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Charity begins ... at work!

Charity begins ... at work!

One of the great things about working at Freshleaf is that we ringfence 10% of our net profits to support good causes. Occasionally during the year we'll see charities reach out with donation...

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Less plastic in our oceans with CleanHub partnership

Less plastic in our oceans with CleanHub partnership

With today's 'disposable' lifestyle, the statistics on plastic are terrifying. We create 400 million tons of plastic waste per year. Around half of that is single-use, only 9% is recycled, and all...

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Volunteering at Holtwood

Volunteering at Holtwood

Once again, summer has passed in a blur and somehow it's autumn. During the summer months we normally try to get out for a team volunteering day locally, so heading out in October we were a bit...

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Death to lorem ipsum: putting content first.

Death to lorem ipsum: putting content first.

There’s a lot of threads to pull together to successfully build and launch a new website. You take time to plan the sitemap, user journey, messaging, broad look and feel requirements, build...

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Context is all: the XY Problem

Context is all: the XY Problem

I’ve been working in web and software development for…. ohhh, let’s not talk about how long. That’s a lot of projects planned and delivered, and one of the things that often comes up when doing...

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Team Away Day

Team Away Day

Who doesn't like the chance to try their hand with ranged weapons?

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Autopilot disengage

Autopilot disengage

I’ve been listening lately to a podcast about business, and it’s reminded me how important it is – in life and in business – to ingest…. I hate the word “content”, so I won’t use it. Let’s go...

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Team building again

Team building again

We've done various team-building days over the years, but this year's may qualify as one of the best. The weather was beautiful for our outing to sunny Swanage where we visited Cumulus Outdoors....

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Mighty Hike

Mighty Hike

Congratulations to Damien on completing the Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike yesterday - an epic half marathon hike over the hilly Dorset coastline, for McMillan Cancer Support. He completed the 21km...

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Pest: Run Only Tests In One File

Pest: Run Only Tests In One File

Pest is our tool of choice when it comes to testing in PHP. It is built on top of the tried and tested PHP Unit and adds a bunch of useful helpers which improve the DX. One I use often is the...

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