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The 2008 London Design Festival is launching this morning at a press conference at London's South Bank Centre. This is the sixth Festival, and again it is planned to be bigger and better then ever. In 2007 nearly 400000 people attended over 220 events across London, with the Festival Hub at the Festival Hall one of the highlights. Once again the Festival is basing itself on the South Bank with highlights including the Carrenza sponsored Y Design awards and the inaugural D3 - The Digital Design Day.  

A full program of events will be available on the LDF website which again this year is being hosted by Carrenza. 

We knew something had to be done to raise cash for the 2008 Sport Relief campaign, but we are not really your jogging in the rain sort of team so we had to look for a way of doing sport and staying warm dry and entertained.

Elaine who is in charge of this sort of clever idea suggested mounting a Wii sports challenge -  go-karts and wrestling were discarded – so a call to our friends at Nintendo and we had blagged the use of a swanky Wii Kiosk. More help from our Landlord,  who lent us the foyer and from the team at BD NTWK who look after Nintendo’s Direct Marketing  and we had a challenge. Have fun and raise money for Sport Relief all in without leaving the building!

It was a huge success, people came up with all manner of excuses for not being at their desks working hard, lunchbreaks stretched and we managed to raise over £600 and pulled muscles with over enthusiastic Wii boxing. 

Sport Relief is a brilliant cause and a great way to raise money, we will be back next time round, but in the mean time you can always slip them a tenner or whatever you can manage, just pop over to http://donate.sportrelief.com with you card ready.

Carrenza has today been awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Status in recognition of our expertise in building and operating advanced systems.

Designed for technology partners specialising in high-availability, complex infrastructure solutions. Areas of specialisation for this competency are Active Directory Management, Exchange Migration and Deployment, Hosting, Systems Management and Storage Solutions.

We are delighted to have won this recognition, Our MS team have worked very hard with clients to deliver some challenging projects and we are really pleased that that work has been recognized.