reading
THIS YEAR’S Christian Resources Together retreat takes place over two days in September, Tues 15th – Weds 16th, but don’t let the fact that it’s later than in previous years catch you out: bookings are already approaching two-thirds of last year’s attendance — leaving it to the last minute could leave you out in the … Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS to all this year’s Christian Resources Together award winners! As most of this blog’s readers know, of course, the conference took place over Monday & Tuesday of this week, 2nd – 3rd June 2014, with the Awards Ceremony held on the Monday evening, many of the results tweeted by Eddie Olliffe.
UPDATE 18/6/2014: Official photos and the full list of award winners are now available on the CRT website: visit http://www.christianresourcestogether.co.uk/2014awardwinnersgallery.htm to view! Continue reading
MY THANKS to Steve Briars of Christian Resources Together for including the following UKCBD Press Release in February’s CRT E-Newsletter: Spring Cleaning at UKCBD It’s Spring Cleaning time at UKCBD, the UK Christian Bookshops Directory, http://www.christianbookshops.org.uk! UKCBD is a free online service designed to help connect Christian bookshops with their customers. Typical entries include a … Continue reading
THE PREVIEW EDITION of Together, the new Christian Trade magazine, is now complete — look out for a copy landing on your doormat any day now! More than 3,000 copies of the 24-page preview edition are being sent out free of charge to all Christian retailers, suppliers and other trade partners who are on the … Continue reading
MY THANKS to Steve Briars for alerting me to the forthcoming Equipping to Succeed conference, another resource and business networking initiative from Christian Resources Together. Scheduled for the end of March 2013 — just one month ahead of the CRT main event — its aim is “to bring together like-minded Christian business people for encouragement, training … Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN to Clem Jackson, Steve & Mandy Briars and Eddie Olliffe on bringing us the first e-news update on the new Christian trade magazine, Together. Introducing the newsletter, Clem writes: IT’S NICE TO SEE YOU… And you all know the rest of the line! But it is nice to be back with a … Continue reading
WHOLEHEARTED CONGRATULATIONS to Steve & Mandy Briars (Publishers) along with Clem Jackson (Editor) and Eddie Olliffe (Consulting Editor) on working together to bring a new magazine to the Christian book and retail trade: Together. The new magazine aims to fill the gap left by the discontinued trade edition of Christian Marketplace earlier this year, with a 24 … Continue reading
THIS WEEK I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting with Steve Briars, CRT Event Organiser, to talk through what’s coming up at the Christian Resources Together 2013 Retailers & Suppliers Retreat (CRT2013 from now on) and to bounce around a couple of his other ideas. My thanks to Steve for taking time out to … Continue reading
WHOLEHEARTED CONGRATULATIONS to all the CRT2012 Award Winners, with further congratulations to those award winners who have been proactive in publicising their awards: press releases and tweets included in the roundup below. This is an occasion when the UK Christian book and retail trade can rightly celebrate its achievements, and to those who haven’t shouted … Continue reading
