M a r s h team wo rk a The in-house journal of the Marshall Group of Companies New Year 2010 l l Chairman’s comments Awards, followed by our Long Service members of staff on the payroll on that date. Awards, and then by a very special Dinner On 5th November we sponsored the for the 25 families which had each achieved Marshall of Cambridge Centenary Fireworks over 100 years of service, an enormous on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, achievement of which we are hugely proud. attended by the Mayor of Cambridge and many other dignitaries and Cambridge Next came a charity dinner attended by families, some of whom wrote in to me and over 700 of our business partners, to the local paper saying they were the best suppliers and customers which, following a Cambridge fireworks ever. really kind and personal video message from His Royal Highness the Prince of The real icing on the cake came on I write this with 2009 coming to a Wales, entertainment was provided by November 19th when we received the very close and would like to share with Jamie Cullum and Kit and the Widow. rare honour of a special centennial visit to you the huge pride which I feel £140,000 was raised for the Prince’s Trust our business by Her Majesty the Queen personally, and for all of us in our which will enable budding entrepreneurs to accompanied by His Royal Highness The Group, on the resounding triumph of be given the opportunity similar to that Duke of Edinburgh, who both met a number given to my grandfather 100 years ago. of our employees, saw a range of our our Centennial Year. So many nice The following evening 1500 of our company activities, and signed our Visitors’ Book. things have been said about the colleagues were given a fantastic display Her Majesty was presented by Henry Catlin company and about our people and by Britain’s Got Talent winners, Diversity, with a ‘cold chisel’, which is the hallmark of I feel really proud of all of us. which was then followed by films of the apprenticeship training. Before departing company activities and achievements with in our Executive Aviation Citation, Her During the course of the year, we have not sections devoted to apprenticeships, Majesty planted a tree, was presented with only continued to make splendid training and our employees’ involvement in a gold Centenary Medal and unveiled a achievements throughout the business but the local community. This was compèred plaque which now sits proudly on the right we have received a number of special beautifully by Natasha Kaplinsky and hand side of the entrance to our office. It accolades, including the Cambridge News afterwards I was delighted, together with was a memorable and special once-in-a- Business Excellence Award, the Aircraft my fellow Directors and Senior lifetime visit of which we are very proud. Owners & Pilots Association Sword of Management, to don aprons and serve food Honour for the best aerodrome for general and drink to all those who were attending. It has been in so many ways a wonderful aviation in the UK, a special engraved glass and proud year for me, for the Company bowl from Barclays Bank to celebrate our This led up to our magnificent Open Day on and for all members of the wider Marshall 100 years of banking with Barclays, and a Sunday September 20th attended by over family who have been able to see just what magnificent centennial album from 15,000 employees and their families who has grown from the amazing enterprise of Bidwells, as well as some individual awards were able to watch one of the best air our founder, David Marshall, which was for Iain Young, our Chief Test Pilot, from the shows ever laid on in Britain, bringing subsequently enhanced by the equally Guild of Air Pilots & Navigators and the together aircraft from the earliest days of amazing vision, determination and Royal Aeronautical Society in addition to the company right through the ages, leadership of my father. They would both his award of the MBE, recognising his including the iconic Vulcan, which, have been delighted and proud. many flying achievements for the Company. incidentally, we had got back onto the Civil Register to enable it to carry out its Thank you very much for all that you have After raising our Centennial Flag at 8.00 am displays, and the Red Arrows at their very done for the company. I am enormously on a cold New Year’s Day, on which we best against a bright blue sky. All the proud of all our employees and the were also able to celebrate the award of airfield hangars and aprons were alive with amazing things which, collectively, we do the OBE to Grahame Nix in the New Year’s orchestras, bands, displays of some of our for the company and the many Honours List, the celebrations started for activities, a magnificent funfair, and a wide communities in which our businesses are me on 30th March when I was given a range of food stalls. It was a wonderful based. My thanks too go to all those who Tiger Moth flight by the Cambridge Flying atmosphere and I was privileged to be made the year such a success. Group to commemorate the 60 years since given a brief flight in an Auster, a type of I first gained my Private Pilot’s Licence in a aircraft which in the late 1950’s I had flown Our task now is to dedicate ourselves to Tiger Moth. The pace accelerated with our on numerous occasions including trips to ensuring a great start to our second century Annual General Meeting when I had the Morocco and Portugal. through continuing to provide outstanding huge surprise of being given an exciting service to all our civil and military customers, flight in a de Havilland Vampire to remind October 1st was the Centenary of the both local and international. me of the very happy time which I spent founding of the Company which we marked flying Vampires in the Royal Air Force by raising our company flag at mid-day with a I wish you all a very happy, healthy and during my National Service. flypast by our excellent Cambridge Aero Club prosperous 2010. formation team. The Mayor of Cambridge The celebrations really got underway in played Highland Cathedral on his bagpipes September with our Apprentice Awards, and I was able to present the first of the followed by our new Learner of the Year Centenary medals which were given to all 2 Teamwork New Year 2010 Stop Press...! Arise Sir Michael......... Mr Michael Marshall became Sir Michael Marshall when he was knighted in the New Year Honours List on 1st January 2010. Sir Michael said “I thought that Her Majesty The Queen’s visit to our Cambridge Airport activities in November was the icing on the cake for our celebrations to mark the hundredth year since my grandfather founded our company in 1909, so for me this is truly and literally a wonderful decoration.” Sir Michael added “I now have a challenging task to live up to this exciting honour which is a great tribute to all the great people who are working in, or have worked in, our group of companies on behalf of our customers.” Surprise reception for the Chairman On Tuesday 15th December, following a meeting between Sarah Moynihan and two other business professionals in Cambridge, a surprise reception was laid on to mark the Company’s centenary and thank Mr Michael Marshall for his own contribution to the success of Cambridge, as well as thanking him for the many successful events he has laid on throughout the centennial year. The goal was to gather together 100 of the leading ladies of Cambridge, from the business arena and other sectors. This all came together in the Group’s Jaguar showroom and the surprise held right up until Michael walked into the showroom – he thought he was going to attend a Jaguar customer event in the showroom! The event was a huge success and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the chairman was among the last to leave! The picture shows Michael Marshall with many of the ladies who gathered to honour him, in the Jaguar showroom. ... and finally The final event of the year took place on Thursday 31 December 2009, when Mr Michael Marshall took part in a small ceremony to lower the Centenary Flag from the flagpole in front of the Control Building for the very last time. Immediately prior to the lowering of the flag a Marshall Aerospace Piper Aztec, piloted by Group Support Executive Terry Holloway performed a flypast which was followed by a spectacular firework display over the airfield. As the flag was lowered the Mayor of the City of Cambridge, Cllr Russ McPherson, played his bagpipes to herald in an exciting new year and new decade. At the end of the ceremony, Mr Michael Marshall proposed a toast to the next one hundred years of Marshall using suitably non-alcoholic sparkly! World’s Biggest Coffee Morning On Friday 25th September, the Company once again joined in with Macmillan Cancer Support 2009 Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. As always, the organisation for this task was led by Diana Petchell with a ‘cast of thousands’ of supporters and helpers who baked cakes, served coffee, sold raffle tickets and generally brought it all together on the day. Hundreds of Marshall Group employees on the Cambridge site were able to join in, donating money to this worthwhile cause in return for a cup of coffee and a slice of cake and/or a raffle ticket.