In 1983 a group of men training at the Olympians Gym in Streatham, South London discovered a mutual interest in American Football, they began to meet and train on Streatham Common and one of Britain’s founding teams, The London Olympians, were born.

The Olympians are the United Kingdom’s most successful amateur American Football club. In over 25 years of British American Football the London Olympians have played in 18 finals winning 12 of them giving them the best record of any British team.

This year the Olympians will be competing in the British American Football League Division 2, competing with several of the UK’s top teams for the right to call themselves national champions.

Last year the senior team saw three top players take advantage of great opportunities as a result of their experiences with the Olympians. Defensive Back Adeotatus Twumasi and Wide Receivers Folley Ogundele and Kenny Bello were selected to be members of the GB Lions National Team. The Lions will travel to Germany in 2010, to compete in the European Championships.

The Olympians pride themselves on welcoming anyone regardless of experience or age, and what better way to learn than to be taught by experienced, motivated and friendly coaches as well as getting additional support from some of the best players in the country. So whether you are looking to take your game to the next level, learn a new sport or just love the game then get in touch with London Olympians as we have opportunities for players in youth (14-19), senior (18+) , coaching and non-playing staff.

For more information check us out at: www.olympiansfootball.org

Lomax was due to fight Kell Brooke at the Manchester M.E.N arena on 18th July 2009 for the British Title Fight. Welterweight boxer, Michael Lomax has an illustrious career as an amateur boxer, with 15 wins, 2 draws & only one loss in 18 fights – quite impressive. So we had to do our best to impress the local lad with our garment decorating skills.

Serious Fitness were sponsoring Michael and had asked us to include their logo’s and web addresses on the shorts, not much you might think, but when you only have one go to get it right, you have to get it right!

Here’s what we got up to and how they looked.

The shorts were a combination of 5 colour vinyl printing, full colour OBM printing & embroidered badges.

Sadly for Michael the fight was stopped in the fourth round, with Lomax receiving a nasty cut above his right eye. We wish Michael a speedy recovery from his cut and I’m sure Serious Fitness will be sponsoring him again in the near future. For more info on Serious Fitness visit their website at www.serious-fitness.co.uk

The press office for Boden, were organising a promotional dinner for some of their clients & buyers and wanted to give them a ‘Goody Bag’ packed with lots of little pressies, so they thought they would create Christmas in July.

Our brief was to embroider  the company logo onto some very bobbly woollen fabric. So we embarked on sending out samples of our embroidery, colour samples of green and gold thread and requesting a special pattern to be made so that we could place the embroidery exactly in the right place for the design to be cut from.

Success, the embroidery went like a dream and Lisa Webb from Boden commented “The embroidery was really lovely and everyone was delighted with their stockings.”

So will they use us again…

“Many thanks for your help pushing this job through so quickly, it was a pleasure to work with you and I will definitely bear you in mind for any embroidery we might need in the future!”

Thanks Lisa it was nice working with you and all at Boden too.

The jumpsuits were a little easier, with a badge required for Victorinox – better known as the maker of the Swiss Army Knife.

 
At the start of the season the Red Devils also recruited their oldest team member Jock Hutton at the tender age of 84. Jock had previously jumped for the 13th Para during WWII and was one of the first of the airborne attack to land in Normandy on D-Day. For more information about the Red Devils go to their site at www.reddevilsonline.com

To help celebrate his birthday, JeaP was asked to produce a very special embroidery design. The commision was to embroider a fleece blanket for him to use whilst sitting in his wheelchair. The stitching needed to be large enough to capture the detail of the emblem and also convey the message that this year is the Centenary of  Naval Aviation. With nearly 82,000 stitches this piece took over two hours to sew and used 18 different thread changes throughout the design, both a digitising and an embroidery triumph.

The Fly Navy 100 team asked us to produce two fleece blankets for Henry Allingham to celebrate his birthday and with much care and guidance, together with the help of  Lieutenant Rob MacSavage of the Royal Navy, the job was a resounding success.

The link gives the full story of Henry’s day and shows our handiwork on Henry’s lap.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8086514.stm

Sadly Henry passed away on 18th July 2009 aged 113 years and 42 days.

For more information on the years celebrations for the Fly Navy 100 years see  www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.7033

If you would like to commision a special one of piece of embroidery and require help or would just like to make an initial enquiry, then Contact Us ensuring you leave as much information as possible including, your name and a contact  telephone number. For now it’s back to work…

Debbie