It’s now the end of February and our children are all enjoying their half terms (while we struggle to fit in our work commitments around them!). We’re fully aware that their trainers are too small and their pencil case missing essential supplies and realise that this weekend will be our last chance to get them equipped to return to school. And can you imagine it; hundreds or more panicked parents all shopping for their children’s supplies on the very same day, it would be hell on earth! Online shopping is always the way forward, and when it comes to stationery, you need look no further than Office 365!

We provide office supplies and stationery to more than 50,000 customers, from government departments, public companies to small home office businesses. We even supplies products to individuals like yourselves, simply looking to stock up your home and school essentials! Our selection shocks all, covering cleaning and janitorial supplies, mops, vacuum cleaners, cleaning products and soaps, teas, coffees, snacks and sweets! We sell machinery such as printers and scanners, shredders and copiers, along with supplies such as ink cartridges, ribbons, shredder oil and binding supplies. All of our customers are important to us and receive the lowest possible prices on the UK web, guaranteed!

However sometimes we like to take it that one step further, reducing our already low prices to bring you special offers! At the moment we have a fantastic special offer on an essential which is very beneficial to your children’s education, and study, particularly with approaching exams! Our Staedtler Textsurfer Classic Highligters featured are a colourful pencil case filler you simply cannot refuse!

• Highlighter with large ink reservoir for extra-long highlighting performance
• Inkjet safe – all colours do not smudge inkjet print-outs
• Lightfast pigment ink
• Fast drying
• Contains three yellow and one each of pink, orange, violet, blue and green
• Line width: 2.5-4.7mm
• Assorted
• Wallet of 8 (6 + 2 FREE‼)
• RRP – £10.36 – Our price – Just £5.36 inc VAT!

With offers like this, you simply cannot refuse, plus if you bulk your order to £40, well deliver it to you free, NEXT DAY (orders before 4pm weekdays only)! Simply add to cart and proceed to checkout, unless of course you’d like to continue shopping. If you need any help or assistance at all, please feel free to call our friendly team on 0870 766 1624 and we’ll be more than happy to help.

From all of us here at Office 365, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! This will be the last blog from me to you, until next year, but what a year we’ve had this year! After re-launching our site, we’ve been dedicated to giving each and everyone one of our products their own little write up so that our customers have all the information they need at their finger tips. Of course this is an exceptionally long task and it is not yet complete, however you will already be enjoying the new easier to navigate site and as ever would love to hear your feedback.

Today is your absolute last chance to order from us for delivery before Christmas, however we absolutely must stress that for all important, urgent orders, please call our team on 0870 766 1624 to check stock availability; we absolutely hate to disappoint our customers! If you’re a first time buyer at Office 365, we’re offering you a very festive 10% of your order, plus for all our customers, if your order comes to more than £40, we’ll give you free, super fast, delivery!

Hurry, while stocks last, we’re giving you tonnes of tasty treats! Until December 30^th we’re giving away these chocolatey treats free, on all orders over £60! They’d make perfect festive treats around the office, or alternatively, take them home to fill your children’s stockings! This is just our way of saying thank you for sticking with us, through site re-launch and all!

Speaking of Christmas, we have so many great stocking filler ideas here! From calculators to pencil sharpeners, staplers and hole punches, you can even find a fantastic assortment of artist & graphic supplies! Is the recipient and organised stationery fiend or maybe they’re the arts and crafts type? We have chocolate and sweets, Christmassy biscuits and more so that you can give those tasty festive treats, these are also popular for boosting morale to those working in the office over the Christmas period! Fill their stockings with erasers and correction fluid, tapes, pens and pencils; when one door opens so do many more! Within pens you’ll find those fancy types in chrome, metal and gold, highlighters in wallets and desk sets, fineliners  for kids and more! Our snazzy gel pens are great for kids who want to accessorise their pencil cases with the coolest stationery, but there’s so many more, just come along and see for yourselves!

So a very Merry Christmas from us all here and a Happy New Year, when our site will be complete with an abundance of information on all of your favourite products! Remember to call for urgent requirements and remember to tell us what your little ones thought of their Santa treats!

We have just 10 days to go before Christmas, don’t you think it’s time you get into action! Those ideas you’ve been planning, now’s the time to put them into motion. Many people use Office 365 are their go to for Christmas presents; as the cheapest online office and stationary retailer (backed up with our price match guarantee), we have a huge assortment of different products which are not just aimed at offices.

