Archive for Bolton Council

Summer fun in Bolton 2011

With the summer holidays on the way Bolton Council approached Portfolio for the third consecutive year to produce this year’s ‘Summer Fun in Bolton’ activity leaflets. The pocket sized leaflets deliver information regarding free activities and schemes across the entire borough. Due to the variety of activities provided by Bolton Council, 3 different versions of [...]

Walking the talk with Bolton Council

As part of our continuing relationship with Bolton Council, we were recently briefed to produce an Oral Blending document. The document is to be used by those working in early year’s education as a tool for their day-to-day resource library focusing mainly on aspects of speech and language. The document was also accompanied with a [...]

Producing Bolton Council’s CPD booklets PDQ

The CPD booklets focus on various areas of educational expertise and are designed to give all staff, including teachers and school governors’ access to events and training aimed at improving performance and enhancing their careers. The finished booklets featured attractive colour combinations and subtle illustrations, bringing together elements of functionality and design to give the [...]

Boxed off thinking for Bolton Council

For young people across the country, a lack of things to do can lead to a range of problems including anti-social behaviour. To tackle this issue locally, Bolton Council’s Children Services department came up with The Box initiative. As the name suggests, this involved the purchase of three box trailers that could be driven across [...]

Home of Bolton Council’s Fostering campaign

With more foster families needed nationwide, we helped do our bit in Bolton by creating a campaign for the council aimed at getting couples, single adults and families without younger to consider opening their homes and hearts to a child that really needs it. Pushing the message that as well as full support and training, [...]

Helping Bolton’s children in care to be heard

The Voice 4U initiative has been set up by Bolton Council to give children in care the chance to speak up and be heard about the issues affecting them and other in care. Encapsulating this in an identity, Portfolio have centred a suite of work featuring an illustrated megaphone. From flyers to hooded tops, badges [...]

Find your talent

You’re 15, school’s finished, your parents are working, what do you do? With politicians harping on about hoodies all the time, it’s easy to see why in a recent BBC survey only 13% of teenagers said they felt valued by society. So to show these young people that the world isn’t totally anti-teen, the Find [...]