Taking time out to celebrate Olympic torch as it passes through West Yorkshire

Photo call: The Ferno team celebrate the Olympic torch as it passes through West Yorkshire

We celebrated the arrival of the Olympic torch as it passed through Batley and all the Ferno team shut up shop for the morning  to let 80 colleagues see the Olympic torch and celebrated afterwards with a barbeque attended by paralympian Paul Cartwright and Mike Wood MP for Batley and Spen.
Paul, of Liversedge, was guest of honour at Ferno and enjoyed a barbequed meal – cooked by the senior management team - with staff and Mike at the company’s head office.
Ferno managing director Jon Ellis said: “It’s not every day the Olympic torch comes through West Yorkshire and we thought it would be a good idea to give colleagues the day off to watch the procession and show our support for Team GB.
“It was also great to have a local paralympian like Paul Cartwright join us for the day as well as our local MP Mike Wood.”
Paul is a former British champion in wheelchair racing at 100, 200 and 400 metres and competed for Great Britain at the Paralympic games in 1984. More recently, he swapped disciplines and has taken up power lifting.
In the picture below you can see, left to right, Mike Wood MP, Ferno Managing Director Jon Ellis, Operations Director Alan Clarke, Financial Director Margaret Merkle, Sales & Marketing Director Simon Shepherd and Paul Cartwright.