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Posters for Jack’s big day are ripped down

10:30am Wednesday 14th September 2011

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ORGANISERS behind a charity fun day to help a disabled toddler were left distraught after hundreds of posters to promote the event were torn down.

Alan Read and Karen Bartlett, who run Swindon Karting, spoke to Swindon Council’s planning department before putting up about 300 posters to promote a fundraiser at the end of the month for two-and-a-half year old Jack Pike’s life-changing operation in America.

But over the weekend the posters were taken down by the council – and now, after two days of negotiations, the council’s highways department has given permission for some of them to go back up.

Karen Bartlett, company secretary of Swindon Karting, said: “We’ve been told we can put 100 up across the whole borough. It’s soul destroying because the ones that were ripped down are ruined. we have a few left so we’ll have to use them but time is running out.

“The most important thing is to have the day for Jack. whatever happens that day will go ahead.”

there will be karting, a rodeo bull, bouncy castle and face painting at Swindon Karting on September 25 from 10am until late to raise funds for Jack.

the toddler, of Penhill, has spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which means the muscles in his legs do not work properly. But a procedure, known as selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) could change that.

Instead of waiting to see whether the NHS will fund the £40,000 operation, which was only available in America until it launched at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital earlier this year, the Pike family have started raising the funds to pay for the surgery in Missouri just in case.

Karen added: “The council need to make people aware of exactly what they need to do. What they should say is ‘yes, you have spoken to me but you need to speak to this person too’. they are not doing that, it is so unfair.”

Businesses helped Swindon Karting with the printing but Alan and Karen paid for some of them to be laminated, which cost them more than £100.

a Swindon Council spokesman said: “We advised Swindon Karting their signs qualified for deemed planning consent as the signs were advertising a charitable event, however, we also pointed out they needed similar consent from our highways department.

“Unfortunately, it would appear Swindon Karting were unable to contact the right department and therefore did not get the relevant highways consent. As a result of this, our enforcement team removed a large number of the signs following a complaint from a member of the public.

“We have since spoken to Swindon Karting and have resolved the matter. we have made arrangements to return the signs that were taken down.”

Anyone who can help Swindon Karting print new posters or who wants more information about the event should phone 01793 814340.

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Signs and banners used for advertising make the world go around. You can not leave your place of living without seeing many different types of these products. they are universally used by small and big businesses to advertise to the general public. I can not remember the last time I left my house and did not see a custom banner or sign promoting a business and/or product, and I bet you can not either. Items such as custom banners and signs, billboards, feather flags, and accessories like sign stands are known as large format advertising. this type of advertising is very effective because it has the ability to stick out in the minds of the general public much the way TV commercials and websites do. if you think about the town you are living in now or the town you grew up in, I bet there is a billboard or an old plotted vinyl custom banner that has been in the community since before you can remember. Items like these have the ability to take on a life of their own. when a piece of advertising is able to do that it can not help but bring in business. There is an old saying that goes something like this, “if everyone jumped off the Brooklyn bridge, would you jump too”? of course you wouldn’t, but that same logic can not be applied to the advertising world. if every business is using some sort of custom banners and signs, then there must be a pretty good reason for it. the reason is that it works, and has been proven so time and time again. in world of advertising, if everyone is using something that works it would be wise for you to do the same to help your own business.