Save £20 - Complimentary ticket and chocolates from A2i

Click the link below for a free ticket to visit A2i at the Hospitality Show on
19th-21st January at the NEC. We will be exhibiting our Braille and tactile signage, Braille menus and Large Print menus and there will be special discounted packages available only to visitors to the show - saving you up to 20% on our products and services.

Come and chat to A2i staff on stand 2227 in the Interiors, Exteriors and Tableware section and try a free Braille chocolate. Also, if you enter our prize draw, you could win the UK’s first Braille chocolate egg.

Click here to get your free ticket for this event.

If you would like to arrange to meet with one of our staff during the show please email alice.bishop@a2i.co.uk and we will schedule a suitable appointment.

National Braille Week

4th January 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille (the inventor of Braille) and also marks the start of National Braille week 2009 which runs until January 10th.

We would like to take this opportunity to help our customers understand more about the importance and uses of Braille, and its production:

• Please click here to learn more about some of the basics of Braille – how the dots work, how it is transcribed, and how it is printed (Article 2).
• Click here to read an interview with a Braille teacher who became blind, and learnt Braille, later in life - this article featured in our newsletter quite a while ago and was very popular with our readers (Article 1).
• To read a fascinating article by David Blunkett, talking about his experiences, and why Braille is so vital for him and other visually impaired people, please go to this link.

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