We have a great selection of surprising items such as artists supplies; pastels, watercolours, organisers, headphones, DAB radios, tins of biscuits, special chocolates and more. Many come to us to create their own Christmas hampers.

Here at Office 365 we have all the tools you could need to make a stylish, exciting and fun Christmas hamper for just about anyone! Simply follow the steps below.

1)      Choose your box – We have so many different boxes to choose from here, in various strengths and sizes. All you have to do is pick the most appropriate size and strength for your Christmas hamper.

2)      Case sealing tape – Now that you have your box, you must seal the bottom for protection. You may be packing some heavy items into your box, so make sure you apply appropriate tape to add strength and durability.

3)      Find your protective foam filling – Choosing a loose filling such as this one means that the recipient can rummage around in the box, easily retrieving whatever gifts lye hidden inside! You know that your purchases are safe and well hidden too!

4)      Choose your gifts! – Now for the fun part, you can have your own bit of fun, sifting through our site choosing yourself some colourful little treats and surprises for the recipient.

Popular hamper choices include mechanical pencils, electric pencil sharpeners, chocolate biscuits, good tea, correction fluid, highlighter pens and felt tipped pens, diaries, calendars, staplers, chocolates, printer cartridges and so much more! Take a look through our site; you may well be pleasantly surprised at our staggering selection of everyday items and fabulous gifts!

Remember, right now for first time customers, we’re offering a generous 10% off their orders! And then to add that further little treat, we’d also like to throw in some freebies. Until the 30^th December, we’re giving away free chocolates for all orders over £60!

Never underestimate the importance of a highlighter! After having kitted out my eldest daughter for starting senior school recently; pens, pencil case, pencils, geometry set, calculator, eraser, correction fluid, pencil sharpener, colouring pencils and so on – I soon realised I’d missed one vital tool. Within days she was bringing home letters with important dates to remember, numerous events throughout each week which between us, we needed to keep on top of. But alas, we missed important dates and events left right and centre. She even turned up to her first school trip without the essential wellington boots! Aside from being thoroughly embarrassing for her; with each missed event I felt like a complete failure!

With a new homework diary to keep on top of and 2-3 pieces of homework to complete per day; due by dates and reminders – starting senior school is quite a jump from primary! Stressed by it all, between us we realised we needed to get more organised and decided that it could all be so much easier with the use of highlighter pens! And how right we were too; with these simple, brightly coloured fluorescent pens we were suddenly able to highlight significant information and dates. All those important letters pinned to the fridge and clipped up on string in her bedroom could first be skimmed and highlighted so that any important information would stand out for quick reference. It really was as simple as that, we no longer forget dates or vital details and I can hold my head up high at the school gates!

We recommend the featured Staedtler Textsurfer Classic Highlighters featured.

• Highlighter with large ink reservoir for extra-long highlighting performance
• Inkjet safe – all colours do not smudge inkjet print-outs
• Lightfast pigment ink
• Fast drying
• Contains three yellow and one each of pink, orange, violet, blue and green
• Line width: 2.5-4.7mm
• Assorted
• Wallet of 8

With so many to recommend why did we choose these you may ask? Well this particular pack has a couple of very tempting incentives indeed! With a recommended retail price of £10.07, these are an absolute bargain at just £5.36 inc VAT! However the icing on the cake is not only the fact that they’re basically half price, but the two extra highlighters we throw in for free! Normally a pack of 6, these are temporarily on offer as a pack of 8; 2 extra yellows for the same price! Not bad at all, and you can get your hands on them with next day delivery too, simply order online or call us on 0870 766 1624 where one of our team can answer any of your questions and can help you with placing orders!

For most of you, this is your final chance to get your supplies in ready for the new school term! You’ll need colouring supplies and desk tides, paper, glue, staplers, staples, erasers, sharpeners, OHP film, paper clips, sticky tape, scissors, pens; the list is endless and that’s just for the classroom! For the school office you’ll need to stock back up on ink cartridges for your printers and fax machines, rubber stamps, telephone message pads and so on. But what all the kids leaving their primary schools are preparing for is of course their top school supplies!

They’ll need a list of supplies that include; pencils, pens, colouring supplies, geometry sets, rulers, erasers, sharpeners, calculators, binders and pockets, highlighters and so on. Luckily Office 365 are your one top shop and so rather than trawling though your high street shops for your long list of supplies, try finding everything you need here! Plus, if this is your first order with us, we’ll give you 10% off. Coupled with our Price Match Guarantee, you’re sure to find the best deal going with us!

