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THIS WEEK JANE DISCUSSES THE FOLLOWING TOPICS Around the world Hot desking tool being tested Safety first Little Elephant art classes Focus on community Keeping the basics Our mantra

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Dear all, The new year is continuing at a pace although many of us across the group are experiencing Déjà vu, Seen that before or Ground Hog Day because of the continuing restrictions and our lives apparently on hold! But these restrictions have a purpose.  Whilst the vaccination programme taking place in every country gives […]

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As many of you already know, Stavroula Tzoumi is leaving Colart today (Friday 15th January) to start her maternity leave. I would like to thank Stavroula for all her hard work and wish her all the best for the new chapter in her life as a new mum. Covering Stavroula’s maternity leave, we are excited […]

Last month we ran a hackathon for people in the London office – this was a virtual event bringing everyone together remotely to work on the challenge of how we implement hot-desking and fully integrate remote working during 2021. Watch the video below. https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/9XCS5Q0H-7vW1MLVK.mp4  

Dear all, Knowing that many of you across the group are facing the great challenge of home-schooled children, I mentioned in the COVID update on 5 January about the potential of running a calendar of free art events for children via Zoom.  I am really pleased to say that, with the help of the Elephant […]

Dear all, Happy New Year to you all and I hope you managed to enjoy the Christmas period with your direct family.  I also hope you found time for a well-earned rest, especially yesterday, with the Colart Day. Sadly, the virus did not rest over the period, and we are continuing to see cases at […]

Dear all, As the year draws to a close, we sadly see lockdowns return to control the second wave of COVID which is hitting us with a vengeance.  Whilst hope rests on the vaccine, with the UK becoming the first western country to deploy a COVID-19 vaccine, we cannot ignore the continued dangers. Coming after […]

CEO Dennis van Schie hosted the last town hall meeting for this year on Thursday 17th December. The special guests were all the GLT, including Jonathan, Jane, Bruno, Dominique, Gail, Richard and Toby. The town hall focused on key achievements throughout the year and importantly recognising everyone’s contribution to a challenging but successful year. Dennis […]

In recognition of some past challenges that users have experienced when changing their network passwords, Tech Support has introduced a new and more straightforward way of making password changes. This replaces the previous process and is now the preferred approach when you have 1. forgotten your password or 2. your password has expired. A video […]

At the beginning of the year, we published an article that highlighted the launch of a unique collaboration with art magazine, InsideArt and Lefranc Bourgeois, as one of the many activations included in the brand’s 300th anniversary. The collaboration included a year full of different activities and culminated in a two-week artist residency hosted at […]

The newly appointed commercial director to Elephant, Karen Spinner recently presented a global live stream to Colart employees, aimed at providing an informed and educational overview of the business plus initiatives included the 2021 strategy. The mission statement described Elephant as “a dynamic D2C platform designed to turn an engaged community into repeat consumers of […]

Dear all, As we approach the end of the year and we hope for a new year free from COVID, there is one subject that we know that we will not be free from and that is Brexit. The UK as we know is in the process of exiting the EU and regardless of what […]