Marketing Resource
A resource that will be of interest to Salon Management students for the Marketing Management module is now available in the Non-Athens resources. Marketing Mentor is a toolkit of best practice for marketing students and professionals, providing practical knowledge and advice.

New DVD at Richmond House Library

Now available to watch at Richmond House Library is Success Tips for Reflexologists, a DVD that includes advice on how to cope with difficult clients, what to say and what not to say, and awareness of client dependency.

New Sports Therapy Book
There are now copies available of the 3rd edition of Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness and Performance, Plowman, at Richmond House Library.

May Day Holiday
Richmond House Library and Summer Row Library will both be closed next Monday, May 3rd, for the May Day Bank Holiday

New Books at Richmond House Library

Copies of How to Be a Successful Therapist: a guide to starting and running your own complementary therapy business (2nd edition)

and Start and Run A Successful Beauty Salon:

a comprehensive guide to managing or acquiring your own salon

are now available at Richmond House Library

New Level 2 Beauty Therapy Book
Copies of the new 2010 5th edition of Beauty Therapy: the foundations, Nordmann, are now in stock at Richmond House Library

Journals Area at Summer Row
If you've just returned from the Easter break and are intending to use the journals at Summer Row Library you will find that they are no longer next to the group work area on the ground floor. The journals have been relocated to the upper floor of the library, to enable upgrading of the group work area.

FHT 2010 Conferences
Complementary Therapies and The Pregnant Client is a one-day conference taking place at The King's Fund, London, on 24 September 2010. and will address the latest research, best practice and issues for therapists practising or considering practising on pregnant clients.
Sports Therapy: Treating the Elite is a one-day conference exploring the use of sports therapy by elite sportspeople and featuring the latest in injury recognition and treatments. The conference will be held at Coventry University on 20th November 2010.
For further details see the FHT (Federation of Holistic Therapists) website.

New Books in Stock at Richmond House
Copies of Fitness and Health, Sharkey, and Clinical Sports Medicine, (revised 3rd edition) Khan, are now available at Richmond House Library.

Afro Hair and Beauty Live

The 2010 Afro Hair and Beauty Live event will be taking place on Sunday 30th and Monday 31st May (bank holiday day) at the Business Design Centre, London.There will be hair and fashion shows, free seminars and workshops, competitions, hair products, colour cosmetics, skincare and the chance to get a make over. Student tickets cost £8.00 on the door (you'll need student ID) or you can book online now and pay £12.00 for two regular- priced tickets for the price of one, by following the link to the event website

Beauty UK 2010
Just a reminder that the Beauty UK and Holistic Health events will be taking place at NEC Birmingham on Sunday 25th and Monday 26th April. There will be free entry for qualified therapists, salon and spa owners, nail technicians and students. See the BeautyServe website for more details.

The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery
A tv programme that might be of interest is showing tonight (12 April) at 10:00pm - 11:05pm on Channel 4- The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me. This includes a man who has spent the last 20 years undergoing surgery so he can resemble a tiger.