One of the most wanted top school supplies in demand right now is the binder. Also highly beneficial for those starting college or 6^th form, the binder is an essential tool for storing class work, case studies, coursework, homework, artwork, and so on. To narrow down the incredible list of options for you, we’ve picked out one which seems to tick all the most essential boxes. We needed to look at first and foremost, value for money, then durability as we wouldn’t want to recommend one which will fall apart and finally capacity. We found this;

The Elba Index Ring Binder featured most certainly has it all, and more!

• Extra wide covers enable the file to be used in conjunction with dividers or punched pockets without them protruding
• Four D-ring binding mechanism with 40mm capacity!
• Clear ticket holder on spine for easy identification of contents
• Full clear pockets to front and back covers
• Size: A4
• White
• Packed 4
• Just £41.83 inc VAT!

This robust pack of binders will hold all your punched pockets, indexes, tabs and a huge abundance of paperwork effortlessly whilst allowing full personalisation. Coming in packs of 4 means that you can have one for each subject, or one for each child! This one certainly gets our approval, however there are plenty where that came from. So for a full list of available binders, come and explore our world of stationery at Office 365 UK!

Not long now until the new school term starts and it’s not just the kids who need to get organised! As a teacher, professor or lecturer, you’ll need to make sure you have all the right supplies to perform your job well. This will mean checking current stock levels and checking the condition of the supplies you currently have. Do you have enough flip chart pads? Are you in need of whiteboard cleaner to refresh your boards for the new term? Have your whiteboard markers run dry? Maybe you need to replenish your OHP film stock or could you be ‘old school’ and require chalk? Whatever it is you need to get September off to a flying to start, you’ll find it here at Office 365!

Take our Whiteboard Markers for example; we have a whole range of different brands available such as Bic, Paper Mate, Sharpie and Staedtler, however the widest choice comes from our Bic brand with an assortment of colours such as black, green, blue, red and assorted packs. You will also find bullet and chisel tips, as well as retractable and low odour options. All of our whiteboard supplies are available at the cheapest UK prices on the net, we’re so confident of this in fact that we back this up with our price match guarantee!

Not only do we boast the widest choice and the smallest prices, but we can assure you that all orders placed before 4:30pm will be despatched for next day UK delivery! Please note that for urgent orders we recommend you phone to check stock! Now accepting Pay Pal for your added security, Office 365 are offering all our new customers and added 10% off their first orders with us, plus any orders placed between the 27^th August 2012 and the 4^th September 2012, that exceed £60 are illegible for a free gift! Please see our home page for more information!

Remember, Office 365 are also the favourite for stocking up on all your children’s stationery supplies too. So when the time comes and your child is moving up into top school, make sure they have all the essential stationery to get them off to a good start. Check list includes:

• Calculator
• Colouring supplies
• Pen (and spares!)
• Eraser & correction fluid
• Pencils
• Sharpener
• Ruler
• Geometry set
• Compass
• Binder (and pockets)
• Lined & plain paper
• Highlighters
• Stapler (not essential)

It’s that time again! We’re now well into the school summer holidays and with just 2 weeks left to go, it’s high time we get organised! The kids will be needing all sorts before they return to their schools and those of them starting school or moving up into their next school will need a whole range of different equipment to get them off to the right start. With my own daughter moving up to secondary school, I feel well equipped to advise which stationery items will be needed for those in the same position. Please see the list below for a checklist of what to get over the next two weeks!

