Trophies

Finding Your Child the Right Sporting Activity

Choosing a sport for your child takes time and a little research and observation on your part. The key thing to remember is that sports for kids can be wonderful in so many ways, regardless if end of year trophies are involved. Here, we’ve created a great list of tips for ensuring your child finds the right sport to enjoy:

What is Your Child Interested In?

The first step is to really think about what your child is interested in. Do they love running, or do you find them dancing around all the time? Is their favourite playtime kicking around a ball or do they enjoy climbing and rolling around on the jungle gym? Sometimes it’s just a matter of seeing what your child likes doing naturally, and this will translate into what sport they will thoroughly enjoy.

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4 Tips for Coaching Your Child’s Sports Team

If you are coaching your child’s sporting team you need to take into consideration the difference between being your child’s parent and being their coach. This isn’t always easy. If you are driving the team for success and focused on everyone receiving trophies at the end of the year, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but you need to ensure that your child doesn’t feel extra pressure with you being their team’s coach. Here, we’ve listed some important tips every parent should know if they are coaching their child’s sporting team:

Communicate with Your Child

The most important thing to do first is communicate with your child. Talk to them about what it will be like when you will be coaching their team. Ask them if they are o.k for you to take on this role. Re-assure them that they don’t need to feel extra pressure, but at the same time to be fair to the other kids, you can’t treat them differently than the other team members. (It’s really important not to do this, because it might effect your child’s treatment in the team by the other kids as well).

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Celebrating Important Achievements with Your Child

Making a big deal when you child does something well or wins a few trophies is not just about pandering to their ego, but in fact it helps to build their self confidence. Whether they’ve done really well on their last report card or their team won the finals in soccer, we’ve got a great list of ideas for celebrating all of these important achievements with you child:

A rewarding surprise

Have they had their eye on that dress, or perhaps they are still a little too young and have been hinting for Santa to bring them a certain toy this year? Either way, buying them a special something they’ve been wanting is the perfect way to surprise them and give them the recognition they deserve.

Make their favourite meal or dessert

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Great Gifts for 21st Birthdays

21st birthdays are always a very important occasion, usually marked by a big celebration with family and friends. With 21st birthdays comes 21st birthday gifts and it can be hard to decide on the right gift for the person you are buying for. Here, we’ve got a great list of gift ideas suitable for all sorts of 21 year olds. From trophies , glasses and novelty gifts to gift vouchers for sky diving, we’ve got a great list of ideas you don’t want to miss:

A voucher for an experience

Turning 21 is a big deal. What better way to celebrate this important milestone birthday than by doing something you’ve always wanted to do? This is where an experience based voucher comes in. Of course, you need to know the person to know what they’d like. You may decide on getting them a skydiving voucher for instance. Or perhaps you want them to really learn to appreciate that alcohol they will be chugging down from a yard glass at their party and want to buy them a voucher for a beer and wine tasting course? Whatever you choose, it’s something they can have a great time doing and remember that they did it for their 21st, compliments of you.

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How to Host an Office Fundraiser

In the business world, the bottom line is always profit. Sometimes, however, businesses like to give back to the community, and not only is this a great way to help people in need, it boosts employee morale and public goodwill as well. If you’ve been put in charge of hosting an office fundraiser or at least organising the specifics, we’ve put together a guide to doing it in style. From skills competitions between staff members complete with trophies and prizes to how to choose a charity with which to align yourself, we’ve got you covered.
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Famous Fishing Trophies

If you ask any keen fisherman why they go fishing, you can be certain they won’t mention trophies. In fact, most fishermen have their own peculiar reasons, but high on every angler’s list is simple peace and quiet.

It is easy to imagine yourself engaging with nature and being at one with the environment. Simply standing on the banks of a quietly flowing river, or advancing into the shallow water off a beach to cast a line into the creaming surf is enough to bring a smile to anyone’s face.

For many, this simple engagement with Mother Nature is enough. For others, it is the excitement of hearing the spin of the creel and the flash of silver beneath the surface just before hauling in a winning catch.
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3 Reasons for Buying Wholesale Trophies

With everything we buy, we want to maximise value for money without sacrificing quality; this applies to trophies and corporate awards just as much as any other product. Among the many good reasons for buying wholesale trophies, recognition of achievement and progress, reduced expense and good quality are three of the most important.

Recognition of Achievement and Progress:

There is something about public acknowledgement of achievement and progress that lifts spirits, increases motivation and makes a person feel valued. And, receiving a trophy as token of appreciation or excellence or as recognition of a job well done, is a tangible reminder to a person of their success and contribution to an organisation or team.
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How to Choose the Best Trophy

It might be a relatively simple task to choose the best trophy at your local sports club or school sports team. But when it comes to corporate awards the choice becomes a little more testing.

A golfer is happy to receive an award that features a golf ball, a player holding a golf club, or even a stylised tee! A hockey player or a cricketer is similarly likely to be happy with a trophy that represents some piece of sporting equipment relative to their individual sport.

But what do you choose when it comes to rewarding the best personal assistant in the accounts department? What about the best salesperson? These questions need not be as difficult as they first seem as you will soon discover. These days awards can be stylised to meet just about any requirement so that individual achievements can be specifically recognised in the most appropriate way.
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What Makes a Great Trophy?

For those of you who still think that trophies are things handed out to kids at the end of football season, think again. Whilst trophies have never been out of favour when it comes to children’s sports you might be surprised to learn that they are highly prized by adults too and not just in the sports arena.

These days corporate events are being built around trophy presentations and these events are used not simply to present awards but to highlight corporate endorsements. It’s a well-known fact that companies compete to sponsor large scale, well-publicised events such as the Brownlow medal, but it is becoming increasingly common for even small businesses to get involved in their local communities by sponsoring local events, and what better way to do this then with the presentation of a trophy?
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How Trophies Enhance the Winning Experience

Every successful company, no matter what industry or profession, knows the value of a satisfied and happy workforce, and the importance of corporate awards. It might seem a matter of common sense, but one of the best ways to maximise profit and increase efficiency is to make sure that your staff are content but only with their general conditions of employment, but also in terms of job satisfaction.

There is simply no doubt about it, every employee likes to feel valued and to be an important member of staff. Where employment involves working as part of a team it is a supervisor’s job to maintain high morale by providing continuous stimulus and positive feedback as well is setting realistic targets.
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