Keeping Business Local

Two businesses based in West Sussex have teamed up with a local housing association to provide support for a brand new service.

Handcross based Storm Creative Partnership and Lifestyle Ford have been involved with Saxon Weald’s latest initiative, HOMEFIX – a repairs and maintenance service – with Horsham based Lifestyle Ford supplying a fleet of vehicles and Storm designing the artwork for the striking livery.

Just launched, HOMEFIX has been set up in order to provide repairs to Saxon Weald homes. The maintenance vehicles have hit the streets this week and people around Horsham have, no doubt, already noticed the green and yellow painted vans.

“That was the goal”, explains Matt Saunders from Storm. “It’s a serious service keeping the Saxon Weald homes safe and sound and we wanted our designs to stand out from the crowd. We have worked with Saxon Weald on previous projects and its service is unique so the design had to reflect this.”

Collaborations between local businesses are good news for Horsham’s economy says Lifestyle Ford managing director, Peter Isted:

“With all the doom and gloom in the news, it’s important to maintain links with local businesses and create new partnerships like we have with Saxon Weald. This was good for business and we hope to continue working with Saxon Weald and our other local fleet partners in the future.”

The fleet of HOMEFIX vehicles is made up of four Ford Connects and 12 Ford Transit vans – each sporting the clean-cut Storm designed logo.

Saxon Weald is a housing association that owns and manages more than 5000 properties across Sussex and Hampshire. The repairs and maintenance service will be brought in-house for the first time to provide quicker, wider and more flexible services to Saxon Weald customers. Also creating local labour opportunities, the service will be a beneficial change for both, the company and its customers.