• Pens – As my daughter’s new headmaster advised during her open day at her new school, pack two! One pen just isn’t enough; loose it and your new teacher will be highly annoyed! Always pack a spare pen! Worry not, we have plenty of cheap pens here at Office 365, including highlighters which are a must have for those moving up to top school!
• Pencils – For artwork and drafts, a pencil is essential for students of all ages. Choose from a selection of wood case and mechanical pencils here in a range of shades.
• Colouring Supplies – Unsure of what was best to buy, I purchased both colouring pencils and felt pens for my daughter; or rather she did with her birthday pennies! This way they are equipped for every scenario. Choose from a full spectrum colouring supplies here!
• Correctors & Erasers – Always make sure your child is equipped with an eraser! Given their tiny price, it is also advisable to provide a spare. For those moving up into secondary school, it is also advisable to provide correction fluid as children work more with ink and must produce neat written essays.
• Pencil Sharpener – If you’re going to provide pencils and colouring pencils, of course they will need some means in which to sharpen them! Choose from a range of manual, mains or battery powered items here.
• Ring Binder/Lever Arch File – Aimed more at children in secondary school, the binder means that any coursework and essays written by students can be kept safe, neat and organised inside a binder. Choose from a rather extensive range here!
• Plastic Pockets – If you’re going to purchase the binder, you’ll also benefit from choosing plastic pockets. Perfect for separating work as well as protecting it, plastic pockets also mean that there is no need to punch holes into your papers! With A3, A4 and A5 varieties here, you’re sure to find exactly what you need!
• Ruler – A rather obvious one, but often forgotten, the ruler is essential for children in education so that they are able to produce neat, perfectly straight lines and so that they are able to complete measurements in both mathematics and other areas such as design, art and graphics.
• Geometry Sets – Used in Mathematics, trigonometry, design and sometimes geography, a geometry set is essential for children moving up into senior school. We have a selection of individual items such as protractors, rulers, set squares, compasses and more, or alternatively, you can purchase the entire school set!
• Calculator – Of course, the oh-so-essential calculator. Now a required tool during GCSE examination, the calculator is used in all mathematics classes and is also useful in various other lessons too. Choose from our selection of handheld, desktop and scientific models here.

For a complete selection of stationery supplies, simply visit out site, however if you need any help or advise, please feel free to get in touch with a member of our team on 0870 766 1624.

The highlighter, an exceptionally misleading little stationery dude with more uses than you might at first think. We recently compiled a short survey to find out just what our typical British public did or do with theirs and were so intrigued by their answers that we thought we’d share them with you!

Here we were naturally assuming that everyone used theirs for their given purpose; to highlight text. This could be for a number of reasons, for reference at a later date, for study purposes, to indicate important text in documents and letters, to add importance to a complaint, to indicate areas for attention and so on. And how wrong we were, it seems the UK has more imagination than we anticipated! Ok, so maybe some are more sensible than others, however all are interesting in their own way and some could even be useful to you!

• Painting your nails
• Marking routes on maps
• Colouring strands of hair (typically blonde hair) for that ‘funky’ look (may we just add that we’re not condoning this…goodness knows what the effects of highlighter ink in your hair would be!)
• As a door stop (it seems highlighters are just the right size to wedge a door open – not sure Stabilo would be too impressed!)
• Drawing designs on t-shirts (although they claim to be water-based ink, can we just add that Office 365 are not claiming that the ink will wash off your clothes!)
• For marking bank notes (not too sure why you’d want to, maybe you can expand on this one for us?)
• For guilt free drawing on drunken friends (is this guilt free because it washes off? – Again, we don’t condone this!)
• For livening up trainers, colour in the laces (Ooookk….)
• 80’s make up (do I really need to add that we DO NOT condone this )
• Wall art – with the use of stencils
• Body tattoo’s (research needs to be made into the effects highlighter ink has on the body)
• An odd one, to open the catch on your windows (hmmm, I’m guessing this is to avoid messing up freshly painted nails?)
• Quick ruler

To try out these…erm…unique (?) ideas for yourself, you can buy discounted highlighters from us here at Office 365! We have a selection of blue highlighters, green highlighters, yellow highlighters, pink highlighters, red highlighters, orange highlighters, purple highlighters and assorted highlighters all available for just a snip of their usual price. What’s more, if you’d like to order in bulk (I don’t know, maybe you’d like to build towers out of them or something) we can offer you further reductions. Simply click ‘order in bulk’ at the product screen, or call us for a quote on 0870 766 1624. Have fun and happy highlighting!

Why not get in touch and tell us what you’ve done with yours!

The highlighter, where would we be without it? We use highlighters everyday to help in the home and in the office. Some people call it a lazy person’s tool; I call it an intelligent person’s tool! The highlighter can be used for a variety of different purposes, however is most commonly used to mark useful information in documents and books. The bright ink contained in highlighters is translucent but extremely visible due to its vibrant fluorescent or neon pigmentation. Most if not all highlighter ink is water-based and so can easily be washed out of materials and wiped clean from surfaces. Important information is highlighted in order to indicate key points, this can be beneficial recital reasons, study purposes or for highlighting information for other people’s reference.

The highlighter is a truly irreplaceable office, home and school item used to mark information on text, graphs, or charts that are reviewed in one to ones, meetings and to mark text that will be needed as reference for a later project. The editors ‘must have’ tool; there are too many times when it isn’t convenient to wade through an entire text to find pieces of relevant information, an editor will highlight essential text for emphasis saving much time and effort. Our highlighters are available in a wide variety of vibrant fluorescent colours, such as blue, green, pink, yellow and orange.

