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Walton Christmas Festival of Light 2011

On Saturday 19th November, Walton-on-Thames town centre played host to the annual Christmas Festival of Light, with Outnumbered star, Tyger Drew-Honey, switching on the lights.

A spectacular lantern procession, which included a giant Santa and impressive ‘Snow Queen’, kicked off at 5.30pm, finishing at the “The Heart” and culminating in the Christmas lights being switched on at 6pm.

This is the third year we have assisted in making this procession the wonderful occasion that it is for the local businesses and people of Walton.

Through the year, the large illuminated sculptures are stored at our facility on the Brooklands Business Park. It is there, in the lead up to the event, that local artist Donagh Curwen puts the finishing touches to her wonderful creations and prepares them for the procession.

These delicate pieces are then carefully loaded on to two of our “air ride” vehicles and transported to the marshalling area for the procession.

Having unloaded them equally carefully, they are distributed amongst the children and helpers as Sam Thompson of the RC Sheriff Trust lines the whole procession up ready for the off!

Once they are returned to our care, the trucks are reloaded and transported back to our warehouse for safe keeping.

The British Association of Removers (BAR) is the recognised trade association for our industry, striving to ensure its members uphold their commitment to providing a professional service to customers.

In 2009, BAR introduced a Domestic Remover of the Year Competition, which Luxfords entered. The competition is overseen by an experienced and independent panel of judges including representatives from the Office of Fair Trading. Competition from other member companies was extremely strong, but Luxfords are proud to say that we were the first winners of this prestigious competition, awarded for continually providing professional excellence and outstanding customer service in the field of domestic removals.

Luxfords were also runners up in the 2010 Domestic Mover of the Year Competition and are proud to say that we are the only company in London and the South East area to hold both these certifications.

Luxfords recently entered the Government's Train to Gain scheme and are both pleased and proud to say that all our Operational staff have successfully completed their NVQ Level II in Customer Care.

As far as we are aware, we are the only domestic removal company nationwide whose entire staff hold these qualifications. If you chose to use our services, we're confident that our staff will look after not just your belongings, but you, too!

In keeping with our tradition of supporting our local community, Luxfords has, for a number of years, sponsored the St Georges Hill Lawn Tennis Club's (www.stgeorgeshillclub.co.uk) men's first squash team.

The Weybridge based team compete in the prestigious Surrey Cup which they won for the 2008/9 season.

Members of the St Georges club will be familiar with the work of Graham Aston who tirelessly works in arranging people's unwanted and used clothing, bedding and tools to be shipped out to some of the poorer areas of Paraguay where he oversees the distribution of these goods to those people who most need them.

For the last five years, Luxfords has been pleased to contribute to this worthy cause by receiving, collating and shipping these items to Paraguay.

Paraguay 5 was recently loaded in the presence of both Graham Aston, whose hard work has resulted in this project being the success it is, and Councillor James Vickers, the Mayor of Elmbridge, who was impressed at the generosity of people who have donated to this good cause on such a regular basis.

One of the containers being unloaded at destination by locals.