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We've just been shortlisted for the Shell LiveWire entrepreneurial awards (the UK's ‘hottest young business competition'), and there's due to be a big gala in Manchester in May, where we'll have the chance to win a great prize - so obviously our fingers are well and truly crossed for that. The brand new issue of Aesthetica magazine (pictured below) has just come out too, and for the first time it's in full colour, and looks fantastic for it. It's also the first issue by

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I can't believe it's the fifth of March already! As usual I've been hugely busy. This week I've been preparing features and carrying out interviews for the next issue of Aesthetica, I've been interviewed myself as spokesperson for the York Literature Festival and I've been holding meetings to plan our new communications strategy. Last Monday I was on the Dragon's Lair panel, which was a competition being run between ten York schools, both primary and secondary.

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In my last post we were just about to move office, well that has happened and I'm now sitting here with a splendid view of the river Foss and York Minster. Our new office is fitted with marble work surfaces and we've just bought all new (and very comfortable) leather chairs. The office is really spacious and I've also invested in five new PCs. We've found that productivity has increased by at least 100%, as things actually work. We have access to an IT team, which makes

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Since Christmas we've been really busy - lots has been happening at Aesthetica, so where to start? Well, we have just employed our new full-time Development Officer, who will be dealing with our growth, sales and marketing. She's very good and has been a great asset to our team. We received our proofs of the latest issue back from our printers with no problems, so that's now done and dusted. We worked with quite a few people on this one, and included in this issue are - the

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The past week has been hectic (as usual) with a big deal being struck that will see Aesthetica Magazine stepping up a gear in 2007. Firstly, however, the Skipton conference I mentioned in my last entry took place on Thursday and was a great success. We ran the event with NYBEP and 300 young people from six schools. There were a lot of young people running around very excited because they weren't at school for the day. I ran a workshop on 'Getting Your Ideas Down on

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