But which brand do we see first when we think of highlighters? Stabilo of course with the red swan inside a circle; Stabilo have become a household name recognised across the globe! Stabilo have been in production for more than 150 years, founded back in 1855, their name standing for colourful, ergonomic and ground-breaking products which offer not only superior quality, but innovative ideas and desirable products. Take for example the traditional Stabilo Boss Highlighters featured to the right. With its chisel tip and 2-5mm line width, it is the original highlighter with the distinctive non-roll shape and high fluorescence ink which goes on and on and on….

At Office 365 we have a huge variety of different highlighters are most popular at the moment being the blue highlighters and the green highlighters, why not take a look and discover which your favourite is!

STABILO GREEN

Stabilo want to preserve nature and the environment for subsequent generations. That’s why they continually optimise their production and working conditions. Stabilo pencils are continually adapted to the latest product requirements and are often pioneering for the entire industry. As a logical consequence of their environmentally aware approach, Stabilo have developed a dedicated product line: STABILO GREEN pencils are made from renewable woods, obtained from controlled, environmentally responsible forestry operations. By introducing their own range of sustainable, high-quality pencils made from renewable woods they are making an important step towards increasing environmental protection. In this, Stabilo works closely together with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which certifies the pencils in the STABILO GREEN line.

LIVING RESPONSIBLY

Every company bears a heavy responsibility – towards people and the environment. Because modern production processes use precious resources. That’s why Stabilo converted early on to environmentally friendly solutions. And they’re proud of the figures and results. At their international production sites, Stabilo pay painstaking attention to ensuring that they handle natural resources such as water and wood in a responsible way, save energy or consistently increase their recycling rates. They employ state-of-the-art technology to minimise the effects on the environment.

Just 10 days to go until Christmas and our little monkeys are expecting the magic of Santa! It’s not easy coming up with so many little stocking fillers year after year, making sure that they are unique, magical and suitable.  That’s why this week  we’re bringing you ‘Santa’s Useful Ideas’ where we find you a new little item you’re children would love to get their hands on, everyday.  Today’s item is highlighters for kids, an educational and exciting little stocking filler which they can actually get some use out of! Giving your child a highlighter allows them to ‘highlight’ text from their school work and studies that is important. It works in a kind of ‘bullet point’ way accept quicker! One educational idea which I remember doing myself is a kind of Sight word practice. Take a piece of text, this could be anything really, text from a book, their own school work etc, and using the highlighter, ask them to search for small words within the words in the text. For example, in the word ‘educational’ you can find ‘cat’, ‘on’ and ‘at’ hiding. They can highlight these small words using the highlighter pen.

Our Stabilo Swing Cool Highlighters are a fantastic idea for a stocking filler. Bright and cheerful, useful and educational, these assorted waterbased pens are the perfect treasure and don’t have to break the bank!

• Fluorescent marker for colouring, highlighting, marking
• Pocket clip
• Water-based ink
• Line width: 1-4mm
• Wallet of 6 – blue, green, yellow, royal blue, orange and lilac
• 22% off

Highlighters are an essential item in most school and educational situations. Students and pupils are occasionally required to use highlighters to mark references or important information on school work or papers used in the research and preparation of tests. Put a smile on your little ones faces and hide a little fluorescent treasure in their stockings this year.

STABILO GREEN

Stabilo want to preserve nature and the environment for subsequent generations. That’s why they continually optimise their production and working conditions. Stabilo pencils are continually adapted to the latest product requirements and are often pioneering for the entire industry. As a logical consequence of their environmentally aware approach, Stabilo have developed a dedicated product line: STABILO GREEN pencils are made from renewable woods, obtained from controlled, environmentally responsible forestry operations. By introducing their own range of sustainable, high-quality pencils made from renewable woods they are making an important step towards increasing environmental protection. In this, Stabilo works closely together with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which certifies the pencils in the STABILO GREEN line.

LIVING RESPONSIBLY

Every company bears a heavy responsibility – towards people and the environment. Because modern production processes use precious resources. That’s why Stabilo converted early on to environmentally friendly solutions. And they’re proud of the figures and results. At their international production sites, Stabilo pay painstaking attention to ensuring that they handle natural resources such as water and wood in a responsible way, save energy or consistently increase their recycling rates. They employ state-of-the-art technology to minimise the effects on the environment.